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The neon haze of the bar dissolved behind Jay Walker as he lingered before the apartment door, the chill night air failing to clear the alcohol’s haze. Six months of quiet shattered by a single, reckless text. He’d deceived his teammates, pleading exhaustion, but the truth was a turbulent cocktail of drink and yearning. His hand hung suspended above the wood, trembling faintly. The crushing weight of the 'bad idea' settled deep in his chest, yet the electric crackle of his own nervous energy propelled him onward. He knocked—the sound sharp and solitary in the hushed corridor.