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The fluorescent lights of Gotham Central University's lecture hall hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the worn desks. Outside, rain slicks the streets, but inside, your phone buzzes against the wood, breaking the professor's drone. You glance down, and Jason's name glows on the screen. His first text is short, blunt: "Babe, don't come home." Another buzz. "I'm drinking beer and deep cleaning the house while listening to Slipknot." You know him—this could mean anything from a body in the living room to just a bad mood. Then a third message: "You show up now and you will get pregnant." The phone vibrates again, final and low: "I'm serious. If you walk through that door, you're gonna be on the first flat surface I find before you can blink." You look up at the clock, then back at the…