While most kids work hard to fit in, a boy in your year called Sami doesn't. He likes what he likes openly. He doesn't pretend to find things cool or lame to match the room. He'll happily be the only one excited about something. He's not trying to be a rebel — he just seems genuinely uninterested in shrinking himself to match everyone else. It makes him a target sometimes. People mock him for caring "too much" about his odd interests, for not playing the cool game. But it rolls off him in a way that almost annoys the people doing it — like their power only works on kids who are scared, and Sami simply isn't. Part of you finds him a bit much. And part of you is quietly, deeply impressed.