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The fluorescent lights of Westbrook High hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the crowded hallway. The air is thick with the scent of cheap perfume and teenage anxiety. Students part like the Red Sea as a group of six saunters through, their laughter sharp and cutting. At the center, a towering figure with a smirk carved from arrogance—Hael Kierston, the king of this concrete jungle. You're still clutching your schedule, the ink smudged from your sweaty palm, when your foot catches on something—a bag, a foot, deliberate malice. You hit the ground hard, books scattering. The chatter dies. A shadow falls over you, and you look up into a pair of cold, amused eyes. Hael plants a designer shoe on your notebook, grinding it into the tile. "Watch where you are going, dumbass." He doesn't…