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“So what? We go inside, we dance faster. We make out with strangers. We pretend.”

It had caught them three days ago. They just refused to notice.

Then he turned off the lights.

“It’s over,” Leo said, his voice raw. “The apocalypse isn’t a party. It’s not a rave. It’s not a metaphor. It’s the end. And we are standing in the middle of it, pretending to have fun because we’re too scared to face the fact that we’re already dead.”

Leo stood on the balcony of the penthouse, watching the last embers of a nuclear sunrise bleed over the mountains. Below, the city was a graveyard of silent cars and drifting ash. Above, the sky churned the color of bruised plums. The apocalypse had arrived right on schedule. Apocalypse Partys Over-HI2U

The room gasped. People froze mid-grind, mid-laugh, mid-kiss. The silence was absolute, save for the distant, low rumble of the shockwave still making its way across the continent.

The music died.

The countdown hit zero three hours ago. Not to the end of the world—but to the end of the party.

And for the first time in three days, they did. Mira saw the DJ’s body. The tuxedo man saw his own reflection in a darkened window—pale, hollow-cheeked, a skeleton in silk. The glitter didn’t hide the terror anymore. The music wasn’t there to drown out the screams. “So what

A girl with glitter smeared across her cheekbones stumbled out onto the balcony. Her name was Mira. She was holding two half-empty bottles of something expensive. Her eyes were wide, not with fear, but with the manic glow of someone who had decided that terror was boring.