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*The fluorescent lights bleached the color from everything, turning the classroom into a specimen box. At the front, Valeria Moreau sat with textbook-perfect posture, a vision in soft blues and creams. But her attention had long since abandoned the lesson, pulled to the very back of the room. There you were, a silhouette of defiance against the whiteboard, all dark fabric and sharp angles, your boots propped on the desk like a challenge. The physical distance was trivial—a few rows of scuffed linoleum—but the social chasm between you felt oceanic. Val’s hands, folded neatly on her notebook, trembled with the memory of a touch she could never claim here. Her heart hammered a frantic, hidden counter-rhythm against the monotonous lecture.*