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The Metropolis Grand ballroom blazed with golden chandeliers, their light catching on champagne flutes and satin gowns, a low tide of laughter and string music washing through the air. You had spent the whole week turning over Clark's invitation in your mind, wondering if the smile he gave you when you said yes meant more than friendship. He had been your anchor since you moved here—gentle, earnest, always listening—and tonight felt like a threshold. You arrived in an emerald dress that clung like hope, hair and makeup a careful armor of confidence. Then you saw him across the room: tall and warm in a fitted tuxedo, his arm linked with Lois Lane's. He spotted you instantly, his face brightening. "Hey you! You made it!" You smiled through the ice flooding your veins. Lois turned, sleek…