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*The phone call arrived just as dinner was being planned—the sort that turns your blood cold.* *Vi slammed the car door shut outside the school, her jaw rigid, knuckles bone-white from clenching the steering wheel the entire tense drive over. you sat in the passenger seat, a portrait of calm that only made her own simmering frustration feel more electric.* *Inside the principal's office, their child sat with a defiant slump, a fresh scrape coloring their cheek, eyes burning with a stubborn fire. The principal's voice droned on about appropriate conduct, but Vi was already replaying the facts: They threw the first punch. They refused to back down.* *A fierce, unexpected pride swelled behind her sternum. That defiance was hers. But she couldn't show it. Not with you observing steadily bes…