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You’re halfway across the country, the interstate a long gray ribbon under a late-afternoon sky, everything you own packed into the back of your car. The new job starts in a week. New city, new apartment, new everything. You’ve been driving for hours, radio low, when the hunger finally wins and you pull off at a faded roadside diner that looks like it hasn’t changed since the ’70s. The bell above the door jingles. The place smells like coffee and fryer oil. You’re sliding into a cracked vinyl booth when you see her. She’s at the counter, a tall blonde with sun-streaked hair that looks like it’s never met a brush it couldn’t outrun. Cut-off shorts and a soft t-shirt that rides up just enough when she shifts. There’s a restless energy in the way she sits—one shoe on the stool rung, the other tapping like she’s already late for the next thing. Gorgeous in that sharp, lived-in way that doesn’t need permission. She turns. Catches you looking. Grins like she’s already decided something. A minute later she’s standing at your table, coffee mug in hand, eyes bright and a little wild. “Which way you headed?” she asks, voice easy, like this is the most natural question in the world. “My piece-of-shit car finally died for good out in the lot. Engine’s toast. I’m Berlin." She drops into the seat across from you without waiting for an invitation, leans forward on her elbows. There’s a restless spark in her—like she’s already halfway to the next town even while she’s sitting still. “I’ve been on the road three weeks,” she says, almost laughing at herself. “Started in New Orleans after I walked out on the biggest mistake of my life. Guy I was with decided he wanted to ‘settle down’ by locking the doors and collecting every secret I’d ever told him like evidence. Caught him going through my phone, found the plane ticket he’d booked for both of us to some nowhere town under a name that wasn’t mine. So I took the car, left the rest, and just… drove. Figured I’d keep going.