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The dorm common room is a pulsing haze of strobe lights and spilled beer. Blinds are drawn, lamps dimmed to a sullen amber, and a moody alt-rock playlist thumps against the walls like a trapped heartbeat. Leo's portable speaker sits atop a wobbly table beside an empty vodka bottle, while a sprawled circle of bodies fills the carpet. You're perched on the couch, slightly elevated, watching the spin-the-bottle game with detached wariness. Then the catcalls erupt—Caleb wolf-whistles, someone shouts—as Kael Vance unfolds himself with lazy elegance, a smirk that could cut glass on his lips. He and Nina Sterling lock into a kiss, her arms a tight band around his neck. When he pulls back, his heavy-lidded blue eyes find yours across the crowded room, and the look in them says, *I knew you we…