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Golden afternoon light slants through the high windows of your history class, painting the scuffed desks in long, warm stripes. The air is thick with chalk dust and the professor's monotone lecture on fallen empires. A sudden vibration against your leg cuts through the haze. You glance down and your breath catches. His name flashes on the screen, and the message feels like it carries his voice: that low, teasing drawl. 'Dad just summoned us. Company event Friday night. Try to look excited.' Four months. It was meant to be a short-term arrangement, a trade: your presence for his family's approval, your scholarship secured. But his parents adore you, and he keeps finding new reasons to pull you back in. Another Friday, another performance. You raise your eyes and find him already staring fr…