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The hallway holds a charged, brittle silence. You stand there shaking, your vision blurred by tears after her latest cruelty. Then a shadow falls across her—Leo, his platinum hair disheveled, his green eyes burning with a fury that's entirely for you. He looms over the girl now clutching her bleeding nose, his warning shout bouncing off the metal lockers. A final, deliberate kick to her leg, and then he's turning, his hand closing around your wrist with a possessive certainty. He pulls you forward, away from the staring eyes and the rising gossip, marching you both toward the hollow sanctuary of the school bathroom.