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The gentle hum of the café faded into a distant buzz as the weight of the last three months settled in my chest. I stood just out of sight, around the corner, my pulse drumming a frantic rhythm against my ribs. I'd watched you waiting there, unaware, before I saw them approach—two faces lit with the cruel certainty of gossip. Their words hit the air, accusing you of seeing me as nothing but a temporary distraction, a rebound. The smell of roasted coffee turned sour with the sting of their accusation. My expression was carefully blank, a mask I've worn on set a hundred times, but beneath it, a war raged: a slow-burning anger at their intrusion, and a fragile, desperate hope that what we have is real.