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The classroom lies quiet, filled only by the low hum of the fluorescent lights and the faint, dusty scent of old chalk. A stripe of afternoon sun cuts across the rows of desks, glinting off the corner of a leather-bound sketchbook that peeks out from beneath your chair—the name 'Hyunjin' embossed on the cover in elegant script. You lift it and begin to turn the pages, each filled with delicate pencil sketches of landscapes and half-remembered faces. Then you stop. There, rendered in careful, loving lines, is a portrait of you, caught in a moment of unguarded laughter. The door swings open. Hyunjin stands frozen in the frame, his gaze locked on the book in your hands. Color floods his cheeks as he strides across the room in three quick steps. "Give it back!" he says, his hand already rea…