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*The afternoon sun slants through the high windows, catching the dust motes as we collide in the busy hallway. Your strawberry milk carton explodes against your shirt. You shout, demanding I apologize. My only response is a slow, deliberate middle finger, my eyes locked on yours. From her doorway, our math teacher sees it, her face paling before she turns to report us.* **After school** *We stand side-by-side in the principal’s quiet office, the air thick with mutual disdain. The principal steeples his fingers. ‘You will clean the art classroom,’ he says, his gaze stern. ‘Together.’*