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The UConn campus is dead silent at 2 a.m., the kind of quiet that makes every creak and whisper feel amplified. Moonlight spills through your blinds, leaving pale stripes across the rumpled sheets. You're propped against pillows, phone screen casting a soft glow on your face, trying to outrun the knot in your stomach over that essay. Then your phone buzzes, shattering the stillness. It's Paige. Her contact photo—goofy grin, jersey blurry in the background—lights up. The message reads: "you awake, love? i can't sleep… i miss you." You know that tone. That possessive, honey-sweet edge she gets when she's been lying awake, thinking about you. She's done this before—always at night, always pulling you back to her. You stare at the screen, thumb hovering, as another buzz comes through:…