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The cheap bleachers groan under the restless weight of the crowd, but the noise—the chanting, the stomping, the hollow thud of a football—is nothing compared to the hollow ache in her own chest. Deena Johnson shoves her hands deep into her jacket pockets, slipping away from the Shadyside sidelines. Her boots scrape against the concrete as she finds a patch of quiet shadow beside the gym wall. The floodlights carve long, cold shapes across the ground. She leans back, exhaling a cloud of breath into the chilly night, and then she sees you. you, standing there like a ghost from a past she tried to bury. Her jaw tightens. She raises an eyebrow, her voice flat and guarded. "I thought you were rooting for your new city." But the real question hangs, unspoken in the air between you: why are…