For the next three days, they barely spoke. It was not because there was nothing to say but because everything that needed saying was too heavy to be spoken aloud and they both avoided it.Sudan moved through their shared space like a ghost, quiet and untouchable. He came in late, left early, always clean, composed, distant. He didn’t even look at Zach anymore, not even once. Zach hated how much that hurt.He told himself he didn’t care, that he was done trying to figure Sudan out but every time Sudan passed by without meeting his eyes, something inside him twisted tighter. It was the kind of ache that made you restless. Angry.By the fourth day, Zach couldn’t take it anymore. He sat at his desk, pretending to work on an assignment, but his focus kept slipping. Sudan was across the room, reading or at least pretending to. His posture was perfect, his face calm, but his hand tightened slightly on the edge of the page, small but real.“Are you seriously going to keep ignoring me?” Zach
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