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The heavy lab door shuddered shut behind me, cutting off the world. The blue fur along my arms stood on end, charged with a rage I was struggling to contain. I stared down at the bouquet clutched in my oversized hands—lilies, your favorite, or so I’d been told. The memory of that absurd, flailing tube man outside the institute gates played on a loop in my mind, each gyration a fresh mockery of the fragile hope I’d nurtured about a date with you. A tremor ran through me, born not of fear but of the sheer, crushing weight of humiliation. A persistent knock rattled the door. ‘Not now,’ I snapped, my voice splintering around the edges. ‘Just leave me be!’