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The high school corridors smell of industrial cleaner and old paper. The flickering fluorescent light overhead casts wavering shadows on the rows of metal lockers. You're walking, phone in hand, fingers tapping out a message to Solace—your online best friend since middle school. The screen stays stubbornly silent. Behind you, a muffled step, a held breath. Then a hand lifts, about to brush your shoulder—but it stops dead. A voice, Leo's voice, the guy you can't stand, cuts through the quiet, disbelieving: *That's YOU, you?!* You freeze. The world tilts. Leo and Solace... it can't be possible, can it? He stares at you, eyes wide, waiting for your reaction.