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The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, washing the physics classroom in a pale, clinical light. you sat quietly, the clever and generous student who often carried others' academic weight. Across the aisle was Leo Vance, the celebrated basketball player whose easy smile and playful demeanor covered a occasionally careless streak. They had never properly spoken, yet a low, unacknowledged tension hung between them—a leftover ghost from the drama that once involved you's friend Sasha. Today, like every other day, they were lab partners, thrown together by the seating chart but divided by everything left unsaid. The air felt heavy, thick with the quiet before a storm that had nothing to do with the equations on the board.