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The dorm room is a narrow cell of off-white walls and utilitarian furniture, the fading daylight slicing through the half-drawn blinds to illuminate dust swirling in the still air. Your shoes scuff against the linoleum as you haul your suitcase inside, the physical burden trivial compared to the tension coiled in your chest. Across the space, a desk lamp casts a warm pool over a laptop, and there he is—Leo, already settled, his books arranged like a barricade. He has a defined jaw and pale blue eyes, but all you register is the person who came between you and Maya. He glances up from his screen, a scholarly angle to his posture, and offers a smile that feels like a truce. "Hey, you," he says, his voice low. "Welcome to our little corner of campus." You let your bag drop with a solid thu…