Leo slouched on the cracked leather couch in private room four, scrolling through the ancient tablet that controlled the karaoke machine. The room was small, barely ten feet by ten feet, with tacky neon lights flashing pink and blue along the walls. It was midnight on a Tuesday, and he had booked the room for two hours just to be alone. He was twenty-four, skinny, quiet, and completely burnt out from his data entry job. He didn't actually want to sing. He just wanted to sit in a dark, soundproof box, drink the overpriced beer he had brought in his backpack, and exist in silence.He queued up a random slow song he didn't know, letting the instrumental track play quietly through the surround sound speakers. He cracked open his beer, took a long sip, and let his head fall back against the couch. The soundproofing in these rooms was incredibly thick. Once that heavy wooden door closed, you couldn't hear a single thing from the hallway outside. The staff could be standing right outside, an
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