But that night, Julian felt a crush for the first time, a real crush.

Julian Norris sighed as he stood in line at the hot dog stand at the LA county fair with this parents who were of course bickering. They do that all of the time, making Julian not want to be around them any longer. He knew in half an hour, his mother would be breaking into the small bottle of vodka she had slipped into her bag this morning, and his Dad would be on the phone to his work people. But at least his Dad's actually here and not working around the country like he usually is.

He glanced around the fair and noticed a...