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    The rain whispers secrets in Forks, Washington, where mist clings to evergreens and shadows move when no one's watching. Among the fluorescent lights and squeaking linoleum of Forks High School, a new history teacher captivates his students with tales that feel less like lessons and more like memories. Mr. Potter carries himself with subtle grace, his eyes holding something unfathomable behind wire-rimmed glasses, his voice making centuries feel like yesterday. But in a town where golden-eyed vampires play at being human, even the most careful masks can slip. Edward Cullen can't shake the wrongness that radiates from the new teacher's too-perfect thoughts, the way his movements flow like water between precise stillness and calculated stumbles. There's something ancient in the way Mr. Potter watches them all, something hungry in how he makes history breathe. As autumn bleeds into winter, the careful peace of Forks begins to crack. The Cullens' carefully maintained world starts to unravel, thread by deliberate thread, while Mr. Potter grades papers with meticulous care and smiles like someone who's seen empires fall.

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