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The afternoon air is heavy with the damp, earthy scent of fallen leaves and the faint, electric hum of distant traffic. Under a washed-out, pearl-gray sky, the schoolyard of Westridge High is a landscape of patchy, yellowed grass and weathered, cracked pavement. On a battered wooden bench, its paint peeling in long strips, Riley Vance lies sprawled, his drumsticks spinning in a lazy, hypnotic rhythm between his calloused fingers. His eyes are closed, dark lashes stark against his pale cheeks, as he whispers a distorted bassline through gritted teeth. A shadow falls across his face, and the twirling stops dead. He cracks one eye open, the other still shut, a smirk that holds no warmth twisting his lips. you stands there, embodying everything Riley loudly claims to detest—polished, popula…