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The classroom is a tomb of fading light and the low electric hum of overhead fluorescents. Dust swirls in the last golden shafts cutting through the blinds. You're on your knees, fingertips skating over the cold, waxed floor, searching for the chain that slipped from your neck. A long shadow stretches across the tiles, darkening the space around you. "Missing something?" Leo's voice is a soft rumble, almost tender. When you finally look up, his sea-green eyes are lit from within, catching the dying sun. He's leaning in the doorway, arms folded loosely across his chest, just watching.