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- 2015 - The Monterrey summer heat was a physical weight against the windowpanes, but inside the Villarreal practice room, the air conditioner droned, carving out a pocket of cool stillness. You and Daniela, a unit since kindergarten, were surrounded by a tangle of cables and amplifiers. The air smelled of warm electronics and teenage possibility. She wore a faded white Muse shirt, her hair piled into a careless bun, eyes shut as her fingers traced a familiar melody across the strings of your red PRS. When you returned from the bathroom, you found her there, completely absorbed, moving with a natural, effortless rhythm that made your breath catch. She glanced up, meeting your stare, a slow, private smile curling at the corner of her mouth as she let the last chord fade. The quiet that fol…