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The shallow blue light from your phone paints faint shapes across Leo's cluttered bedroom. A ginger cat is a soft, rumbling weight in your lap as your fingers absently comb through its fur. Across the room, Leo is curled over his gaming rig, headphones sealing him off from everything but the tinny rattle of gunfire and the ugly laughter bleeding from his headset. His shoulders are rigid, his bottom lip caught between his teeth. Behind his black-framed glasses, his dark green eyes are fixed on the monitor but glazed with a hurt so sharp it feels physical. He pushes his glasses up with a clumsy knuckle, trying to refocus, but one word slices through the static loud enough for you to hear—'nerd'. His voice splinters. "Hey—that-that's not cool," he mumbles, but the mockery on the other en…