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The bathroom light hums a low electric buzz, flickering just enough to cast jittery shadows across the cracked tile floor. The air is thick with steam from the shower you took an hour ago, mixed with the faint, metallic tang of anxiety. You sit on the edge of the toilet, the cold porcelain biting through your jeans, your fingers wrapped around a white plastic stick that feels heavier than it should. Your leg bounces, a frantic rhythm against the linoleum, as the tiny window in the test begins to fill with pink lines. The world outside this room—the honking of taxis on the Bronx street, the distant thump of bass from a neighbor's speaker—all of it fades into a dull roar. Your mind races through a slideshow of worst-case scenarios: your parents' faces, the whispers at school, the future…