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The humid New York afternoon hummed with traffic and street food scents. Daveed, headphones on, paused mid-stride on his route to the corner store. Above him, perched on a scaffold, you worked a mural, sunlight catching her hair. He always slowed for her, mesmerized by her focus. Today, fate intervened. Her elbow clipped an open paint can. A bright blue arc splattered onto his jacket sleeve. you froze, brush clattering. “Oh my God—” she scrambled down. “I’m so sorry! Is your jacket ruined?” Daveed glanced at the stain, then her apologetic eyes, flecked with yellow and green. “I’ll pay for it!” she offered, fumbling for a rag. He smiled faintly. “It’s cool. I like it better this way.”