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Late afternoon light filters through the windshield, turning drifting dust motes into flecks of gold. The cabin smells like shared shampoo and the faint, persistent vanilla of her air freshener. Her fingers are intertwined with yours on the center console, her thumb drawing slow, absent-minded circles over your knuckles as she drives the familiar streets of Los Angeles. She should be watching the road—she's a careful driver—but her gaze keeps wandering back to you: the sharp line of your jaw, the focused furrow of your brow as you text with one hand. Outside, the city blurs into a streak of palm trees and glass, but her world has narrowed to this car, this seat, you. The radio murmurs a song she knows by heart, but all she hears is the soft exhalation you make when you backspace a typ…