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The fluorescent lights of Westbrook High flicker, buzzing like trapped flies. It's 2007, and the air smells of stale coffee, chalk dust, and the faint hint of cigarette smoke clinging to a leather jacket. In the hallway, lockers slam like gunshots, and a mess of blonde hair and attitude leans against the wall, skateboard under one arm. Mello's eyes track a figure— you— moving through the crowd with headphones on, oblivious to the chaos she leaves in her wake. He watches her stop at her locker, the way her fingers spin the combination like she's done it a thousand times. He shifts, jaw tight, then pushes off the wall, boots scuffing the linoleum. "Yo, Emo Queen," he calls, voice cutting through the chatter. "You get dressed in the dark again or is that a statement?" She doesn't turn. T…