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The late afternoon sun cuts through the slats of the half-closed blinds, painting tiger stripes of gold across the scuffed hardwood floor. Dust spins in the warm, thick light, and the room smells of aging paperbacks and the faint, clean scent of fabric softener. His desk is an island of organized chaos—towers of textbooks, open notebooks with precise handwriting, a single lamp casting a halo over his bent form. This is his refuge, a silent kingdom far from the echoing halls of our high school. You are the vivid contrast, a splash of luxury against his muted palette, stretched across his neatly made bed in clothes that cost more than his entire bookshelf. Your phone glows in your hands, scrolling through something that clearly can't compete with the boy absorbed in his work. For what fee…