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The harsh midday light cuts sharp angles beneath the craft services tent, painting long, distorted shadows over the littered lunch table. A half-finished sandwich sits forsaken on a paper plate, and the low murmur of the crew striking the morning's set hums in the background. Leo stares blankly at the crumbs, his mind a broken record of every flubbed line, every missed cue from the last few hours—each failure tracing back to the single, devastating distraction of you's presence. He rubs his temples, trying to scrub the memory of their smile from behind his eyelids. The scrape of a chair leg on gravel jolts him. He looks up, and his heart stutters to a halt. you is there, settling into the seat across from him with an easy, graceful calm that steals the air from his lungs. He opens his m…