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behind me.”
    â€œSorry,” I said. I didn’t know what else to say. I really liked Jamie. I guess I had a crush on her. But she and Lewis had been going together since junior high or something. No way I stood a chance there.
    She took her Diet Coke from Ryland, and I led the way to the back. “Who’s that girl with Shark?” I asked her. “Ever see her before?”
    Shark and the girl were laughing about something. The girl had her back to us. All we could see was her streaked, white-blonde hair down over the collar of her red sweater. Then she turned and we could see her face.
    She had straight bangs across her forehead, high cheekbones like a magazine model, and big, round green eyes. A babe !
    â€œOh, yeah. I know her,” Jamie said. “Nikki Howitz. She’s friends with Ada, but she doesn’t go to Shadyside. She goes to Waynesbridge.”
    We stepped up to their booth. “Hey, whussup?” Shark said. He and I slapped a high five. He gave Jamie a two-fingered salute.
    â€œMove it,” I said, dropping into the booth and shoving Shark over. I kept sliding in until there was room for Jamie. Shark introduced Nikki.
    â€œWhat was so funny?” I asked.
    â€œYour face,” Shark replied.
    â€œShut up,” Nikki said. “You guys are friends, right?”
    â€œNate is my friend, but I’m not his friend,” Shark said. He giggled. Like that was so funny.
    â€œDon’t pay any attention to him,” Nikki said. “Ask him how many beers he’s drunk.”
    Shark’s eyes did look a little funny. Like they were floating around loose in his head. I squinted at him. “What’s your problem, man?”
    A sly smile spread over his face. “Do I need a problem?” he tilted his beer bottle at me in a salute, then took a long pull.
    â€œYou’re friends with Ada, right?” Jamie said to Nikki.
    â€œShut up. How’d you know that?” Nikki replied.
    â€œShe talks about you sometimes,” Jamie said. “You’re a swimmer, right? All-state or something.”
    Nikki grinned at her. “You know everything about me.”
    â€œAda and I were counselors at the same camp,” Jamie said. “Camp Running Cloud? We hung out a lot. Really got to know each other.”
    Shark slid his arm around Nikki’s shoulders. “Nikki and I are going camping,” he said. “Just the two of us.”
    She gave him a hard shove. “In your dreams.”
    Shark laughed. He turned to me with a wide grin on his face. “Know what I did toCandy Shutt tonight? You gotta hear this.”
    Jamie narrowed her eyes at Shark. “What you did to her?”
    Shark nodded. “She’s trying to get back with me, do you believe it?”
    â€œHuh?” I exclaimed. “But she dumped you. ”
    â€œYeah, yeah.” Shark’s grin faded. “That’s old news.”
    Candy really messed Shark up last year. I mean, he was totally into her. And then she lied and said she had the flu, and he saw her that night making out like crazy with Andy Johnson in the backseat of Andy’s car.
    Shark was, like, blown away by that. I mean, totally hurt. Of course he never let on. And he never said anything to me.
    You’ve gotta read between the lines with Shark. You have to know him as well as I do, or else you’ll never be able to read him. Because he never lets on.
    But he did some wild things after that night. He’d get really tanked at Nights, and then he’d go out and pull up mailboxes and break some windows. And he stole a car and drove it around all night. Then he returned it before the owner woke up in the morning.
    He’s a good guy. But he can go a little nuts.
    I’m the calm one. Everyone says, “Nate is low-key, not temperamental.” Sometimes I try to tell Shark to take a breath. You know, count to ten. But how do you hold back a shark?
    â€œOkay,