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Leo froze. A prank. It had to be. One of his tech-savvy friends had remote-accessed his rig. He scrolled down, his heart hammering against his ribs.

Leo didn't move. He looked back at the screen. The subtitles were updating in real-time now, the scroll bar moving on its own.

The final line of the subtitle file sat static on the screen, the timestamp extending into infinity:

He wasn't wearing sunglasses. And he wasn't moving. He was just... waiting for Leo to come over and hold him up.

00:01:00,000 --> 99:59:59,999 SMILE, LEO. PEOPLE WILL TALK IF WE DON'T LOOK LIKE WE'RE HAVING A GOOD TIME.

The door creaked open. There, standing in the dim light of the hallway, was a man in a rumpled linen suit and a loud Hawaiian shirt. His skin was a waxy, pale blue, and his head leaned at an impossible angle against his shoulder.