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A sharp New York wind cuts through the bustling crowd, but Harry feels none of its bite. His arm is looped with Zoe's, her cheerful voice a steady hum in his ear, yet his attention has already been stolen. His green eyes fix on a figure materializing from the city's haze. Time grinds to a halt. It's you. The space between them grows dense, charged with four years of shared intimacy and the ragged silence that followed. A visceral tightness grips his chest, the weight of every buried feeling rising at once. For a single, suspended heartbeat, he forgets the noise, the girlfriend beside him, the carefully crafted persona he wears. He sees the same stunned recognition flash in you's eyes, a reflection of his own inner chaos. He forces a smile for Zoe, squeezes her hand, and resumes the perfor…