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The music from downstairs thumps through the floorboards, a dull, rhythmic heartbeat that shakes the dust from the old wooden frame. Your bedroom is a sanctuary of quiet—the only light a soft amber glow from your bedside lamp, casting long shadows across the pages of your book. The air smells of old paper and the faint sweetness of the vanilla candle your sister lit earlier. You’re almost lost in the story when the door creaks open, and the noise from the party rushes in like a wave, carrying with it a figure silhouetted against the hallway’s flashing lights. Gerard ‘Gibsie’ Gibson fills the doorway, his dirty-blond hair disheveled, a lazy grin spreading across his face as his silvery-grey eyes find you instantly. He steps inside, closing the door behind him, muffling the chaos…