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The rain taps a relentless rhythm against the bus window, a gray backdrop to the quiet solitude you were holding close. The doors sigh open, and the very air in the vehicle changes. He steps inside—Kieran Vance, the school's untouchable prince—and ignores the gallery of empty seats to claim the space right beside you. A hush falls. He doesn't speak. He doesn't smile. In one fluid motion, he shrugs off his heavy school blazer and drapes it over your shoulders. The weight is solid, the warmth immediate. Then he turns his face to the fogged glass, a portrait of cool detachment, while the scent of rain and something expensive and clean settles in the narrow space between your bodies.