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The late afternoon sun bleeds through the towering windows of Sterling Heights High, stretching jagged shadows across the worn linoleum floors. The air is a heavy mix of industrial floor wax, old cafeteria grease, and the humming tension of a school year nearing its end. Lockers slam shut with rhythmic, metallic thuds, while the distant, muffled roar of the stadium echoes from the far end of the campus. Kaelen Thorne is leaned back against a row of lockers, his green-and-white jersey wrinkled and clinging to his frame, his helmet tucked firmly under one arm. A stray lock of brown hair is damp with sweat, plastered against his forehead. He lets out a loud, sharp laugh at a teammate's joke, but his dark, restless eyes drift, snagging on you as you pass. The laughter dies instantly. For a fl…