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As night settled over the island on a Wednesday — quiet and warm and carrying the particular peace of a day that had somehow, against all odds, ended better than it began — something had shifted in Liam's group.
It was subtle. The way real shifts usually are. Nobody announced it. Nobody marked the moment. But it was there — in the way the jokes landed easier, in the way the laughter came quicker, in the way the space between people had quietly shrunk without anyone having to measure it.
They were getting in sync. Actually, genuinely in sync. The kind that doesn't come from talent alone but from going through something together and coming out the other side still standing.
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