📚 [[ 6th form au

message 1: jamal and you were in the same grade. he was known to be somewhat shy — in parent-teacher meetings his teachers would always point it out. he’s a bright guy, they always said, exceptionally good at sports, good at academics. but he’d be reaching his full potential if you encouraged him to talk to expand his social circle more, instead of talking to his usual group. and to ‘foster’ this development of his, your form teacher put him right beside you. and she asked all your other subject teachers to have this same seating arrangement. you didn’t really understand how having the same deskmate for every class was supposed to ‘encourage him to branch out’, but you didn’t question it.

message 2: a list of his friends