He look perfect. The perfect tan, the perfect brown hair, the perfect blue eyes. There was only one minus point to him. He was just a little shorter than me when i first saw him. Well isn’t there to everyone.

Well, don’t want to bore you, let me start this story…

Have you ever heard a saying, that goes a little like this,

‘Your sitting plan could decide your whole future’

Well that seems to become true to me. We settled into our new classroom seating plan, it started off like every other year. Introducing ourselves with our desk buddies. At that moment I don’t know why but I turned around and introduces me and my friend to Max and his desk buddy, William. This small action, this small word changed my life.

Max’s and mine worlds slowly started to grow collide and were almost like friends. When we had to pick our sport for the sports day we had ever Tuesday 4th period, i had originally picked Basketball, but my first ever new friend abt this school, Isabella Newton, had convinced me to play touch. Newton we nicknamed her wasn’t exactly the sporty type, she was more of the study type. Using her very smart brain she finally convinced me to join her as she would be lonely and it would be fun. The friends i use to sit in primary and at the start of grade 7, Newton and me, we all went to the touch trials. I knew with just one glance we weren’t going to make it. We didn’t even know the first thing about touch expect for its name. I don’t know how, but fate and luck were on our side that day. I didn’t t even know that he played Touch. We were just doing some warm ups with passing and throwing the ball. The coach that was supposedly going to ‘coach us’ if we made it through that say seemed familiar but also scary. I realise that he was my sisters teacher at one point. I asked him about it and he also remembered. When we finally got our results back I defiantly didn’t expect me and all my friends name that tried out to be there. With this reason me and Max had a another topic to talk about. During one of the lessons in math, I was talking to Max about the dive techniques that we were learning, and he started discussing about he had a huge scrap on the side of his stomach. He even proceeded to lift his shirt to show us. Another time he even said that he would die without me. I looked at my friend dead in the eye and smiled. He realised what he said and quickly added

“Because maths is boring,”

Half way through the term Siara went on an early holiday overseas for 2 months. Since we were in a 2 seats sitting plan, I felt lonely. I felt bad but I also took advantage of the situation. I started to talk more than ever to Max. We would talk about our fav movie to our test grades. When we had our science diagnostic test back he started to rant on about how much higher the mark that he got. Honestly, even the teachers were saying how heard the test was. I was secretly impressed. Other times are when we had a brain break half way through the lessons. Our class had a silent compition about who would get the gorilla skin first. Max and I use to compete the most and a few times he would get up and quickly change the gorilla to a different one so his friend would get the gorilla.

The thing was that he almost found out one time out of his teasiness. (I know that’s not a word but i like Shakespeare okay) It was a chill day and i was passing notes with a classmate. She sat right behind him. Her name was Chloe and she was one of the popular girls. She suddenly started asking if I liked anyone. I couldn’t say that he was sitting right in front of her. Will was not sitting there that day. Anyways, that’s when Max suddenly started to grab the notes and read them. Me and Chloe would try and snatch it off him but sometimes he would catch them but he wouldn’t catch the actually one. I was kinda scared but he did grab one and started asking me and i was like

“Im not going to tell you!”

Me and Max got in a lot of trouble because we talked in class a lot.

Sometimes, when Pranav went to the bathroom or to the teacher, Max would play the most ridiculous jokes on him. One time he hid Pranav’s iPad under his pencil-case. He didn’t find it at first but he quickly realised and Max had this big grin on his face filled with proudness.

One of the assessment in English was doing a presentation. Through out everyone’s performance Sir, put a timer and so did Max. He would complain just to us, how much off the student or our teachers timer was. He had done everyone but mine. I was a little confused. When it was his turn, he asked Pranav to time him, but he gave the excuse that his iPad had died and could no longer do it. Max looked sad so, like any ‘good classmate’ would do (Not sure if we were friends?) I offered to time his for him. He agreed and he was just 9 seconds off the maximum that we could do.

There was that one moment that made me not give up hope. It was when we were in history, and we started off the class with things we already knew about the government parks and things. We all got up in groups to write on the whiteboard something that we know, and pass it on to the next person. When I finished and turned around Max was getting up from his desk. My stomach was suddenly filled with butterflies. He reached his hand out to grab the whiteboard marker from my hand. I kept my calm and held the tip of the pen. Little did i know that he was going to grab the whole pen. Including where my hand was positioned.

“Okay, so who needs help?!” I asked my friends.

“Yes, please, gosh, please help me,” they all called out.

I walked towards them and started helping them. The questions were quite simple in my opinion. I got to Gaby, Siara, and Lilliana, then I progressed to Ireh and Freya. They really didn’t need by help, but i just wanted to check up on them to see where they were at. Suddenly out of nowhere i hear Max yell

“Hey, Isabella Darcy needs some help, go and help him!”

Than Darcy yelled, with a hint of surprise “NO! Go and help Max, he likes you!”

I was just stunned at this, and both were even smiling and a little light red was seen on Max’s cheek. They kept arguing like this about who i should help. This went on for 1 o 2 mins. I tried to walk away, when my friend Olive grabbed the sleeve of my jacket and pulled me towards them saying that I should go and help them. It was a little obvious that it was a small joke, but i also had no idea what to do. I quickly tugged on the sleeve, which slipped out of Olive’s hand. I rushed back to my desk. I couldn’t help but smile after that for the rest of the day.

We had to build a ramp that a car can easy and quickly go down. The thing is, i was also doing a drama assessment performance with Jacob. We were the only boy and girl pair as well, and bonded quite quickly.

Activity was on the teachers desk, at the middle front of the classroom. Me, my back facing the front of the class, was busy trying to make a large ramp. My friend were busy making their own and talking to Kai. Jacob suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and added small bricks, that may or may not have destroyed my ramp. We starting laughing as well, by the stupidness of this. But than I heard a rapid sounds of feet approaching us, and from the Conor of my eye i saw Max and Darcy. Before they could get to us, the bell suddenly rang. I believe that i felt jealously from him.

I got annoyed and wanted to take revenge, so I turned towards my class and, yelled just enough for them to hear, to ask if they supported the shipping of Kai and Siara. Nobody listened. Then siara took this opportunity to ask if anybody supported Blondie and I, and of course Kai put his hand up. I decided to call to one of my friends across the classroom, Newton, who was trying to study and asked again holding to grab some of the other classmates attention and it did work. It even grabbed Maxs attention. I chose to do something stupid, and asked him if he supported there shipping. He looked at me dead in the eyes, smiled and nodded, and also two other female classmates nodded as well. Another classmate said she created the ship first.