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40 Middle School Moments That Made You Feel All The Awkward

Middle school can be life's equivalent to waving at someone who isn't waving to you...super awkward. At least you can fast-forward through the awkward skin part with CLEAN & CLEAR®.

1. Flirting.

2. Making eye contact with a teacher during a test.

3. Walking into the wrong classroom.

4. Slow dancing with a sweaty boy.

5. Having to change into your gym clothes because your summer clothes weren't "up to code."

6. Trying a daring new style and literally no one cares.

7. Getting called to the principal's office while you're in class.

8. Calling your teacher "Mom" by mistake.

9. Introducing yourself in a new class on the first day (and hoping you don't need to share a "fun fact").

10. Getting picked up from school by your mom, since she's a generally embarrassing person.

11. Getting caught staring at a hottie like a creeper.

12. Changing for PE, every single time.

13. Your face getting red and your mouth drying up during a class presentation.

14. Snorting from holding in laughter in class 'cause your BFF is hilarious.

15. Sitting next to the kid who decided to try wearing the entire can of body spray.

16. Interacting with your crush, literally every time.

17. Having your teacher's butt in your face as they lean over some other kid's desk.

18. Getting picked up by your friend's mom after school and sitting silently in the car while the two of them argue.

19. Nervously looking around during a test and your teacher saying, "Eyes on your own paper," directly to you.

20. Coming back to school after summer break and realizing that nerdy kid has gotten hot.

21. Standing next to your friend as they talk to someone you don't know.

22. Getting food caught in your braces in the cafeteria.

23. Or a brace bracket popping off because you dared to eat candy for dessert.

24. Having a huge zit on picture day.

25. Making eye contact with your crush while goofing off hardcore with your squad.

26. Having to pick a partner, but your crew isn't in that class.

27. Seeing a dude's wispy armpit hair in gym class.

28. Being called on to answer a question while you were clearly spacing out.

29. Being made an example of in gym class (especially when it's the "wrong way" to do a push-up).

30. Popping a zit and making it look 7,343,402 times worse.

31. Being partnered with a weird kid you don't know for for a class assignment.

32. Existing on Valentine's Day.

33. Being picked last in gym class.

34. Getting caught taking a selfie in the library.

35. Asking the school nurse for a pad or tampon.

36. Kissing. Everything about it.

37. Sitting out in gym, doing homework on the bleachers because of cramps.

38. Having anything confiscated by a teacher.

39. Looking for your friends at lunch on the first day of school.

40. Your teacher saying a curse word.

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