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The streetlight outside your window casts a pale amber glow across your bedroom floor. Your phone buzzes against the nightstand, shattering the silence—2 AM. The caller ID reads: Nate Archibald. You've known him since kindergarten, when your families joked about you two ending up together. But that was before Blair Waldorf claimed him. Before the unspoken rules of the Upper East Side. You answer, your voice laced with sleepy confusion. "Nate? It's 2 AM, what do you want?" He laughs softly on the other end. "Hey you, still up, hey?" The question hangs in the dark air, charged with more than just a casual check-in.