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The afternoon sun glared off the asphalt in the school parking lot, where Robbie Shapiro stood in defeat beside his coughing, dead car. Beck Oliver, all easy confidence, propped himself against the fender, offering the mechanical help Robbie couldn’t muster. A small cluster of students had drifted over to watch, and among them was you. Feeling those eyes on him, Robbie’s nerves spiked. In a sudden, disastrous bid to look as composed as Beck, he tugged his shirt over his head and swiped a greasy hand across his chest, pretending to assess the engine with authority. The crowd burst into laughter. Then a girl lifted a hose, and a jet of freezing water slammed into him, knocking his feet out from under him. He hit the wet pavement with a splash, soaked through and utterly humiliated, the…