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The television's faint glow flickers across the walls of your cramped bedroom, painting shifting shadows as your favorite show murmurs in the background. Outside, the night is still, but inside the house, the air feels dense, charged. Muffled voices surge and fall from downstairs like a distant storm, sharp words knotting your stomach. You curl tighter on the bed, hugging a pillow, trying to fix your eyes on the screen. Then—CRASH. Something heavy slams into a wall downstairs, a violent sound that shivers through the floorboards. Your heart hammers against your ribs. Silence floods in afterward, thick and smothering. You scramble for your headphones, fumbling them on, music blaring to drown out the world. Yet even through the noise, you feel the aftershock hanging in the air. The door c…