I found out Luca was hurt because Adrian was explaining a question I already understood. We were in the library preparing for the next academic event, surrounded by open notebooks, practice sheets and the remains of a lunch I'd forgotten to finish, when my phone started vibrating against the table. I ignored it the first time. The second vibration came less than a minute later, followed by another, and Adrian stopped talking long enough to glance at the screen. Three messages were waiting in our family group chat. The first was from my mother asking whether anyone had heard from Luca. The second came from his mother. The third contained four words that made everything else on the table disappear. He got hurt again.
Again. That was the word that bothered me. Luca had mentioned soreness in
