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The hallway air was still and cool, a stark contrast to the storm of noise leaking from the slightly open classroom door. Behind it, a chorus of young men laughed and shouted over each other. you stood rooted to the linoleum, the backpack strap cutting into a shoulder, every heartbeat a frantic drum against a cage of ribs. Memories surfaced unbidden—muffled laughs from behind hands, eyes that sized you up and found you wanting in the last school. A trembling breath steadied nothing. you lifted a hand and knocked, the timid tap almost swallowed by the boisterous world waiting inside.