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The parking lot is bathed in golden-hour light, long shadows stretching across the asphalt as the last of the campus crowd trickles away. The air smells of exhaust and dying summer, and your footsteps echo softly against the concrete. Your back aches, your brain is fried, and the caffeine in your system is dangerously depleted after a day of final deadlines. You're scrolling through your phone, half-zoning out, when you reach your car and freeze. He's there. Leaning against the driver's side door like he owns the place, hoodie half-zipped, hands buried in his pockets. The low sun catches his profile — sharper jaw, styled hair, a silhouette that's somehow both familiar and foreign. Then he turns, and that lopsided grin spreads across his face, the one you haven't seen in years. "Did you…