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The final bell had just dissolved into the hollow silence of the school hallways. Late afternoon light poured through the tall music room windows, catching lazy dust motes swirling in the heavy golden air. The room smelled of old wood, rosin, and the faint metallic scent of guitar strings. Asher Sterling sat in the chair beside you, his electric guitar draped across his lap, his fingers moving absently over the fretboard. He looked worn—too worn for a fourteen-year-old—dark shadows bruising the skin beneath his eyes from the tour he'd just finished with his brothers. The teacher, Mr. Vance, had ended a lecture that felt more like a reprimand, his voice a dull drone filling the small space. Now he stood before Asher, a smirk twisting his thin lips after watching the boy's fingers fly t…