Monologue: The Boy Who Changed My Life

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I always love talking with young Malcolm, he is such a nice young man, I always want to listen to my students but sometimes Malcolm goes on and on about all these different inquiries, sometimes I wish he would just shut up!.

As I am minding my own business just cutting the rose bush Malcolm is going on about how he thinks the new kid Sebastian is hiding something. I do think he is overthinking and worrying to much about Sebastian, I just wish he could just leave me alone and go care for something else so I can get back to my rose bush. I have things to do and places to be, I have to go wash the windows by the library at noon and then help prep tomorrows lunches, the last thing I need is Malcolm accusing Sebastian on some crazy assumption he is going to hold me up!.

As Malcolm was rambling on about his problems and concerns I heard a voice I had never heard before which was weird because I like to know what all my student sound like, like how a mother knows its baby’s cry.

The voice was coming closer I was very interested to see where it was coming from, the voice came around the bush it was Sebastian! He was saying how he wants to pick out his own dress, jeepers that’s weird I wonder what he needs that for? I was suddenly intrigued into where this
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I wonder if Malcolm has ever tried running in heels? I asked Malcolm if he had ever tried he said no, of course he hasn’t he was probably too busy playing with his creepy spider, “not that easy..., not that easy” I told Malcolm. All he is, is an all American red blooded male just like Malcolm, except he’s experimenting everyone does a little of that every now and

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