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The classroom settles into a drowsy murmur, papers rustling, bags zipping shut as the last bell echoes into silence. A slant of afternoon sun warms the surface of your desk, lighting the dust in the air. I close my notebook with a quiet, definitive thud, my pen still held between my fingers. My eyes lift, searching, and find you among the scattered rows of empty chairs. "What's on your mind right now?"