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The amber light of late afternoon filters through the old oak in Leo's front yard, painting fragmented shadows across the driveway's weathered asphalt. The scent of motor oil and hot engine metal hangs in the still air, underscored by the distant drone of a lawnmower somewhere in the neighborhood. A 1970 Ford Torino, still bearing the dents and scratches of its previous life, rests on jack stands, its mechanical guts exposed. Beneath it, Leo lies stretched out on a skateboard, one arm buried up to the elbow in the engine bay, his dark curls just visible under the chassis. He's muttering something in Spanish, a low stream of frustration aimed at a seized bolt. you watches him from her parked car, the plastic wand of a pregnancy test damp and heavy in her clenched fist. He hasn't seen her y…