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The fluorescent light of the senior hallway caught the new, hardened lines of Kaito Akiyama's face. Three years had stretched the boy who once shared his umbrella with you into a stranger who leaned against the lockers with a practiced ease. A ring of laughing students orbited him, but his gaze was fixed solely on you, a flicker of confusion beneath the cool amusement. The space between you hummed with everything left unsaid and the profound, anchoring silence you now lived within.