He pulled it out of his backpack and set it on Tim’s desk. Shawn brought the chess set with him to school one morning. It was ideal for using in a car, or even possibly a classroom. The board was made of metal and the pieces were magnets, so they didn’t fall off accidentally while playing. He had a really cool magnetic chess set which he’d gotten for Christmas the previous year. He’d learned by eavesdropping that Tim loved to play chess. In general, Shawn just continued to be extremely pleasant and friendly to the boy who had humiliated him. He congratulated him on winning the spelling bee. He offered him a pencil one day when his lead broke. He first elected to focus on Tim, mainly because he sat right next to him in class. Instead he opted to kill them with kindness. He remembered Jesus’ instructions about forgiveness: if someone smites you on one cheek, turn the other and allow them to smite that as well. Honestly, he didn’t really understand why they would have anything against him in the first place. He knew they never would help him, but he also knew that he didn’t want them to hate him. So Shawn knew he didn’t stand a chance of becoming friends with these guys as his teacher had suggested to him.
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