i love all of this. he definitely could have seen the fight, he was always trying to be that silent kid in the corner that was ignored, not always successfully. new york, especially the first year, was a trip. if she came then, she'd have recognized him pretty easily. after that it would have been a little more difficult, he found his way around 19 and went from this to this and has since kind of balanced somewhere in the middle. he was much more sassy/out of his shell by new york so he would have probably at some point told her how she made him feel in school