answer:1) You didn’t have to sit in that seat. 2) You didn’t have to let your “friend” cheat off you. 3) You should have told your “friend” that the behavior was unacceptable and that they should do their own work and get their own answers. 4) If the person cheated off of you, you should have let the TA know immediately after the test. If they took your paper, you should have taken it back immediately. There is no reason for someone to be taking you paper. The distracted/scared/unable to complete the work is nothing to the fact that this person is cheating. You are at fault here for cheating. This is inexcusable. What the TA does about it is up to them. Telling them that they’re not doing their job of preventing cheating and that they need to do a better job at their job isn’t really going to help anything. You need to report the cheating as it happened and tell them that you didn’t know how to handle it at the time but decided the best thing to do is to report the cheating, despite the effect it might have on you. Request that the TA review the test papers and look for the similarities that you know are there. Do not tell the TA what to do. That is not your job. Your “friend” needs to be in trouble. Tell the TA that your paper was taken from you and that you are notifying them of cheating. This person is going to be in trouble, best case scenario is that you manage to get out of it without being in trouble for allowing it to happen. You’ve been participating in the cheating, allowing it to happen. You did not object to your paper being taken, you did not report it sooner. There is no reason why anyone should “not want to get anyone in trouble,” trouble had been earned. This person is no friend of yours if they’re going to risk you both being expelled at worst just because they don’t want to do their own work. Do the grown up thing and make the report and accept the consequences of your and your “friend’s” actions.