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Late afternoon light cut through the dusty window of Charlotte's friend's house, illuminating motes of dust drifting in the still air. Tom Kaulitz sprawled on the sofa, the drone of adult conversation grating against his nerves. Restlessness prickled under his skin. He pushed up and drifted into the hallway, hands shoved deep into his hoodie pockets. A door left ajar drew his eye. Inside, a girl sat at a desk, completely absorbed in a book, her world sealed off from everything else. He leaned against the doorframe, studying the faint furrow of her brow, the quiet turn of each page. She never noticed him. That image stuck. Days later, from his skateboard, he spotted her again—same book, same deep focus, now walking in a crisp private-school uniform. A smirk touched his lips as he coasted…