So Wyatt and I, I would give him a hard time about being a bumble bee fan from the Transformers movies, and he would tell me he was a Megatron fan, and I would say, “No.  You said you were bumble bee.”  He’d give me a hard time, and he’d always yell my name, “Barrington!” And I knew he was coming.  We had a very good relationship, and I first met him in the gym, in P.E.  Then, in the last few years, in the hallways, he always had a smile on his face.  I could always count on, when he was here, my name would be yelled out in lunch or the hallway, and I’d give it right back.  So by the end, once he got over me giving him a hard time about Bumble Bee, he became Megatron, and that’s what he will always be to me.  I think Wyatt is one of a kind. The ability he has had in our school to raise everybody’s spirits, regardless of what he was going through individually.  Anytime he was in a room, he lit up the room.  The pink out game this year, when the student section was chanting his name, when they brought the flag to him to wave, things like that don’t always happen. With Wyatt, it was amazing to have happened because everybody genuinely loves that kid, and he is the one person who always has a positive outlook.  He’s always talking to somebody, always communicating, checking on everybody else when we should be the ones checking in on him.  His personality is one of a kind and it’s something that I think our entire school could learn from.  He’s put things into perspective.  What he’s gone through the last four years, I will never understand.  But every single day that he’s in this building, he brings positivity.  There was never a day when he was negative. He was always, “What can I do to help everybody else?”  He was always smiling and checking on me— “how’s your day?”, asking me how my boys were doing, asking me questions like that.  He’s the kid who worries about everybody else and not himself. He’s definitely a special individual, and I’ve been fortunate, just like everybody else in this building, that he’s been in our lives these last four years.  Wyatt has definitely changed my perspective on things.  If the world can have Wyatt’s outlook on life and personality, we’d be a way better place.  He’s definitely made me a better person because I see what he’s going through on a daily basis, and if he’s being that positive all the time, why can’t I?  I think he’s a natural-born leader.  I think the things that we’ve gotten to know him and be around him, it’s so contagious, and I hope everybody in this building and our school system takes something from him.  Always be kind, and good things follow. I think Wyatt is a person who has been dealt a very bad hand.  He doesn’t deserve the hand he’s been dealt, but he’s handled it with class and grace, with dignity, and if the rest of us can learn anything from Wyatt, it’s to be a good person. He is not a good person; he is a great person, and the world is in a better place for it. My probably three favorite memories with Wyatt would be: at the pep session this year, when he came down and spoke in front of everybody and had everybody cheering and clapping and chanting his name; the pink out game when he was waving the flag as he was on the court being honored for being a survivor; and also the shirts that Coach Harrison and I had made with Megatron on them, and I did not see it on Facebook but I saw the screenshot sent of him he posted the picture of Coach Harrison and I wearing the shifts and—I’ll never forget it—he said: “this is Barrington and Harrison and I am megatron.”  That was his Facebook post, and those are three things that sit out with Wyatt with me.  Wyatt, we love you, buddy.  We’re all grateful for our time with you.