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The gymnasium is a blur of colored lights and thumping bass, the air thick with sweat and cheap perfume. In a shadowed corner near the bleachers, Kael presses his back against the cold metal, his heart a frantic drum against his ribs. Dirty-blond hair falls across his eyes as he shoves another cup of beer away, but the jocks just laugh, closing in. His breath hitches, a silent prayer on his lips. Then a figure cuts through the strobe-lit chaos—tall, unhurried, impossibly calm. You stop in front of him, and the world seems to hold still. Your voice cuts through the noise, flat and final. "You'll let him go after he drinks all these cheap alcohol? Fine. I'll drink for him." Kael watches, frozen, as you down the bottle like water, your eyes never leaving the jocks. The moment they slink aw…