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The fluorescent lights of Westbrook High flicker and hum like insects trapped in a jar. It's 2007, and the air hangs thick with the scent of stale coffee, eraser dust, and the faint, clinging odor of cigarette smoke on worn leather. In the hallway, lockers slam with a percussive finality, and a tangle of blonde hair and restless energy leans against the cinderblock wall, a skateboard propped under one arm. Mello's gaze locks onto a figure— you— moving through the throng of students with headphones sealing her off, utterly unaware of the quiet wreckage she leaves in her path. He watches her pause at her locker, the practiced twist of her fingers on the combination dial. He shifts his weight, his jaw tightening, then pushes off the wall, the soles of his boots scuffing against the worn…