Saving The Nerd *SLOW UPDATES*

Chapter 5

I feel my eyes start to droop while lying in bed, waiting for Belle to arrive. Just as I feel myself about to drift off, someone bursts through my door and jumps on my bed.

 "Zelda!" Belle yells in my face. "Don't you fall asleep on me!"

"I'm not I'm not! Now get off of me!" I yell back jokingly. I push her off and she falls on floor with a loud thud.

"Hey that hurt!" She stands up and rubs her butt.

"That's what you get for jumping on me," I smirk at her. She gives me a light-hearted glare back and sits on my bed. 

"So, what happened?" She questions me with a big smile on her face. I let out a deflated breath of air and look at her.

"It's kind of serious," I tell her with a serious tone. Her face goes from a smile to a straight face.

 "Uh, everything ok?"

"Well I think figured out why Corey has no friends."Her faces instantly drops. 

“Well?” She questions.

“I think I figured out the reason why Corey doesn’t have friends.” I start, then she motions for me to continue. "His home life...isn't the best."

"What do you mean?"

"Well his dad is an alcoholic for one thing, and he was hitting on me in a drunken state."

"Wait what?!" She bursts out with a shocked expression on her face. 

"And his mom was screaming at his dad, and I've noticed that his mom looks young, maybe she had him early?" I question out loud.

 "Well I honestly didn't expect this..." She says out loud, stroking her fingers through her hair.

“Neither did I.” I comment back. We both look at each other, puzzled and shocked about the situation.

“So?” She questions 

“So what?”

“What are you going to do about it?”

 “Wait what?”

“How are you going to fix this?” She persists. I shrug my shoulders. How would I be able to solve this? I haven’t dealt with this sort of situation before!

"Well don't just sit there!" She shakes me. "We- you have to do something!" She yells in my face.

"I know I know! But how?" 

"Let's start brainstorming now. Two brains are better than one." She smiles brightly. I roll my eyes jokingly. We sat there and began to think, while I put more detail into what had happened at Corey's house. 

After a while, we started to get the base of a plan going.

"Think you've got it?" She asks me.

"Yea. What I'll try to do is slowly become closer to him and become his friend. I'll stick by his side, improve his home life, maybe get his dad thrown out, and help him get through this year, along with taking his first kiss in front of twenty five students plus a teacher." I repeat back to her. She smiles and claps her hands.

"Think you can handle it?"

"Think? I know I can! I think..." I quietly comment and she chuckles at it. 

"Ok, first thing Monday, go straight up to him and get his number." She demands.

"Don't think he'll get a bit freaked out if I did that?"