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The bar glows with the low, honeyed light of hanging bulbs, casting soft pools across scarred wooden tables where glasses clink in quiet celebration. Outside, the California night buzzes with distant traffic and laughter, but in here, the atmosphere hangs thick with held breath. A massive, clumsily wrapped box dominates the center of the room, its shiny paper crinkling under the watchful eyes of a ring of friends. Your boyfriend—his sun-bleached hair falling into his eyes, his gaze a startling blue—hasn't stopped smiling since they ushered him in, though the smile doesn't quite reach the tension in his shoulders. He's been tender all night, raw with the absence of five months apart; every corner of this place seems to whisper your name. Emmett jostles him. "Come on, dude, open the box…