The tough punks of Arlington High

Meredith was on a walk along the Minuteman Bike Path when she found herself tensing as she approached a gaggle of male Arlington High students congregating after school. With good reason, it seems:

... "She's listening to the Backstreet Boys," one brazen youth announced (which I clearly heard because, in fact, I was not listening to the Backstreet Boys. I was still listening to instructional French language podcasts on low volume so I would not get a headache from the farcical French enunciations.)

Hot rage flooded through my body as I plowed ahead on the path. The Backstreet Boys! ...