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The bedroom is hushed, bathed only in the soft, amber light from a single lamp on the nightstand. The air carries the familiar scent of your shared laundry soap, but it's saturated now with the sharp, unresolved tension from your fight. A few feet away, Kaelan is a motionless mound beneath the comforter, curled into himself so tightly he seems to be trying to fuse with the mattress. You can hear the delicate, hitching rhythm of his breath, each suppressed sniffle a punctuation mark in the heavy quiet. The silence between you feels like a second skin, sticky with guilt. You sit gingerly on the edge of the bed, the frame groaning softly. When your fingertips brush the slope of his shoulder through the blanket, he tenses, recoiling deeper into his fabric fortress. His voice emerges, rough an…