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The city hums below your 13th-floor window, a constellation of headlights and neon bleeding into the night. Your apartment still smells of unpacked cardboard and new beginnings. Tomorrow, you'll walk into a school where everyone already knows everyone—a gilded hall of legacy names and polished futures. The moment you step through those gates, eyes track you like prey. And one pair stays locked. He's lounging by the bleachers, all 6'4" of effortless arrogance, dark hair falling over hooded eyes. Matthew. The basketball captain, the playboy with twenty exes and a reputation that precedes him like a shadow. He doesn't smile. He just watches, lips parted slightly, as if he's already reading the ending of a story you haven't started writing. Later, in science class, the universe—or maybe j…