Disastrous meeting

“So class,today we'll be having a new member joining us. I hope you would be nice to him”,said Mr. Michael as he introduced Alexander the newcomer to the class. We were in the second term of the academic year and no one was expecting a new classmate to join us.

I,whose family was currently in shambles had my mind elsewhere that I hadn't even noticed I had a new desk mate until he had tapped me on the shoulder to ask me to move my bag which was currently on his seat. Startled me,proceeded to question him as of why he had chosen to sit beside me and not anywhere else. “Were you even paying attention to the teacher?”,he asked sarcastically with a smirk on his face. “What has he got to do with my question? ”,I replied. “Well,since you aren't aware. Let me inform you. ”,he said as he sat down on the chair beside me. “I was asked to sit beside you since you're the smartest in the class and also the only one without a sitting partner”,he continued with a shrug. At this juncture, I was lost for words so I just nodded and looked away.

Throughout the remaining lesson,I could feel his eyes burning a hole through my face. I was quite uncomfortable and I had wanted to ask him why he kept staring at me. Soon enough, the bell rang for break and we all rushed out for break. I was the last to leave the class since I wasn't really feeling myself that week with all that was going on at home. It was either I wasn't paying attention or he had done it on purpose, Alex and I bumped into each other as I tried walking out the door,which ended up having me land right on my butt and hands as I fell. I who was burning up with anger, immediately stood up and gave him a big push which made him fall down in a similar posture, only this time around he had scraped parts of his left palm.

I was either unlucky or very unlucky, my teacher had seen what I had done and I was punished for supposedly “bullying” the newcomer. I tried to explain myself but the teacher wasn't hearing it,all he believed was what he saw and the fact that Alex had refused to confirm what I had said had happened made it even worse. And now,I was more than convinced that he had done it on purpose.

That day, I left school feeling more depressed than I had been when I had left the house in the morning. One reason for feeling more depressed than I was,was because I had unintentionally hurt my new classmate, the other was being punished for something I didn't do on purpose and the other was becoming something I didn't intend on becoming “A BULLY! ”.

As I walked out of the school gates with my younger brother after school,I thought to myself that; “Tomorrow will be a new day,I'll apologize tomorrow. Maybe he was just angry just like I was that's why he didn't say anything ”.

Back at home,I had a lot of homework to do to even notice that chaos that was continuing around me. All I had on my mind was, “I have to study hard so that I can be successful, I need to grow up quickly so that I can move out and be independent ”. That was 8 year old me who was in the 2nd grade at time's premature thoughts and coping mechanism to remain sane with all that was going on.

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