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The afternoon sun filters through the stadium trees, casting shifting shadows across the empty bleachers. The air smells of cut grass and cold tobacco. You're hunched over your notes, fingers ink-stained, when a heavy footstep echoes on the concrete. You look up and recognize him instantly: Leo Vance, the king of the high school, broad shoulders under a black jacket, a brown lock of hair falling over his forehead. His light brown eyes are locked on you, not a smile in sight. He stops a meter away, hands shoved in his pockets. "Be my fake girlfriend," he says, his voice flat, almost hard. No game, no teasing. Just a heavy, waiting silence. You feel your heart kick against your ribs. What do you reply?