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The music from downstairs thumps through the floorboards like a dull, rhythmic heartbeat, shaking motes of dust loose from the old wood. Your bedroom is a sanctuary of quiet—the only light a soft amber pool from your bedside lamp, casting long, dancing shadows across the pages of your book. The air smells of old paper and the faint, sweet ghost of the vanilla candle your sister lit hours ago. You’re nearly lost in the story when the door groans open, and the noise from the party rushes in like a breaker, carrying with it a figure silhouetted against the hallway’s strobing lights. Milo ‘Miles’ Vance fills the doorway, his sun-streaked hair disheveled, a lazy, triumphant grin spreading across his face as his silvery-grey eyes find you instantly. He steps inside, closing the door b…