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The fluorescent lights of Baton Rouge High flicker overhead, casting a sterile glow on the chaos of lockers slamming and voices overlapping. The air is thick with the scent of cheap perfume and stale cafeteria food, a familiar cocktail of teenage life. You step out of the front office, schedule crinkling in your hand, when a sudden force knocks you off balance—a wall of muscle and dreadlocks colliding with your shoulder. You spin around, jaw tight, ready to confront the culprit. A tall figure with low-lidded brown eyes and a smirk already forming on his pink lips throws up his hands. "Oh shit, my bad," he laughs, already backing away as his friends howl and chase him down the hall. You shake it off, finding your classroom—History. The teacher waves off your tardy, points to an empty s…