Sophia POVHe caught me at my locker after the last bell, alone, the hallway thinning out around us as everyone else filtered toward the parking lot. "Do you have a minute?" Damian asked. "I know I said I'd tell you something, back before all of this started spiraling. I still want to.""Now's fine," I said, closing my locker. "Where?""The old chemistry roof," he said. "If that's still somewhere you'd feel comfortable going with me."I hesitated, thinking of that first conversation there, the rooftop confession about his father, the counting stars, the way something had shifted in how I saw him that afternoon. "Okay," I said.We climbed the familiar stairwell in silence, emerging into the cool late-afternoon air, the city spread out below us in its usual hazy sprawl. Damian didn't sit right away. He stood near the edge, looking out at nothing in particular, his hands loose at his sides, none of the restless energy I remembered from him weeks ago."I want to say something first," he s
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