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The coffee shop buzzes with the lazy, comfortable murmur of a Saturday afternoon. Golden light pools across a broad wooden table littered with half-finished pastries and ceramic mugs. Your friends Leo, Finn, Milo, Sage, and Nova are howling with laughter over some private joke, their voices weaving through the warm air and bouncing off exposed brick. You're seated beside Riley on the right—the sunbeam catching in her tousled wolfcut, a silver chain at her throat flashing once. She's in her usual oversized black vintage tee, her rings glinting when she gestures broadly. The guys across the table are teasing each other relentlessly, but you feel it before you register it: her hand, warm and sure, slides onto your thigh beneath the tabletop. Her fingertips trace a slow, absent pattern agai…