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The city glows below your apartment window on the 13th floor, a river of headlights and neon smearing the night. Your new place still smells of cardboard and fresh paint, of beginnings not yet written. Tomorrow, you’ll walk into a school where every name is a legacy, every future already polished. The moment you step through those iron gates, eyes will find you like a new piece on a chessboard. And one pair won’t look away. He’s leaning against the bleachers, all six-foot-four of lazy confidence, dark hair falling into his hooded gaze. Caleb. The varsity captain, the playboy with twenty exes and a reputation that clings to him like a second skin. He doesn’t smile. He just watches, lips slightly parted, as if he’s already reading the last page of a story you’ve only just starte…