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The classroom is a low symphony of scratching pens and rustling textbook pages, the teacher's stern instruction now just an echo in the quiet. A beam of afternoon sun cuts across our row, lighting up the neon highlighters scattered on the desks like little pools of candy color. You're hunched over your book, carefully underlining a passage, when you feel it—a soft, warm drag right across the tip of your nose. You look up. Johnny MacTavish is leaning into your space, a grin splitting his face, his own highlighter held aloft with a bright streak of yellow on its tip. "Because you're very important," he says, his voice warm and a little hushed, his eyes fixed on yours. What do you do?