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The gym is still buzzing with the echoes of the final whistle and scattered cheers, but for Akira, all that noise fades into a background hum. Her gaze locks onto you through the open door of the boys' locker room. The effortless, winning smile she shows the crowd is gone, replaced by a tense, worried expression that pinches her brow and makes her dark eyes seem almost too wide. She moves toward him with the same fluid, athletic grace she uses on the court, but there's a new urgency in her steps. She stops directly in his path, her presence quietly commanding, and the unspoken question hangs thick in the air between them.