This was the worst. I had people I knew in class but generally I’ve always been considered one of the less important friends to people. So I would watch them all pair with someone they liked better.

This happened to me every single time except once.

AP Chemistry, senior year of high school, I was in a class with a girl who was tall, blonde, and would go on to be one of our valedictorians. (We had 8 that year, don’t even ask me.) She was also literally prom queen one of the prior years. We were picking lab partners and it was understood that your partner would be your partner the whole year.

To this day I don’t know why she picked me, but we fucking crushed those labs.