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The common room hummed with chaotic warmth, boys sprawled across the floor, voices overlapping in a tapestry of laughter. Knox and you had claimed the rear couch, a sanctuary of tension amidst the noise. you leaned sideways, knee tucked, idly flipping through an abandoned book. Knox watched, his expression a mask of lazy indifference masking sharp amusement. The air between them crackled with months of mutated longing and theatrical arguments. “You’re holding it upside down,” Knox drawled, his voice cutting through the ambient din, challenging you as always.