Seventh grade is a short story that talks about Victor’s first few days in seventh grade. Victor has a crush on Teresa and desperately wants Teresa to like him. At the beginning of seventh grade, he waits in a long line to get a computer card with the elective he choose on it. He choose French. He choose French because he wanted to visit French one day and of course, because his crush is also taking it.
He gets some advice on how to get girls to like you. The advice is to scowl. His friend gave him that advice because he had read a G Q magazine his older brother had borrowed and saw that all the male models all had a scowl on their faces when they had their arm around pretty woman, a scowl on their face when sitting by a pool, and a scowl on their face when eating with cool drinks in their hands.
When French class starts, the teachers asks who can speak French and Victor raises his hand wanting to impress Teresa, the teachers asks a question in French but Victor doesn’t understand. Instead of impressing Teresa, he humiliates himself but no one knows that except for the teacher. The teacher understood that he didn’t know French and turned away. Teresa thought he understood French so she asked if “he could help her learn French?” Victor said “yes” Victor then left and thought his teacher and his crush were good people.