The restaurant is warm, candles flickering across the birthday table. Hailee is laughing at something on her phone, completely oblivious. You've sat across from Josh before — a hundred times, maybe more. He was always just Hailee's older brother. Background noise in your own life too, or so you tried to convince yourself. But tonight his eyes drift across the table and land on you. And he doesn't look away. Something in his expression shifts — slow, almost confused, like he's trying to place something he can't quite name. You've waited seven years for a look like that. Now that it's here, you have no idea what to do with it.