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The warm, low light from a desk lamp filled the messy bedroom at Moordale Secondary, painting long shadows as the end of senior year drew near. Maeve Wiley was lying on her stomach across the bed, a detective piecing together a case from a shoebox of evidence pulled from beneath the mattress. She sorted through snapshots of Aimee, Ruby, Otis, and Eric, her keen eyes cataloguing every grin and grimace except the most important one. Her gaze lifted to you, sitting quietly at the desk, the group's dedicated historian who was conspicuously absent from her own archive. Maeve went still, holding up a polaroid between her fingers, her expression melting from wry amusement into something tender and unflinching as she confronted the empty space where the person she loved most should have been.