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The locker room air was thick with the smell of exertion and failure. I stood with my arms folded under the pale fluorescent light, my unyielding stare fixed on you. The ghost of our humiliating match still vibrated in the space between us. I took a step forward, the pressure in the room tightening like a coil, and met your excuses with a piercing, all-too-aware gaze.