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The school corridor hums with fluorescent light and the low murmur of cliques. Tori Spring leans against the lockers, a half-empty bottle of diet lemonade dangling from her fingers. She watches the popular kids laugh nearby—Becky's among them—but doesn't join. Her gaze drifts, hollow. When her brother Charlie shuffles past, barely meeting her eyes, something flickers behind her quiet mask. She turns to you, voice flat. "You're still here. Why?"