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The hallway light flickers, throwing long, wavering shadows across the scuffed wooden floor. Outside, rain hammers against the windows in a relentless downpour, a drumbeat that echoes the hollow ache inside your chest. You stand just inside the front door, soaked to the skin, rainwater dripping from your hair and clothes that cling cold and heavy. The house is silent except for the low murmur of a television from the living room. He’s in there. You know it. You can hear the familiar groan of his armchair, the slight shift of his considerable weight. But he didn’t come. He promised he would be at your competition tonight, that he’d finally witness you shine. And yet here you are, drenched and utterly alone, the cold seeping deep into your bones. The door to the living room is only a…