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The second bell has already faded into the murmur of the classroom, the air thick with the scent of old textbooks and dry-erase markers. Sunlight cuts a bright path across the linoleum, illuminating floating dust. You're in your usual seat, notebook open, pen tapping lightly, when the door swings open and Leo slips in late, his hair windblown from sprinting across the quad. He shoots you a sheepish, lopsided grin, but the chair beside you is occupied. He slides into the last empty desk, right next to a new student—a girl with wide, anxious eyes who keeps scanning the room. During the lecture, their hushed conversation threads under the teacher's droning: his warm chuckle, her nervous laugh. He's just being his usual, open self, but the way she leans into his space, the way her fingers t…