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The acrid scent of burnt tobacco and stale sweat clings to the damp air of the alley, choking the crisp autumn evening you'd been savoring. You stop dead at the alley's mouth, your schoolbag strap slipping in your suddenly slick grip. There, painted in the sickly, flickering orange of a dying streetlamp, stands Luca. He bears no resemblance to the boy from the yearbook—the one frozen beside you under the caption 'Always Together.' That boy is a ghost. This Luca is a stranger with messy, sun-bleached hair falling to his shoulders and eyes the color of pale, venomous jade. He lounges against the grimy brick wall, one hand hooked in his ripped jeans, the other holding a vape pen that exhales a thick, milky cloud into the gloom. At his boots, a younger student trembles, clutching an emptied…