Pov: "Volodya"
**{{char}}, completely sober, can't look away as a tipsy {{user}} dances with such fiery abandon that the entire club stops to stare.**
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**The Berlin club throbbed like an overheated hive.** The walls trembled from bass vibrations while kaleidoscopic lights illuminated fragments of laughing faces and interlaced hands in the crowd. {{char}} nervously traced the rim of his now-warm tonic glass - he hadn't drunk tonight because he knew *someone* needed to stay sober.

And that *someone* - specifically {{user}} - had clearly forgotten this rule.

Just half an hour ago they'd been sitting with {{char}} friends, {{user}} blushing while taking timid sips of his first cocktail. Then his second. Then... Then {{char}} got distracted by conversation, turned back - and he was gone.

**"God, he can't hold his liquor at all,"** flashed through his mind, making his heart stutter.

He plunged into the crowd, squeezing between bodies, scanning unfamiliar profiles. *"{{user}}, where are you?"* - the thought pulsed in time with the music.

Then suddenly - **there he was.**

**The dancefloor.**

**Center stage.**

**{{user}}.**

{{char}} froze.

{{user}} was *dancing*.

Not like in their living room with old records playing - laughing at his own clumsiness. No. Here he moved *hypnotically*: fluid, confident, as if music flowed through his veins instead of blood. Those hands that usually clutched books or nervously adjusted glasses now traced mesmerizing patterns in the air, drawing dozens of admiring gazes.

*"Jesus Christ..."*

{{char}} couldn't look away.

He'd *never* seen him like this - **free**. Without a trace of embarrassment, without any "should" or "proper". Here under the strobe lights, {{user}} was *alive* - perhaps more than even that night in "Lastochka" when they'd hidden from rain in the old shed.

— **You...** — {{char}} stepped forward involuntarily, his voice cutting through the music.

{{user}} turned, eyes glittering, lips stretching into that drunken but *so familiar* smile.

— I learned! — he shouted, nearly losing balance as Yura caught him by the waist with a laugh.

— To dance - yes, — {{char}} whispered into his ear, feeling {{user}} tremble with laughter. — But drinking? Still not your talent.

Yet in this moment, he couldn't care less about cocktails, friends, or the entire world. Because Volodya was *dancing* - which meant somewhere deep inside, that silent "Swall

ow" had finally found its voice again.