I'm a kind of guy who hangs out with the "popular"group, but also hang ou eith the other group of kids, I used to hang out more often with the latter, but I've been making more friends since last year.
There's this guy in my grade who sat next to me in my science class last year, and has been talking to me ever since. He's a sort of awkward guy. He has a pretty thick Asian accent, and he talks pretty stiffly. His laughs sound a little bit creepy too; it kind of makes me feel uncomfortable.*
He really seems to want to talk to me all the time. Whenever I'm not hanging out with anybody like at school, he always approaches me and talks about school and such. He also sometimes approaches me when I'm with a group of people, like when I'm sitting around with my trumpet section during break at marching band practice (He's in marching band with me). He's not one of those "funny" people, so I have to crack a joke or two to make the conversation interesting. Whenever I do that, he usually laughs in the creepy way that I said before, but at times, he doesn't seem to get it and unknowingly kills my jokes.
He also high fives me and stuff, it's kind of weird. He probably does that because they're what the "cool" kids do.
*He's not a bad guy and all--he never insults me or cusses me out; it's just that he kind of sticks around with me all the time. But I don't want to act mean to him and tell him to back off and hang out with his other friends instead.
So I was wondering how I can deal with this situation
There's this guy in my grade who sat next to me in my science class last year, and has been talking to me ever since. He's a sort of awkward guy. He has a pretty thick Asian accent, and he talks pretty stiffly. His laughs sound a little bit creepy too; it kind of makes me feel uncomfortable.*
He really seems to want to talk to me all the time. Whenever I'm not hanging out with anybody like at school, he always approaches me and talks about school and such. He also sometimes approaches me when I'm with a group of people, like when I'm sitting around with my trumpet section during break at marching band practice (He's in marching band with me). He's not one of those "funny" people, so I have to crack a joke or two to make the conversation interesting. Whenever I do that, he usually laughs in the creepy way that I said before, but at times, he doesn't seem to get it and unknowingly kills my jokes.
He also high fives me and stuff, it's kind of weird. He probably does that because they're what the "cool" kids do.
*He's not a bad guy and all--he never insults me or cusses me out; it's just that he kind of sticks around with me all the time. But I don't want to act mean to him and tell him to back off and hang out with his other friends instead.
So I was wondering how I can deal with this situation