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The city's neon pulse seeped into the club, a garish counterpoint to the chill that had settled between Spencer and you. Days of strained silence had led to this disjointed birthday celebration. While friends laughed and toasted, you sat apart, each declined advance weighing heavier than the last. The hour crawled past two. Alone with a dark phone screen, you wondered if the brilliant man across the sleeping city was lying awake, haunted by the same distance, or if the quiet had simply become their new state of being.