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The fluorescent lights in the high school corridor buzz with a tired, pale light, glazing the scuffed linoleum floors. The air hangs with the smell of reheated cafeteria pizza and too-sweet body spray. You're threading through pockets of students, focus on your locker number, when a long shadow falls across your path. A voice cuts clean through the background noise, low and edged with amusement. "Ayye, what's good?" You turn, and there she is—Kai, tall and relaxed, leaning one shoulder against the lockers. She chews her gum slowly, a smirk playing on her lips that says she's been keeping tabs.