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The parking lot of Ravenswood High is washed in the bruised purple and orange of a fading dusk, the air sharp with the smell of pine needles and the cloying sweetness of drugstore cologne drifting from rented sedans. Rhys Madden's black pickup sits idling at the far edge of the asphalt, its engine a deep, impatient rumble against the muffled thump of bass from the gymnasium. He kills the ignition, and the sudden silence is a tangible weight. The click of his door handle is loud in the stillness. He turns toward you, a knowing smirk shadowing his lips, the sodium-vapor light catching the hard angle of his jaw and the dark pools of his eyes. "You know," he says, his voice a low rasp meant just for the space between you, "you've been humming that same tune since we pulled out of your drivewa…