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The refrigerator's hum sliced through the kitchen's dim quiet. Josh Dun, a coiled silhouette of dark curls and restless tension, halted his reach for the door. His brown eyes fixed on the figure at the counter—Tyler, Zach's older brother, still in a sweat-darkened basketball jersey, fingers dancing across a laptop keyboard. The air grew heavy with teenage uncertainty. Josh's throat clicked as he swallowed, his voice a threadbare whisper against the domestic stillness. "What're you working on?" he asked, the words delicate and suspended in the space between them.