Tragedy of a Nerd

by Jack-N-Walker


Grade school meeting

"Jack, come on honey, I have an apple juice box ready for you." My mom, Mary, smiles as she gently wakes me up. Her attempts at waking me up are successful and I open my eyes. "There's those beautiful, sapphire eyes I love so much." She kisses my cheek and I giggle, squirming about.

"Mommy, Stop! You're giving me cooties. I don't need kisses. I'll show you by getting myself dressed." I puff out my chest and my mom decides to play along.

"Alright then, Mr. Big man, I'll be waiting in the kitchen for you." I jump out of bed in my white undies, and get dressed then brush my hair, standing on a stepping stool to see the mirror and begin brushing my teeth. I rinse my mouth out with water and tie my shoes as I put on my favorite Nintendo, Legend of Zelda shirt on and a pair of green cargo shorts with my shoes and run downstairs.

I am hit with the smell of french toast and syrup with apple juice and coffee. I jump into my chair, beaming with pride, "See Mommy and Daddy, I'm a big boy, I got dressed all by myself." They smile at me as my dad takes another sip of his coffee and kisses my moms cheek. "Ewww! Gross! Daddy kissed Mommy! BLECH!!!!" I take a sip of my apple juice, as my parents stare at me with adoration of their little black haired, blue eyed, lightly tan skinned son.

"I'm proud of you son." My dad smiles at me as I smile with a little apple juice dripping down my chin.

"Be more careful, Jack." My mom says as she wipes my chin with a napkin gently and I resume eating the french toast.

Half an hour later I get up and run to the stairs, "I'll go get little sissy up, Mommy." She smiles and nods to me as I run upstairs and wake up my little sister Joan (pronounced Jo ann.) "Jojo, time to wake up. it's your first day of first grade!" She gets up, giggling and hugs me.

"Tank you, big bubby!" She runs around in her Dora the explorer onesie. She settles down and I help her get dressed.

"You get french toast for breakfast!" She squeals with joy, french toast was always her favorite. As soon as she is dressed she runs to the kitchen to get breakfast in her booster seat. I walk into my room and pick up my backpack, with my gameboy advance, as well as my yugioh cards, then walk downstairs and wave to my little sister, "Bye sissy." She waves, unable to speak with a mouthful of food, so I pick up my lunch box and make my way out to the bus stop.

On the bus ride my friend Frost saved a seat for me. "Jack, over here!" He waves his arms excitedly so I take the seat next to him and we talk about all of our nerdy habits, Playing pretend being one of them. Later in life we will come to know this habit as role-playing. Being the kids we are, Frost and I begin playing pokemon, on a journey to find Pikachu just like ash in the cartoon. Frost and I both spend the time on the bus grumbling about the dark cave, and all the Zubats we encounter but the bus comes to a stop at the school so we save and quit.

I stop off at my class after waving goodbye to Frost. I look around the desks for my name since we were all put in alphabetical order so I sit in the desk at the back of the class. "Awww....I don't get to sit next to the teacher." I whisper to myself a bit down but I cheer up once I sit down and put my lunch box away. I look around at my classmates and notice they all have something I don't, a group of friends. In a futile attempt to make friends, I try to jump into a group conversation but get ignored, so I try again with a different group but get the same result, and a few more times with the same result. Downcast I sit in my desk and see a girl with pretty pink hair, cowering in a corner so I approach her.

"Hi, I'm...um...My name is Jack. What's yours?" I extend a hand to shake hands and she whispers.

"I'm Fluttershy....Nice to meet you." Smiles a little and shakes my hand.

"Where did all your friends go?" I ask and she looks around then shrugs.

"Maybe they're in another class." I Puff up, in an attempt to seem cool but fail miserably.

"Don't worry, I'll be your friend." I smile and help her up from the corner and to her desk as she smiles to me and we begin talking about all of her favorite things and in general having a great time until class starts then I wave to her and move back to my desk. All through the class we smile and wave to each other and get our things done, occasionally answering questions then recess/free time comes along and she goes outside to meet her friends and have a grand time while I meet with Frost and we sit as reigning champions of yugioh teams of the second grade.

He nudges my side as he catches me staring out the window at the pink haired girl. "Hey, I see you looking at her, remember pals before gals, I thought we where brothers!" I smile at him,

"I would never leave you for a girl." He stares mouth agape at a rainbow haired girl. He gets up and makes his way outside. "Frost!!! What happened to pals before gals?!" He turns around and shrugs.

"Sorry, I made it up to keep you from abandoning me." I get a shocked face as he disappears.

"Even you abandon me...." I shed a tear, as he leaves me and sadly shuffle my yugioh deck, seeing all the challengers ahead of me, miraculously I keep all of my magician cards, my favorite being dark magician. The bell rings and I go back to my desk.

With my deck in perfect condition and spirit hurt from Frost's little stunt, I sit in my desk eager to see what is in my lunch box so I pay attention thinking it will make the time fly by, and it does so when Lunch time comes around I ignore Frost for abandoning me and I sit at my usual table, next to the lunch lady, looking though my lunch box and see a letter from my mom, 'Have a great day at school hun, Mommy loves you.' The o in loves and mommy were in the shape of hearts.

I smile and put the sticky note under the top of my lunch box so I could look at it as I ate. Today I had an apple juice box, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a fruit cup and a swiss roll for dessert of some sort. Little to my knowledge, Fluttershy had sat down beside me. "H-h-hi Jack."

