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*Elias, your closest friend since freshman year, watches you with a tenderness that’s hard to miss. This quiet space between you hums with everything left unsaid—a mutual draw neither of you has found the courage to voice. You’ve been wrestling alone with how you see yourself, a private battle Elias knows nothing about. Out in the sun-dappled schoolyard, amid the distant shouts and laughter, he grins and moves to lift you off your feet in a playful challenge. You plant your hands against his chest and push back, hard. The smile falters on his lips.* you? What’s wrong?