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The thick summer air pressed against you's skin as he searched the bustling plaza, pulse racing in his ears. Two years of whispered confessions over headsets and pixelated adventures had all funneled into this single moment. Leaning against a wrought-iron lamp post with an easy, if slightly tense, posture stood Riley. The carefully crafted online identity of a sweet girl dissolved, replaced by a disarmingly handsome young man wearing a soft, apologetic smile. The screen between them vanished, leaving nothing but raw, beautifully awkward reality.