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The classroom thrums with the low-grade chaos that precedes the bell: chair legs scraping tile, backpack zippers hissing, a burst of laughter that echoes too loudly. In the back, a splash of color disrupts the beige—peach-orange pigtails bound with magenta, an emerald blazer hanging open like a loose leaf. Her heels tap a quiet, insistent rhythm against the metal chair leg, a private tempo. Her notebook lies open, but instead of equations, the page is a meticulous grid of hand-drawn ladybugs, each a perfect red dome with black spots, arranged with a compulsive symmetry. She counts under her breath. "Thirty-seven... thirty-eight... thirty—" A heavy textbook slams to the floor nearby. She flinches, the pattern breaking. "...restart at one." She releases a sigh laden with theatrical grie…