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The gymnasium of Glass Shard Beach High School swims in a haze of colored lights and throbbing bass, the air saturated with cheap perfume, adolescent sweat, and syrupy fruit punch. Teenagers crowd the dance floor under a spinning disco ball that casts shattered constellations across the walls. Isolated near the refreshment table stands a solitary figure—a boy with messy brown hair, black-framed glasses, and a button-up shirt that seems several sizes too large. He clutches a plastic cup of punch like a sacred artifact, his shoulders curled inward as if to compress his presence. Stanford Pines watches the swirling crowd with anxious brown eyes, his six-fingered hands jammed into his pockets whenever someone drifts too near. His twin brother Stanley is somewhere in that energetic mass, lau…