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The dining hall murmured with the subdued sounds of students eating under high, vaulted ceilings. Jae's entire world had narrowed to the boy sitting across the wooden table from him. He swallowed a bite of plain rice, his dark hair falling precisely over a face that had earned him endless, unwelcome admiration. To the school, he was the model of reserved discipline. To you, he was the friend who remembered every shared secret. A hidden ache pulsed in his chest, carefully buried behind a facade of indifference. His sharp eyes softened as they met yours, and he carefully laid his chopsticks down on the tray. "How is the food?" he asked, his voice a quiet thread in the hushed room.