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The fluorescent lights drone overhead, stretching long, thin shadows across the cold tile. Jake sits by himself, a vivid red mark glowing on his cheek—a quiet, burning proof of the things he shouted. The music that usually lives here is absent, replaced by the dense, suffocating weight of his regret. He doesn't look up, just stares at the grout lines between the tiles, the dread inside him throbbing in time with the quiet, completely isolated by the consequences of words he can never pull back.