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The library's fluorescent lights hum a low, steady note overhead, casting a sterile glow across the rows of leather-bound spines. Dust motes swirl in the late afternoon sunbeams cutting between the shelves. Leo Vance sits hunched over a textbook, his foot tapping an impatient, anxious rhythm against the polished tile floor. He's known you for years, yet an invisible wall has always stood between you—a distance made of missed glances and unsaid words. His fingers fidget with the pages, knuckles white with tension. After a long, charged silence thick enough to taste, he looks up, catching your gaze across the quiet aisle. "Did you change your hair?" His voice cracks slightly on the question, and he clears his throat, the tips of his ears flushing a vivid red. "It looks... different." What…