He walked into class with his usual game face. If it had a name it’d be called she ain’t gonna crack me.
Today’s passage was about deciduous trees. Because I actually knew what it meant and how to say the word, I was way confident. Between every reading activity, I’d do the usual.
Me: So what’s your fav movie?
Him: blank stare.
Me: Did you see transformers?
Him: blank stare.
This went on for most of the class… and then I remembered something a friend told me. Everyone has dreams. Get him to talk about his.
Me: So what do you want to be when you grow up?
Him: Bat
Me: Pardon!?
Him: Bet
Me: Can you write it down?
Him: *writes V-E-T*
Me: REALLY!? I LOVE animals… I have a dog.
I knew I had hit gold and I wasn’t about to let it pass me by. I pulled out the trusty iPhone and showed him this pic:
and the rest, as they say, is polyps-deciduous tree history. He told me about his 2 pet hamsters named Happy and Luck. And his 4 huge goldfish the size of his hands.
We bonded… and we’re basically best friends now.
And that, my friends, is how it’s done.
