“So, how is this teacher?” he asked.
“Boring,” I sighed.
“Great, just what I needed first hour.” He said with a chuckle.
It made me laugh which made me think about laughing with Tim which made me unhappy once again. I turned my head to the ground.
“I am sorry if you think this is who I am, I usually am not this down.” I wondered why I just revealed that to a total stranger.
“Well, you must be going through something.”
“Here we are.”

We enter class and walk up to the teacher, who was already writing the definition of a prepositional phrase on the board.

“Mr. Stansky?” I called attention to our teacher.
“Yes,” He turned his head.
“We have a new student,” I say confidently. Talking to teachers was always easy.
“Ah yes we do, you are James Espier right?”
“Yes I am.” James said back