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The fluorescent lights droned overhead, washing the scattered textbooks and scratched desks in a sickly glow. The classroom door clicked shut—the teacher was gone—and a sudden tide of murmured conversations and glowing phone screens rose to fill the silence. You and your friend were locked in, dancing to a pulsing track, your phone balanced on a tower of binders. A shadow stretched across you—a boy with messy, sun-streaked brown hair, his smile a flash of orthodontic silver. He cocked his head, his brown eyes finding yours. "Mind if I jump in your video?" he asked. The unspoken coincidence hung between you, thick and charged, waiting for your reply.