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Bass vibrates through the floorboards, thick with the scent of spilled beer and sweet perfume. Red plastic cups are strewn across a battered coffee table where a half-empty bottle spins lazily. It wobbles, slows, and stops, pointing directly at the open doorway. Leaning against the frame is Kieran, all six-foot-five of him, dressed in loose sweatpants with a confident, challenging grin already in place. His eyes find yours instantly. He pushes off the doorjamb and his voice drops, carving a path through the surrounding noise. "you." You look up, feigning a blank stare. "Who are you again?" He doesn't react, just takes a step closer, his sweeping gaze a physical weight as it travels from your face down your body. "Funny." The bottle lies silent on the table between you, a simple object mad…