Part 1A
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Simon was annoyed with Nick again. They had been friends a few years at school but since they started secondary school Nick had been neglecting Simon to try and hang out with some other kids. They had been placed in the same technology group and Nick would always want to try and sit with the so called popular kids but this time it did not seem to go that well.
Simon watched as Nick tried was asked to sit somewhere else by a more popular kid named Gary. It seemed that neither Simon or Nick liked Gary much as he seemed to always seem to want to get his own way and as Nick was trying to sit next to Allen, another popular kid he was told to move so that Gary could sit there.
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Simon was sitting in the row behind in the workshop while the class where waiting for the teacher to arrive to start the lesson and as usual everyone was arguing over where to sit. Simon new the score, he would sit at the back and wait for the other leftover kids to be sent to sit with him if there was no room at the popular tables. This time it was Nick who would be sent to sit next to him.
'Go on, move!' demanded Gary as Nick looked at Allen and some of the other boys sitting at the table.
'To be fair, Gary usually sits there,' added one of the other boys.
'Yeah, it is his seat,' said another boy. Accepting defeat Nick reluctantly backed off and looked around to see if there is space anywhere else.
'Sit next to Simon if you want?' suggested Allen who seemed to be one of the more fair boys. Nick knew that he had no choice and even though he tried to look around the workshop to see if there was any more space the teacher had come into the classroom and demanded that everyone who was still standing to sit down. Nick went and sat next to Simon while feeling frustrated at the rejection. What if Gary had been in another group instead? Perhaps he could have easily got on with those other guys who did not seem to mind him that much. It was just Gary who had that problem with him and so Nick would hate on him for the rest of the day.
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'What's up with you?' asked Simon feeling amused at what had happened.
'Just Gary being a dick,' replied Gary feeling defeated.
'Oh well,' said Simon 'I guess that they did not want you sitting there?'
Simon was experienced at dealing with this kind of behaviour. One of his other friends had seemingly favoured another few boys and one of them had warned Simon not to hang out with them around the school. It could be a cruel place at time but these boys were all twelve years old and some reaching thirteen so there was a lot of mixed feelings going around. Everyone was growing up and trying to fit in and the pecking order had been decided. Simon knew that he was pretty much at the bottom of the pecking order but Nick would refuse to accept that place. For Nick he had a few friends in their previous school but like with Simon they seemed to have gradually paired off with other people. Nick hated the feeling of rejection but Simon was somewhat more used to it.
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