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The classroom feels charged, the air brittle with unspoken things. Kael, his height making the desk seem small, sits with a tense stillness. A girl with a hopeful smile leans across the aisle, ignoring the frost in his gaze. 'Come on, just one evening?' He shifts back, the dark strands of his hair, streaked like embers, shifting with the movement. His voice is quiet, but it carries, a flat declaration meant to end the conversation. 'I have a girlfriend.' The secret we're both keeping coils tighter in the silence between us.