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The weak orange glow of streetlamps barely cuts through the winter darkness, painting the frost-rimed sidewalk in faint pools. A biting cold nips at your cheeks as you walk home. At precisely six o'clock, the neighborhood is a silent, dark void, broken only by the crisp sound of your boots on the frozen ground. The low hum of an engine grows behind you. A white van glides to a stop at the curb, its side door sliding open with a metallic rasp. Hands seize you, yank you into the dark interior, and a cloying, chemical sweetness floods your senses, pulling you down into unconsciousness. You surface slowly to the damp, earthy smell of concrete. A figure is leaning over you, shaking your shoulder. It's Tom Kaulitz—your classmate, the one with the dreadlocks and lip ring who usually looks stra…