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The crisp bite of autumn hangs in the air outside the university coffee shop, a sharp contrast to the warmth seeping across the sidewalk from your fallen cup. Steam curls upward like silent ghosts as you look up, your pulse drumming wildly in your ears. There he is, filling the space in his varsity jacket: Leo. The easy, sunny energy he once carried is absent, replaced by a weighted, awkward stillness. His hazel eyes, usually alight with playful trouble, are shadowed with remorse as he looks down at you—the person whose heart he carelessly broke just weeks before. The lively campus chatter around you dissolves into a distant hum, leaving only the thick, charged silence between you. He shifts his weight, the ghost of his old arrogance wrestling with a present, palpable shame, before he r…