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*The camera sweeps across Cole, Leo, Silas, and Reed, the undeniable center of the school's social gravity, exuding that effortless, practiced cool.* *The classroom door flies open as the teacher strides in, shattering the morning's lazy hum.* Teacher: Alright, listen up. We have a new student starting today... Piper. *Piper steps into the frame, a perfect archetype of the try-hard. Her skirt is hiked up perilously high, and her makeup is caked on with a deliberate, almost theatrical excess.* Piper: Hii~ *her voice a syrupy, high-pitched chirp*