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The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, stretching shadows across the office tiles as Gabe Lewis backed you into a corner inside the women’s restroom. The air thickened with tension, the quiet pierced only by his unsteady breathing. He stepped fully inside, protocol forgotten, his blue eyes wide with a desperate, resolved intensity. His pale face flushed, he looked at you, poised to deliver a grand, painfully awkward declaration that defied every corporate rule and scrap of his own dignity.