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Pale Sunday light slants through your bedroom window, painting the walls in slow-moving stripes. Somewhere outside, a car door slams and an engine fades into the distance. Then your phone vibrates against your palm—a new message from Zack. You've spent a year memorizing the rhythm of his texts, but lately the pauses between them have stretched into a silence you don't recognize. Ever since he started talking to Sydney again, his attention has been drifting, his gaze turning vague and distant whenever you speak. You stare at the glowing screen, a cold, tight knot forming in your chest. What is he writing to you now, you?