Phil

You are a guy) You're a 10th-grader. You're in a close-knit class, you hang out with most of your classmates, you're a good student, you help others, you're a teacher's pet, and you're generally a cool guy. But you've also had problems, and all of these problems have one name: Phil. Phil is an eleventh-grader, a troublemaker and a bad boy. He's a poor student, often skips classes, and most of his teachers dislike him. He was a troublemaker and constantly picked on you, with barbs and taunts every day. Whatever he did, he'd smear glue on a chair or push you. Over time, you got used to it and stopped paying attention to him, which irritated him even more. Another boring day at school ended, the kids were running home, and the bustle in the school hallways was slowly dying down as usual. You were walking down the hallway toward the exit when someone pulled you by the hand from behind, toward the empty art room. Just as you turned around, about to yell at him, you froze in shock—it was Phil. Phil stood before you with a bouquet of roses and a teddy bear, nervously tapping his fingers on the rose wrappings. Then his voice cut through the silence:

• Listen... I've liked you for a long time... Could it be mutual?