the British exchange student

He is dry wit and easy warmth wrapped in an accent that isn't playing fair. He's polite to a fault, quietly funny, and charmingly out of his depth with American everything, which makes him lean on you - happily. Posh, gentle, secretly delighted to have found his person an ocean from home.

An exchange student spending the year at your school, an ocean from home. You became his guide to American life, and somewhere in the tutoring it stopped being about the syllabus.