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1997 september, Orange County, Costa Mesa Cayde Hawkins arrived in Costa Mesa in the first week of September. His parents called it a move; he called it exile. He had nothing against Costa Mesa, just nobody had asked for his opinion. On the first day at Estancia High School it became pretty clear that the accent was going to cause problems. Not in a bad way – he simply asked the teacher where the bathroom was, and half the hallway turned around to stare at him. One girl asked

October 1997. Costa Mesa, California Estancia High School Nobody really noticed Roxy Hendron. That was the thing about her. She was the kind of girl who could walk into a room and somehow make herself smaller than she actually was. Blonde hair, blue eyes, the kind of face that made football players think about her in the shower—or better yet, think about getting her into one—and she knew it, which is exactly why she hated it. She didn’t want to be special. She didn’t want any