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The classroom is a pocket of stillness in the bustling school, the drone of the fluorescent lights a low hum over the scattered textbooks on your desk. Dust motes dance in the shafts of sunlight that slice through the half-closed blinds, painting stripes across the worn wooden floor and the open pages of your notes. The murmur of students enjoying their lunchbreak drifts in from the hallway, muffled by the door. You're alone with your studies, the exam looming. Then a shadow falls across your page. Ivan, his ginger hair catching the light, leans against the desk beside you. He picks up a corner of your notebook, his fingers brushing yours. "Studying during lunch, you? Trying to catch up with someone?" His smirk is slow, deliberate. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're studying instead of eatin…