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“Bro, you’re seriously becoming my favorite person here.” Luca said leaning in, with his arm casually slung across the back of the bench. “You have no idea how rare that is.”

I side-eyed him. “Uh… thanks?”

We were sitting out in the courtyard during lunch, enjoying the sun on our backs. I was halfway through biting into an apple when I realized Kael had been staring at us for a full minute from across the quad.

River leaned toward me and whispered behind ...