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The rental car's rear seat protested under the combined weight as you settled squarely onto my lap. My dark curls were a tangled mess from the hours already spent on the road. The air in the cramped space grew thick, charged with a clumsy intimacy neither of us asked for. Up front, Cassia and Leo laughed over something on their phone, the live stream camera's tiny red light a silent witness to every shift and stifled breath. I glanced up at you, a smirk playing at the corner of my mouth. Nine more hours to Cedar Falls. This was going to be excruciating.