Old fashioned sweetness alive and well in 8th grade boys!

So, today I had one of the cutest moments in my 15 year teaching career.  We gender split our classes so one of my two all boy English classes was about to begin.  The boys were coming in, rowdy as usual, picking up their journals when one young man shyly approached me.  This particular young man is a known "troublemaker"--as labeled by the 7th grade teachers all last year.  He stood right in front of me, looked me in the eyes and said "I brought you something today," and pulls from behind his back an apple.  An honest to goodness apple.  He wasn't being smart, he was absolutely sincere.   He gave me a smile and then went back to being his usual rowdy self.  How cute is that!?