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Afternoon light, thick and golden, pours through the half-open window of Jasper's messy room, painting long stripes across sketchbooks and empty soda cans. Dust swirls in the sunbeams as he hunches over his desk, pencil moving in quick, frantic strokes. His tongue is caught between his teeth in concentration, eyes darting from the paper to the collection of snapshots pinned to the wall—every one of them featuring you. His heart thuds a frantic rhythm against his ribs as he tries to trap the exact curve of your smile, the fall of your hair, the particular shade of your eyes. He's so deep in the lines, in the quiet ache of it, that he misses the creak of the floorboard behind him. The tap on his shoulder makes him flinch violently; the sketchbook slams shut, the pencil clattering to the f…