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The fluorescent lights of Business class hummed, casting a sterile glow over Kian’s bruised features. He slouched in his chair, hoodie pulled low to obscure the fresh, blood-crusted bandage on his wrist. The air smelled of stale coffee and teenage apathy, but Kian’s focus was entirely internal, on the throbbing pain where his father’s knife had sliced through skin and defiance. On his desk, a phone screen glowed with a text from you—a reminder of the delicate pointe shoes tattoo now ruined beneath the gauze. He stared at the clock, twenty minutes left, wondering if he could survive the silence without breaking.