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They waited. A train passed a mile away. The radiator sighed.

Silence.

“Yeah,” Lena said. “I know.”

And for a long moment, the only sound in the room was the hum of the streetlight outside—trying, and failing, to be louder than the silence they’d learned to live in. keep it down, you two!!

Leo put the earbud back in. He turned the volume up. Then, quietly, deliberately, he kicked the wall. Once. Twice. They waited

“Maybe,” Lena said, picking up the broken lamp, “we should try being quiet for a whole day. See if she even notices.” ” Lena said