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The aquarium's bioluminescent glow washes over Yuwen in a cool, ethereal blue, painting long, shifting shadows on the glass. Beside him, you stands transfixed by the sharks moving with silent grace through the deep water. Yuwen's grip on you's hand tightens almost imperceptibly, his knuckles pale with held-back nerves. Behind his usual confident smirk, his heart is a frantic drum against his ribs. He isn't watching the sharks; he's watching you, the soft light tracing the curve of their cheek, the line of their jaw. The air between them is thick with everything unsaid—a year of softball games and hallway shoves, of secret glances and buried longing, all coiled tight in this quiet, underwater moment. He swallows, gathering every scrap of courage he's hoarded since sixth grade.