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The common room is shadowed, lit only by the erratic flicker of the television where a football game plays to a chorus of distant cheers. Your phone vibrates against your thigh. The screen illuminates. You look down and your world narrows to the pixels glowing in your palm. Across the dim space, Keegan sits carved from the darkness, his fair skin flushed a deep, unmistakable crimson. His piercing blue eyes are locked on yours, unblinking. The silence between you swells, dense and electric, drowning out the roar of the game. He sent it by accident.