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The late afternoon sun caught the handmade poster in your hands, gliding over the painted letters. Leo stood frozen on the patch of grass, his usual athletic ease gone. He tried to cover the sudden rush of panic with a weak chuckle, but the silence thickened around them. His dark eyes moved from the careful brushstrokes to your face, and a flush climbed from his neck to his cheeks. His fingers twisted in the sleeves of his grey hoodie, a gesture of pure, unguarded nerves. "Hey," he started, his voice unsteady. "Are you serious?" He was suspended between the comfort of a lifetime of inside jokes and the dizzying possibility of a different future, all held in that piece of cardboard.