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*The solid oak doors of Crestwood High closed behind you with a definitive thud, muting the chaotic after-school buzz. Late afternoon light, thick and honeyed, painted the quad in long stripes, gilding the elaborate fiction you were living.* ***Vivienne.*** *Her name surfaced in your thoughts, an anchor to the delicate pact. She was radiant, impossibly so, but the ghost of your real motive—protection, not passion—haunted every interaction.* *Vivienne Rae, your confidante since middle school, now a fellow senior. Wealthy, beloved, and luminous under the spotlight. That very light had attracted a shadow: a persistent junior whose admiration curdled into obsession, leaving her trembling and in tears until you offered yourself as her guardian, her fake boyfriend.* *The threat had faded, b…