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Mr. Green's

It all started in 9th grade. We were both in Mr. Green's math class together.

That entire year had been very boring. Nothing much had happened. Then 4th quarter came around and we had to switch seats like we did every quarter. I was really sad when I found out we had to switch because I was able to sit with my friend at the table I was at before.

Mr. Green went through his "randomized" list of where he was putting everyone and when he got to the second to last table he said, "Kevin, Josh, Greg, and adeleigh".

I was so upset. Not only did I just barely miss the table my friend sat at which was the last one but I also was put on a table with two boys I didn't really know at all and with Kevin, again.

All year long, every quarter without fail, Mr. Green had put me on a table with Kevin. He had some anger issues that made it very difficult for him to get along with people and get things done. I was one of the only people in that class and honestly the school that was actually nice to him so Mr. Green thought it would be a good idea to have me by him.

One of the biggest problems I have is that I can rarely ever stand up for myself. All I want is to make people happy and when I get in situations where people treat me bad, I don't handle it the best. I let them do and say what they want and never say anything about it even though it hurts me that they're fine treating me that way.

With how Kevin was, he treated me very bad. Me being me though, I never did anything about it. One of the biggest reasons for that was because I also knew that he had problems at home that made him become this way. I felt bad for him. So every time I tried to help him with his math and he would scream at me for no reason, I just continued helping.

Anyway, going back to when I got my new table. I went and sat down and Kevin sat there angry as usual. The other two boys though started talking and laughing. They apparently were friends. I listened to their conversations and they actually were really funny.

All year long after the table switch was really fun. I always loved going into math when before that I didn't ever want to go. Of the two boys I talked to Josh the most. He was just so easy to talk to and seriously one of the most hilarious guys I had ever talked to.

There were two main days I remember from that class after I started talking to him. One of them was when I came to school that day with pink eye. I didn't want to go to school with everyone being able to see that but I really hated missing so I decided to go. My eye was seriously so pink and gross so all day I tried to keep my head down as much as possible. When I came into math I continued doing that and Josh definitely noticed.
He asked me, "Are you okay?"
I replied "Yeah I just...".
I paused for a moment there. The rest of the day before that, if anyone asked about it I just told them I had bad allergies. Lame excuse, I know, but it was all I could think of because I felt so embarrassed about it. When Josh asked me about it though, for some weird reason, I felt okay telling him what it really was.
"I just have pink eye" I said.
He could tell that I was embarrassed.
"Oh I hate pink eye, it's never fun. Don't be embarrassed of it though, everyone gets it at some point" He said.
That one sentence was so small but so huge to me. I had never had a boy be so nice to me about something like that. That's when I started to realize how I was beginning to feel about him.

The next main day I remember was a test day in class. I had studied so I was perfectly prepared for it, but Kevin on the other hand was very much not. Two or three minutes into taking the test he was grunting and becoming very frustrated. I felt bad for him and had all my instincts kick in. I knew that I wasn't supposed to talk or help anyone during the test. I knew though that if he got too loud, Mr. Green would get mad at him which would make Kevin more out of control. I really didn't want that to happen to him so I tried to get his attention to show him my paper. As I was starting to do that I looked over at Josh and he shook his head with a very serious look and mouthed, "don't". I knew exactly why he did that. He was trying to protect me from Kevin getting mad at me. We had a conversation after the test when Kevin wasn't by us.
"I hate how he treats you, you don't deserve it and he doesn't deserve how nice you are to him." He said.
That sentence was like the sentence with the pink eye. It was so small but so huge to me. He cared about me and how people treated me. Not a lot of people really had shown that they cared about anything like that in the past. Then you get this boy that I had only been talking to for a month who cared that much about me to protect me like that. That also made me realize how I felt about him a lot.