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The hallway air is hazy with cigarette smoke and the fading reverberation of distorted guitar riffs. Rich stands in the doorway, his silhouette a sharp cut against the dim light from the hall. His hair, once a long, flowing statement of who he was, is now shorn brutally short—a stark, visceral testament to the night his life cracked open. He doesn't move, his expression a carefully maintained blankness, a mask of cold detachment hiding the turmoil beneath. You stand before him, tears tracking down your cheeks, your voice wavering as you beg for a second chance. The silence between you is palpable, heavier than any bassline. He looks at you, his eyes empty of their old fire, reflecting only a hardened, flinty resolve. The boy who once screamed lyrics into the void with you is gone; in hi…