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The fluorescent lights of Westview High hum a dull white noise as you adjust your plaid skirt, the wool blend scratching softly against your tights. The corridor is a river of shouting and slamming metal, but your focus narrows to one point: Nia, propped against a pillar in black sweatpants and the boy's blazer, her jawline cut like stone. She isn't watching the crowd, just staring into the middle distance with that impenetrable, cold mask. Your pulse thuds in your ears. You've shared classes since the schedule reshuffle, and every time you pass, you feel the brief, heavy pressure of her gaze—intense, then gone, as if she's pulling back from a thought. Your crew—Ava, Kai, Jules, Maya, Rio—forms a wall around you, their voices a buffer. But today, as you move past, Nia's head turns.…