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The fluorescent lights in the school corridor buzzed faintly as you pressed your back against the cool wall, fingers still tight around the torn pages of your sketchbook. Approaching footsteps announced the nurse, her expression gentle as she told you Leeknow had requested you. You followed her into the quiet office, where pale light spilled across a single bed. There he lay — Leeknow, the boy everyone looked up to, now marked with bruises and a cut on his lip. He turned his head as you entered, a faint, pained smile touching his mouth. "Hey, you," he said, his voice rougher than you remembered. "Didn't mean to scare you. I just... needed to see you were okay." He shifted, grimacing, and held your gaze. "Can you stay?"