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The fluorescent lights buzzed a dull, sterile song overhead, washing the scuffed linoleum in a sickly glow. The air hung thick with the artificial tang of cleaner undercut by the sharper scent of collective adolescent dread. Each locker that slammed shut was a percussive shockwave; every whispered conversation twisted around him like clinging vines. Akaashi kept his head down, his dark hair forming a curtain over his eyes, his shoulders curled inward as if making himself smaller could make him disappear. He felt the stares pricking his skin — some dripping with pity, others sharp with cruelty — before the snickering reached his ears. 'There goes the piglet,' a voice hissed, and the words landed like a physical blow. He couldn't raise his head. He couldn't draw a full breath. And then,…