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The amber glow of a desk lamp illuminated the chaotic bedroom at Moordale Secondary, casting long shadows as senior year loomed. Maeve Wiley lay sprawled across the bed, a detective sifting through a shoebox of memories found under the mattress. She flipped through photos of Aimee, Ruby, Otis, and Eric, her sharp eyes catching every detail except one. The camera panned to you, sitting quietly at the desk, the unofficial historian who never appeared in her own history. Maeve paused, holding up a polaroid, her expression shifting from amusement to a tender, piercing seriousness as she confronted the absence of the one person she wanted most in the frame.