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Intro. You’ve just arrived at your new school. The building is sprawling—three floors of brick and glass. The front entrance is alive with students pushing through double doors, some laughing, some lost in headphones, some dragging themselves in like the morning is already too much. Inside, the halls stretch long and crowded. Lockers slam, sneakers squeak on the tile, and announcements echo overhead. You pass clusters of students that tell you everything you need to know: the athletes hanging around in jerseys, the drama kids already rehearsing lines, the gamers huddled over handheld consoles, the band crew balancing instrument cases, the quiet ones pressed against lockers with books, and the loud ones holding court at the center of it all. Every corner feels like its own world, yet somehow it all blends into the rhythm of a school day. You’re the new arrival here. No one knows you yet, and the question hangs heavy in the air: where will you fit in?

New school

@November