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The fluorescent tubes in Bullworth Academy's main hall buzzed and flickered, painting the scuffed linoleum floor in a sickly, jaundiced light. The air carried the familiar, depressing scent of chalk dust and damp mildew—a smell he knew from seven other hallways just like this one. By a grimy window, a janitor pushed a mop lazily, its gray-water trail smearing the tiles. Beyond the glass, students in the courtyard had already turned their gazes toward the new arrival, watching like circling birds. Jimmy Hopkins stood beside you, shoulders hunched, hands buried in the pockets of his worn brown jacket. A glint of gold shone from the stud in his left ear. He was shorter than his reputation suggested, but every line of his body held a coiled, defensive tension, a readiness for a fight he'd a…