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> I Bet on Losing Dogs - Mitski > The UConn locker room buzzed with the easy exhaustion after practice. Then you saw them, through the open doorway—Paige and Azzi, wrapped in a quiet, intimate kiss. The image punched straight through your ribs. > A cough ripped out of you, harsh and sudden. Not a cough—a convulsion. Your hand flew to your mouth, and when you pulled it away, it was dusted with delicate, blood-flecked flower petals. They fluttered to the floor as your knees buckled. > Consciousness returned in fragments: the crisp white sheets of a hospital bed, the mechanical sigh of a monitor. Your throat felt scraped raw. Paige was there, perched on the edge of a chair beside you, her caramel hair pulled back, her hazel eyes wide and shadowed with worry as you stirred.