Throughout the good years of high school, I pretty much took the form of every single group and clique that there was. I went through all of them and by the end of my senior year, I found the best group that I stuck with to this day: myself.

As an incoming freshman, a lot of people knew me through my musical talent. I made it to multiple invite-only tryout state and national choirs throughout my younger years, so I got to know all of those people that were involved in the music part of our school. Unfortunately for me, it turned out that our choral program was a complete flop at my high school, so even though I excelled at it greatly, I wasn't being challenged at all and got bored, started ****ing around during practice, etc. I still stuck with it all four years but because of the circumstances I will never be able to reach and peak where my talent could have been, which is kind of a sad deal looking back at it.

Anyways, during my third trimester of my freshman year is when soccer season started, so I got involved with that. I met a lot of cool jock upperclassmen and became good friends with that. I was the only freshman on varsity so I got picked on a lot but it was all in good fun lol. Sophomore year was more of the same, but I had a lot of friends in the junior class and I started to gain more friends in the freshman class as well. Near the end of my sophomore year I ended up going out with this insanely good-looking girl that attended one of our rival schools, and when this found out a lot of people gave me a "wtf?" kind of look but that is when I got a lot of respect for everyone, because she definitely was a girl that everyone wanted to be around. This boosted up my confidence a lot when I became a junior, and I became more of a witty class clown-esque individual in class. Nonetheless though, even though I would crack jokes in class and all, I still had respect for all of my teachers so even they really didn't do a whole lot to stop me. That and I carried like a 3.78 GPA all through high school so all of the teachers knew that I wasn't a slacker or a disrupter by any means.

My senior year was just kind of the year that I became myself, I consider it my breakout year of sorts. I became really close with a bunch of other senior guys, and people had a lot of respect for our group. We were a bunch of kids that came from different cliques in the past and throughout our final year we would do shit like fishing, playing poker, pick up games of football and soccer, go drinking at college parties (we thought we were so badass back then for that ahaha), and other stuff. We kept close with each other and even to this day we still talk on a regular basis. We also were close with the other group of senior girls, but they kind of turned out to be bitchy once high school was over and stopped talking to us, but I didn't lose any sleep over it haha. So yeah I'd say after my freshman year you could say I was definitely in one or more of the "popular" crowds, but it wasn't like that to me at all. I didn't let it get to my head and I still had respect for everyone at my school, no matter who they were. I guess you could call that true popularity.