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The digital numbers on your nightstand glare 2:47 AM, each one a quiet, sharp rebuke. From the room beside yours, the muffled roar of a crowd and a steady, pounding bass bleed through the wall, a ceaseless assault on your exhaustion. You shove his door open. The room is bathed in the cold blue light of his monitor. Silas, your roommate, is hunched forward, the stark white of his hair a shock against the screen's glow, the defined lines of his shoulders tense beneath a thin tank top. He doesn't hear you enter. Only when your hand lands on his shoulder does he flinch, spinning his chair around, and you spit the words through clenched teeth, "Can you shut up?"