[There were the kids who'd beat themselves up for achieving anything less, and the kids who were only worried about what their parents would think. Here the latter leads the former, not quite deliberately slipping into a kind of fantasised reminiscence, but still keeping the present well out.]
Maybe I got an A plus.
[And perhaps deliberately provoking a swat in his direction.]
→ we are not what you think we are we are golden
[There were the kids who'd beat themselves up for achieving anything less, and the kids who were only worried about what their parents would think. Here the latter leads the former, not quite deliberately slipping into a kind of fantasised reminiscence, but still keeping the present well out.]
Maybe I got an A plus.
[And perhaps deliberately provoking a swat in his direction.]