What? I'm a nerd!

Chapter: Frick I meant nerd

Okay guys, just a fair warning before you start reading. The main character, Mark (the guy who's POV you're reading the story from) is a little bit...arrogant. Fine, who am I kidding, he's VERY VERY x 100 arrogant. So don't take whatever he says to heart. It's just a story I came up with for fun, I don't mean to hurt anyone. There isn't anything that I think is hurtful in it, but better be safe than sorry, like people take everything too seriously these days, so yeah.

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I had once witnessed a TERRIBLE crime. A crime so terrible, that I won't ever be caught doing. It was so terrible, horrifying, devastating, disappointing, frustrating, depressing-

Okay I'll stop that, I'm not a walking talking Thesaurus.

The crime was my best friend or should I say ex-best friend, Kevin, he was annoying so it wasn't much of a loss, I mean obviously being the smart person I am, I only need books, right? Sniff. No I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweating.

Wait. Where was I again? Oh yes, the crime. Sorry, I have a bad habit of getting distracted a lot. Shall we continue then? I had caught my best- ugh, Kevin, cheating.

To you it might seem pretty normal. I bet you are thinking "hey man, it was just cheating. Why the duck are you overreaching?" And I know the 'duck' part isn't right, what I mean is, the word that is formed when you replace 'd' with 'f'. Yup, that makes sense now, right? I kinda sorta have a problem with swear words. I'm good boy, okay? And good boys don't swear.

Shi- I mean fit, I got distracted again.

I was saying, to you it might seem normal but for people like me it is a sin that could land you to the darkest pits of Hades. And Hades, in context to the above lines means hell, not Hades the god.

You might be wondering what I mean by like me... aliens? Demigods? Or LORD VOLDEMORT (I wish it would be nice to be so powerful that people were even scared of your Name.)

I meant Nerds. 'People like me' as in Nerds. Not the candy, the label which is given to people who study a lot. And I'm not your average nerd. I'm a S-class nerd (get it fairy tail fans?) To all those non-otaku people out there, I mean that I am above the average nerds. I am the kind of Nerd that completes whole month's homework in one day, is teacher's pet AND always gets full marks in every subject.

So you know why I was overreacting, right? Go judge someone else then.

Time for the flashback,

Once upon a time, long long ago, during the Paleolithic age when people hunted with stone tools, there lived a handsome boy- haha, it was just two months ago. And if you're not as smart as me, which you obviously aren't , Paleolithic age means old stone age.

So two months ago, we had our grade ten pre-boards. Which is like a mock test before the final exams. In my country, grade ten is like the making or breaking point of your career, so it was pretty important.

Kevin and I were sitting in the same classroom because our roll numbers were consecutive. It was the science preboard, and I was merrily writing away everything I knew while humming blood, sweat and tears by BTS (I don't know the lyrics but the tune is pretty catchy.) I finished the paper before everyone else because science is just so easy (I'm a nerd, okay? Don't judge)

And I saw something which was so unbelievable that my eyes widened, a gasp escaped my mouth, I pinched my cheek to check if it was a dream or not. And I'm kidding, none of those things happened. I was just kind of shocked to see my best friend at that time, Kevin cheating.

He was asking the girl sitting behind him, the answer for the second question. I think her name was Mara or Cara or Natasha Romanoff... I don't know okay? She did have red hair so could even be Ginny Weasley.

I was scared for my friend, because it was TENTH PREBOARD annnndd our invigilator, Mrs. Jenkins, was the scariest person alive. Looking at her huge form, cold eyes, gorilla like mouth and the unibrow could even scare the bravest person on earth. Man, I still get nightmares. Shudder.

"Kevin...don't cheat, man." I whispered. In the midst of the Exam hall. With the invigilator standing right in front of us. Right. Cue the face palm. Both Kevin and the Weasley turned to look at me.

"WHO SAID THAT?" Roared the Godzilla- uh... I mean Mrs. Jenkins. Being the sweet, little, innocent angel that I am, I raised my hand. And regretted it instantly. I froze as I saw Mrs. Jenkins stomping towards me. The ground vibrating with every step she took. The mere memory of it still gives me goosebumps.

"I was just asking Kevin not to cheat." I squeaked out. It may have sounded like 'Imuskinkevinotea.' But somehow with her rabbit ear, Mrs. Jenkins understood.

"Oh I know all about your type, I've seen you sitting idle for quite some time now. Its obvious that you were the one cheating not this Kevin guy... Right class?" The class nodded in agreement. Did I mention that Kevin was extremely popular, especially in the girl department, and the majority of people sitting in our class were girls?

You might be wondering why a popular guy like Kevin was my friend. We had been friends ever since I let Kevin copy my homework in kindergarten. We had been friends because Kevin always copied my homework and I never had any other friends because, well nobody wanted to be friends with a nerd. This is a pain only me and my fellow nerds would understand. Oh the pain of being smart. Sniff. No I'm not crying, my eyes just took the occupation of clouds and are performing their duty, which is- to rain.

Mrs. Jenkins (I hate her), snatched away my paper and deducted five marks from it. Seeing the red ink on my paper almost brought tears to my eyes.

After the results were announced I found out that I had gotten 95 out of 100. I was devastated, those were the lowest marks I had ever gotten in my life.
(I'm not even gonna bother explaining the nerd thing again.) I locked myself in my room for days.

Now I'm over it, though.

Just last week we had our final exam. And I saw Kevin cheating again. My eyes widened ( I'm still not used to it) and I opened my mouth to warn him but I quickly stopped. That was when Kevin faced me and smirked. Even though I wanted to go give him a Bruce Lee kick right on the hippo face of his, 'stay out of trouble, Mark' I chided to myself.

But I have two good news:-

1) Kevin was caught and the teacher took away his paper.

2) I scored the first rank in the whole of my country.

What? Its because I'm a nerf.

Frick, I meant Nerd. Not Nerf. Go to Hell - I mean heck, autocorrect.