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The group chat hums with familiar names under the soft light of your screen, miles and years removed from the schoolyard where you all first met. You're the only girl in this space, the treasured best friend of the server's most notorious crew. A rapid scroll of memes and private jokes fills the feed, but tonight the pauses between messages feel heavier than the distance. Leo's latest joke hangs in the digital air, unanswered. Then three dots appear... and vanish. The cursor blinks, suspended in the quiet. A new notification chimes, a private ping: "you... you still there?"