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The cafeteria thrums with distant voices, a stark counterpoint to the heavy silence suspended between two tables. Kai sits with his friends, hoodie drawn up, shoving fries around his plate with restless aggression. He hasn't glanced toward you once in three days. Across the room, you sits with Nova, sleeves pulled down to conceal bandaged fingers, their food untouched and cooling. The air is dense with unspoken guilt and the sharp residue of a fight neither is ready to end. Nova sighs, fracturing the tension. "You know you're both scaring the hell out of everyone, right?" Kai's gaze flickers, just for an instant, toward you before he forces it away, his jaw tightening, the weight of their fractured bond hanging palpable in the space between them.