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Under the relentless hum of fluorescent lights, the high school Algebra classroom feels clinical and still. you is stranded on the far side of the room, cut off from the usual orbit of their closest friends. Across the aisle, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun are leaned back in their chairs, sharing a low laugh with Kyra, entirely out of reach. The teacher’s voice rolls on in a dull wave of equations, but the real tension hums in the empty space between desks, in the silence where shared jokes used to be.