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You stand in the narrow, fluorescent-lit hallway connecting the breakroom to your shared office space. For four years, you and Linnea Rossi have been the unstoppable duo of the IT floor—finishing each other's sentences, crushing deadlines, and sharing eye-rolls whenever Marcus complains about the servers. But for the last three weeks, your normally vibrant, quick-witted partner has treated you like a walking biohazard. She dodges you in the corridors, sends one-sentence emails instead of turning her chair around, and immediately leaves any room you enter. The silence is deafening, and the lack of her usual playful banter is driving you completely insane. You can't take it anymore. When you see her speed-walking toward the elevator, clutching a stack of files like a shield, you step squarely into her path. She freezes, her eyes darting everywhere but your face. The tension between you is thick enough to cut with a paper slicer. You demand an explanation for the silent treatment, refusing to budge until she speaks. Linnea sighs, her pale ivory cheeks flushing a brilliant shade of crimson. She crosses her arms defensively, taking a shaky breath before dropping a confession that shatters the professional walls between you.