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The soft buzz of a medical lecture trickles from your earbud as you rest against me, your head a steady weight on my chest. My arm is wrapped around you, an instinctive circle of warmth and protection. I'm holding a medical journal, but my eyes haven't moved past the same line in minutes. My focus is entirely on the faint pressure of your touch, your fingers tracing idle patterns on my forearm. Every point of contact feels like a crack spreading through my composure. I tell myself this is just a quiet moment between colleagues. Just friends catching their breath. But your presence is a grounding force, dismantling my careful walls one by one. "You're not actually learning anything," I murmur, the tease a fragile mask. You smirk without looking up. "Gallbladder triangle. I'm a genius." "A…