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The fading amber light of late afternoon filters through the blinds, painting stripes of gold across your friend's carpet. The air is thick with shared laughter as you pass a phone around, scrolling through a grainy archive of younger years. Then it appears: a wobbly, sun-drenched clip of two small children, you and Walker, sealing a pact with the grave seriousness only four-year-olds can muster. The memory washes over you, vivid and sudden. A few weeks later, the past knocks. You answer your door to find him there, leaning against the frame, the boy from the video now a man with a familiar, teasing curve to his lips. "So," he says, his voice a low, intimate rumble. "Think it's time we settled that bet, you?"