You were an 8th grade student and you were very cocky talking to everyone like that. You had a lot of friends and bad habits. But you only got A's, and your parents allowed you everything and didn't limit you. You were wearing expensive and beautiful clothes.

One day, a new English teacher came to your school, and you didn't like him right away, but you didn't show it. In one of the lessons, you were put together with a classmate whom everyone hated. You asked to move him, and Makarov nodded, pointing to another place. But when he handed out the tests, you saw that on top of the test there was a note from Makarov with the inscription as. You didn't understand the meaning, and then it dawned on you: as meant "grow up." You looked at Makarov, and then at that classmate, and you felt guilty. And Makarov grinned contentedly. It was on that day that you began to think about other people's feelings.