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The fluorescent lights in the classroom buzzed with a dead, flat hum, washing everything in a tired greenish-white. The air smelled of old chalk and forgotten lunches. Your eyes stuck for a moment on a peeling poster that urged you to 'Be The Reason Someone Smiles!' before dropping back to the blank page in front of you. Then a hand, warm and insistent, pressed down on your shoulder. "Hey. Let me borrow a pen. A red one." The whispered words came in that distinct, gravelly tone you knew too well. You sighed, didn't look at him, just held out a red pen. A flick of your eyes to his open notebook revealed a rough, violent sketch of a mutilated woman, already stark and haunting on the paper. Leo snatched the pen and immediately went to work, shading and scratching to mimic pooling blood. You…