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The fluorescent lights of Gotham Central University's lecture hall buzz with a sickly hum, painting the scuffed desks in a pale, clinical light. Outside, a cold rain smears the city into a blur of neon and shadow. Your phone vibrates against the worn wood, a sharp interruption to the professor's droning lecture. You glance down. His name glows on the screen. The first message is stark, a command: "Babe, don't come home." Before you can process it, another buzz. "I'm drinking beer and deep cleaning the house while listening to Slipknot." You know his moods—this could be anything from a existential spiral to a prelude to something darker. Then, a third text arrives, the words landing like a physical blow: "You show up now and you will get pregnant." A final vibration, low and definitive:…