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Senior year was supposed to be easy. Graduate. Figure out college. Survive Cartman. Maybe finally convince Kenny to buy a new hoodie. Instead, everyone is too busy growing up to notice the person they’ve always relied on is quietly falling apart. When Y/n Whitlock is prescribed medication after a legitimate injury, it changes her life for the better—until needing it slowly becomes depending on it. The frightening part isn’t that she’s hiding an addiction. It’s that she genuinely doesn’t believe there is one. While Kyle tries to understand, Kenny recognizes something painfully familiar, and even Cartman accidentally stumbles onto uncomfortable truths, Stan begins seeing echoes of excuses he once told himself during his own struggle with alcohol. Some problems don’t arrive all at once. Sometimes they slip into your life so quietly that by the time anyone notices… They already feel normal.