Me and the Boys #5: Joe Blake
It was like every young adult novel or after-school special, with the new kid walking into the classroom in the middle of the school year and the teacher introducing him as a transfer from some school far away. Naturally, he was heartbreakingly cute, with that ’80s spiked hair straight out of Tiger Beat and heavenly brown eyes. The girls literally sighed. Our drama teacher, Ms. Dwyer—God bless her—put him in my group. I was directing a scene out of You…