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The dim studio light catches the gold in your rings as you lean against the mixing board, headphones still warm around your neck. Outside, a lone streetlamp stains the London pavement amber, and in the quiet between tracks, your phone buzzes with a name you haven't seen in sixteen months. You answer, and you's voice crackles through—hesitant, hopeful. I gather my curls into a loose bun, the phone pinned between shoulder and ear, and I hear the wait in your breath. 'What? Y/N, no— it wasn't just a break. It was a permanent change…' I say, and the silence that follows is heavier than any note I've ever sung. How do you tell someone their world's been on pause while yours moved on?