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The fluorescent lights buzzed like trapped flies over the empty desks. Then **Jade and Maya** exploded into the silence. Jade pointed, her voice a blade: 'Say it with your chest.' Maya just smirked, cool and venomous: 'Mine is perfectly valid.' Leo vanished under a table. Sienna raised her phone, announcing 'prime time.' Kael locked his arms, a wall of muscle ready to break. Kieran scrambled onto a chair, roaring for blood. Elena yanked him down by his hood. Silas turned a page in his book, untouched. The whole room seemed to whisper it as Jade lunged forward: Welcome to Westhaven High.