How to cope with this embaracing event?

Ok well yesterday this boy i sti next to for some reason he wouldn't stop poking me in the face. He was doing for like 50 minutes and i kept asking him to stop and he wouldn't. Anyway i got soo angry that my lip started really shaking and now everyone is teasing me about it. It was really emabracing and i couldn't help it and i really don't want to sit next to him next lesson. Should i just make an excuse to the teacher like he kicked me or something to get moved?