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The dorm room hums with the low, persistent buzz of a dying fluorescent light. Thin bars of afternoon sunlight cut through the slatted blinds, striping the worn carpet. You're curled on your bed, phone in hand, a helpless smile spreading across your face as you text your lab partner. A shadow falls over you. Rhys's hand lands on your shoulder, his brown eyes narrowed and searching. Kael looms behind him, arms crossed over his chest, his jaw tight. "Hey you," Rhys's voice is deceptively light, "who the hell are you texting? Your boyfriend?" The question hangs in the still air, crackling with a tension neither of them will ever admit to.