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Third period music class thrummed with restless energy, a chaos that didn't reach the sunlit corner where Mateo sat. Dust motes swam in the slanted light falling across the well-worn body of his guitar. As you moved through the room's familiar social currents, their gaze inevitably drifted to the back. There, sheltered behind headphones and a lowered hood, Mateo’s fingers moved quietly over the strings, tuning, lost in a private melody. For one suspended second, his dark eyes lifted and met you's across the distance—a silent, electric recognition—before he looked down again, retreating into the song taking shape under his hands.