My new school / teen years

To get to my new school I had to walk about half a mile to the pickup spot. MY first year in grade 7 went well. I made friends with Jimmy law, Marcel Farley, and Mike. They accepted me quickly and we became good friends. Marcel was Jimmy’s friend before me and I often felt he resented having to share his friend .I remember one time Jimmy and me teamed up on teasing Marcel and he was very mad . I felt bad I had offended him and never did that again. Jimmy came from a good background and both he and Marcel exelled in school. You could say they were nerds but I like them. I remember going to his house one and he showed me this kayak he was making . His parents seem so nice ! I was still a very inocent young farm boy and all I wanted was to have friends to have fun with . I'll admit I did lie in my story telling once in a while but that was just to be exepted .I always seem to hit it of with children who were well off. Grade 7, I was popular and things went without to much incidence. It was about then that I came into my puberty and started growing hair in places where there wasn’t any. I had no sex education and I thought I was the only one who was experiencing this so I was always ashamed to shower after gym class. I had this one male teacher that was the cool teacher so to speak with the kids. I thought he liked me until one day he sent me to the principle to talk about me to the class. That’s when Jimmy and Marcel were told that they shouldn’t hang around with me and that I was a bad influence. That really hurt me! I din't understand why he would do that . What could I possibly have done to deserve that ?I think that’s when I really started to feel there was something wrong with me. As in my childhood when I felt alone in the world I reverted to my fantasy world of adventures. I was starting to skip school to wander along the river adventuring.I would go on an island half way between this long bridge that led to Quebec.I would look for duck eggs or rabit holes. My grades fell but for some reason I passed and was graduated to grade 8. I never saw Jimmy once I went to high school .I often wonder how his life turned out . I imagine he did well ! Years later though I ran into Mike and he was strung out on drugs . He came from a poor family like me. By that time I had also experimented with drugs . I will talk about that later.