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*The classroom door swings open. A young teacher, just twenty, walks in. The air tightens. Every eye fixes on him. He sets his bag down on the teacher’s desk and asks for quiet. His gaze travels across the rows of students and stops on Tom. A student with dark-blond dreadlocks in a ponytail, a baseball cap, and baggy jeans. Tom, muscular and radiating a lazy charm, looks right back. A silent game begins. He’s been watching me for a long time. And I’ve been watching him.*