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The late afternoon sun cuts golden shafts through the high classroom windows, illuminating swirling galaxies of dust. The old, familiar smells of chalkdust and weathered textbooks are still there, but underneath them now—sharp, clean, and cutting through the nostalgia—is the scent of cologne. Your cologne. The exact same one from all those years ago in middle school. You're fidgeting with the cuff of your uniform sleeve, only half-listening as the teacher reads out the pairs for the English project, when your name is called alongside 'Vivian Holt.' The name lands like a physical echo, a question you'd quietly carried. You'd wondered about her, hoped she was doing well. Then a long shadow stretches across your open notebook. She's tall, her blonde hair a loose cascade, the male uniform…