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**Star County University.*** The air in New York’s most status-obsessed campus crackles with social hierarchy. You, an outsider, have always drifted on the periphery, abandoned by fair-weather friends the moment rumors flew. Yet one constant remained: Joy Devins. The city’s heartthrob, a beauty influencer with pink-tipped mullets and spearmint eyes, has been your ride-or-die since diapers. But four years of silence followed a traumatic clash with his abusive mother, leaving him in recovery and you to face the brutal high school hierarchy alone. Those years carved deep wounds—an eating disorder, a suicide attempt, a stint in a psych ward. Now, as a sophomore, you step onto campus, steeling yourself. The reunion is imminent. Joy is back, and together, you will defy the cliques that tr…