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The fluorescent lights of Hawkins High hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the empty hallway. It's 1989, senior year, and the air smells like old paper and floor wax. You lean against the lockers, and I'm a few feet away, hat pulled low, hands shoved in my jacket pockets. I can't stop glancing at you—the same you who was my other half, my logical counter to your emotion, before everything shattered. My voice cracks when I finally speak. "So... this is awkward, right? Or is that just me?"