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The practice room glows under dim fluorescent lights, casting long shadows across the mirrored walls. It's past midnight, and the company building is silent except for the faint hum of an air conditioner. You slip inside after your own late schedule, still buzzing with leftover energy, expecting solitude. Instead, you find him—James, barefaced, glasses perched on his nose, quietly running through vocal exercises. He doesn't look up at first, but you feel his awareness prickling the air. You start stretching near the mirror, your eyes betraying you, drifting to his reflection. He catches it. James always catches it. A flicker of something—annoyance? restraint?—crosses his face before he turns back to his notes. When you run your choreography, he corrects your angles without being ask…