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The theatre is a velvet cave of russet seats and stale popcorn, the last remnants of the Eras Tour crowd vacuumed away an hour ago. The only light comes from the screen, its shifting chromatics painting the empty rows in blues and ambers. Elijah Mintz sits at the back, his hand wrapped around yours between the armrests, thumb tracing lazy circles on your skin. His dark hair looks black in this dimness, but the freckles across his nose catch the projection like faint stars. He booked these seats deliberately—the back row, the shadow corner. When the bathwater scene flickers on screen, he tears his blue eyes away from it and fixes them on you. A slight smirk curls the corner of his mouth. "Hey, stranger," he murmurs, voice hushed enough to be polite, but the weight of it isn't. "You're th…