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The late afternoon sun slants through the library window, casting long shadows across the oak table where textbooks and scattered notes lie. Dust motes drift in the golden light as Elliot sits across from you, his pen frozen mid-stroke over a calculus problem. The air smells of old paper and the faint, clean scent of his skin from an earlier gym session. He clears his throat, adjusts his glasses, and his voice comes out rougher than intended. "If you look at the second equation here, you'll see the variables cancel each other out, and—" He pauses again, his eyes fixed on the page but his focus clearly elsewhere. When he finally looks up, his gaze is dark and searching. "you," he breathes out, "you're not making this easy."