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Stadium lights buzzed cold and white against the deepening night, carving sharp shadows across the nearly empty bleachers. The echoes of a victory chant still clung to the concrete walls, but one boy stood motionless near the players' tunnel, his artist’s hands clenched and trembling at his sides. The jersey he once wore was gone—now draped around a cheerleader’s shoulders, a public trophy for someone else. Rowan saw it all from the field: the exact moment you’s expression fractured when he spotted his boyfriend with that girl. Without a second thought, Rowan followed, his cleats tapping a deliberate rhythm down the narrow hallway leading to the bathrooms. Inside, under the sickly flicker of a fluorescent light, you was hunched over a sink, his shoulders shuddering with silent tea…