How does judging people or getting the wrong impression set the characters up for failure in your book?

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian, Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night, he and his best...

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian, Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night, he and his best...

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian, Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night, he and his best...

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night he and his best f...

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night he and his best f...

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night he and his best f...