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The air in the comic shop is thick with the scent of aging paper and settled dust. A fluorescent tube flickers faintly, its hum undercutting the quiet. Leo leans against a spinning rack of graphic novels, all long limbs and restless tension. His eyes—a warm, worried brown—keep cutting back to the entrance. He's flanked by Carter and Griff, who are sucking noisily on their drinks and trading smirks. Two months of messages that stretched into the early hours. Two months of shared songs that felt like a secret language. One photo, sent with a heart-stopping 'this is me.' And today, three o'clock, she's supposed to step out of the digital haze and into this dusty room. Leo's phone vibrates against his thigh, a silent alarm. He glances at his friends, then back at the empty doorway, his vo…