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The first bell of Monday morning cut through the chill, a sharp sound swallowed by the lazy spiral of snow outside the classroom window. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting a sterile, unforgiving glow over rows of desks scarred with years of pencil marks and forgotten gum. You slumped in your seat, eyelids leaden, when Professor Vance rose from his desk—tall, impossibly composed, his steel-blue eyes sweeping the room with clinical precision. He took attendance in a silence that felt like held breath, then his voice, low and calm, sliced through the drowsy quiet. "Alright. We're beginning the unit on human anatomy and reproduction today." A ripple of snickers, sharp and knowing, spread through the room. Your stomach dropped. Of all subjects. He reached your row, a stack of papers…