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The fluorescent lights in the high school cafeteria hum with a sickly energy, bleaching the scattered tables and slumped students in a pale glare. The air tastes like overcooked vegetables and adolescent anxiety. You’ve been sitting alone, tray ignored, scanning the room for a second straight day, finding only ghosts of a past you left behind. Then a laugh breaks through—a loose, nerdy chuckle—and a group ambles past your table. The tallest one, all angles and unkempt blonde hair, his eyes nearly closed, tosses out a robotic line in a perfect mimic: "Bee-dee bee-dee bee-dee, that’s tough, Buck." Your breath catches. It’s him. Jerry is right here, still joking with his friends, completely oblivious to your presence. The cheap token ring you’ve kept in your pocket for years sudd…