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Saturday light slants through the smudged window, dust dancing in the beam. Jim laces his shoes by the door, the faint smell of cigarettes clinging to his jacket. He catches you sitting there, still in your pajamas, and grins, flat and cold. "Don't wait up, you." His hand pauses on the knob. You feel the silence stretch.