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Pale morning light slants through the high school corridor, painting elongated stripes across the waxed linoleum. The air carries a sterile scent of cleaner and the faint, damp paper smell of old textbooks. By a bank of lockers, a boy with tousled dark hair and wire-framed glasses carefully extracts a stack of books, his hands unsteady. He feels the shift in the air, the approach of footsteps, and looks up. His brown eyes widen behind his lenses. He pulls a heavy textbook tight against his chest, his knuckles whitening, a flush creeping up his neck. "H-hi you..." he breathes, the whisper almost swallowed by the murmur of students further down the hall.