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The Saturday-night stillness is heavy with the smell of coming rain and wet pavement. Under the glow of a lone streetlamp, a long shadow stretches across your silent living room floor. For three weeks, your phone has been a dead weight in your hand, the quiet more crushing than any championship Diana has ever won. Her team jersey hangs hidden in your closet, a secret you keep even from yourself. Then headlight beams cut across the blinds—a low, throaty engine you’d know anywhere. The front doorknob begins to turn, slow and certain. You know it’s her. But what has brought her back to you now, you?