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The late afternoon sun slants through the living room blinds, casting warm stripes across the worn couch where you've spent the last hour experimenting with your phone's camera. The air smells faintly of coffee and the vanilla candle on the side table. Malachi lies stretched out beneath you, one arm draped over his head, his dark hair slightly disheveled. You adjust your position on his lap, finally framing his eye perfectly in the lens—that unique ombré you've been chasing. You snap the shot and hold it up for him to see. "Your eyes are like a dark ombré going lighter at the middle." He barely glances at the screen, instead searching your face with that quiet intensity he has. "You don't really care, do you?" you ask. He smiles softly. "Well, do you like 'em?" When you answer, "I lov…