I jump and hit my leg on the cafeteria table, and suppress a squeal of pain. "Hi..." I say a bit labored. I get over the pain and continue eating lunch, "Please don't sneak up on me like that again." She nods and opens her lunch to fruits, veggies, and a pudding cup for dessert.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" I shake my head and I get swarmed with her friends around the table as Frost and Rainbow are having an eating competition and the rest are having a grand conversation with Fluttershy. So being the odd man out i just resume eating in silence until I hear my name called. "J-Jack, you seem quiet." I look around to see her friends and Frost staring at me. Then my awkward nature kicked in.

"I...Uh...You know...Um...I was only eating, sorry." I look around and that answer seemed to appease everyone because they resumed their conversations so I finish my lunch and head to the playground field, sitting at the baseball backstop, waiting for Frost so we could Pokemon battle. He never showed up, but Fluttershy somehow found me.

"Jack, what are you doing back here...If you don't mind me asking." I look around to see if there was another person named Jack around, all this attention was weird to me, especially since it came from a girl.

"Oh, I was waiting for Frost so we could play Pokemon together. Seems like he is playing with your friend." I look over to see Frost and Rainbow having a race to see who was faster. "Well...I guess I lost Frost." I look at the little bench I was on and Fluttershy sits next to me.

"You...You could always play with me, I don't like sports all too much, so I sit and watch the others as they play." She says as she scoots closer wanting to watch me play so I let her watch as I battle LT. Surge.

"It's always fun to battle with some one watching." I say to her and smile, she rests her head on my shoulder and watches me play. I smile a little more, feeling fuzzy inside.

The week progresses on, as I become closer friends with her and Frost gets closer to Rainbow but we all make time to see all of our friends. My mom was starting to become suspicious and even a little jealous of my new found friend because Fluttershy began making lunches for me a couple days out of the week. Since they were great I wasn't complaining. She even came over with her friends and played dress up with Jojo while Frost and I played the Nintendo 64 with Rainbow Dash. I put my controller down as I lost my last life. "I'm gonna go get a juice box, you guys want one?" They both nod so I head down stairs to grab a couple of juice boxes and hug my mom on the way back up. "I love you, Mommy." I smile and she kisses my cheek.

I head upstairs and give Frost and Rainbow their juices then hear a knock at my door so I open it and see Fluttershy and Joan. "Buver? Wanna come see a play?" I think it over and then look at them both.

"Sure, why not." I smile and follow them to my little sisters room and they put on the play. A drawn poster saying beauty and the beast scrolls as Apple Jack brings it across and hides out of the way and the blanket moves.

Rarity obviously was the costume designer and pinkie was the control booth, or what they had of one, Twilight was the script writer, Fluttershy was Belle, and Joan was the teeny tiny beast. Needless to say the performance went well, and it was fun to watch. Since it was the weekend My little sister asked if the girls could stay for a sleepover and so I decided I'd just keep Frost for the night to keep myself from getting bored so the girls called their parents and they all agreed, and Frost's parents knew me well enough to know I was going to keep him for the weekend so they didn't mind, sometimes our parents would swear that we shared a brain. Rainbow retreats to her friends and my little sister and so Frost and I just sit and play games on our Gameboy advances as we battle gym after gym to beat the game and find Pikachu.

Apparently at some point the girls invaded my room to watch Frost and I battle it out on the 64 in super smash brothers, even betting lunches on who was going to win, Fluttershy had bet on me and Rainbow on Frost then Rarity as well as Pinkie followed Fluttershy's lead, where Twilight and Apple followed Rainbow's. Ten minutes into the match, and Frost as well as I were still unaware of the bickering girls until Jojo hugged me, and yelled, "Get him bubby!!!" That got me worked up...I couldn't let my little sister down, she looked up to me as her bubby. I silently apologized as I picked up my skill level to beat Frost.

After a hard fought battle I was declared victor and I jumped up, hugging Fluttershy, and picking her up, due to her being light, I mistook her for my little sister until the let out a little squeak so I put her down, blushing. "S-Sorry, Fluttershy." She had a small smile and she was blushing as she and her friends as well as Joan, went back to my sisters room and they were all giggling about what happened and whispering about how they thought I had a crush on Fluttershy. "Frost....Can I just disappear..."

He put a hand on my shoulder and shook his head. "Sorry, but that only works in magic and cartoons."

Later that night, Frost and I were still playing games as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash came in. "I-I had a nightmare, and Rainbow can't sleep, can we sit and watch you guys?" Frost and I looked at each other and the silent agreement was there, neither of us had a problem with it so I turned back to them.

"I guess so...If you don't mind sitting with two boys." They closed the door behind them sat next to us, and as a week before, Fluttershy laid her head on my shoulder, smiling contently. So I turned on the 64 for Frost and Rainbow. "So...are you feeling better?" Fluttershy nodded and I felt it on my shoulder so I smiled. "That's good, Do you want to talk about your nightmare?"

She hesitates but nods. "I'll tell you in the corner," so we moved away from the other two. "My nightmare was about you, and you were being mean to us all and completely hated us. You even y-y-yelled at me." She sniffles and tears up so I think fast.

'Come on, Jack, what would your mom do in this situation?' I get and idea, so i hug her and kiss her forehead like my mom would when I was littler. "It's okay, it was only a dream." She calms down a bit.

"Th-thanks Jack, you're a great friend." I smile and look at her.

"No problem, Fluttershy." She yawns and falls asleep half an hour later so I pick her up and put her back in my sisters room, and Rainbow follows, falling asleep next to her, light snores emanating from them all so I head back to my room and Frost as well as I fall asleep, concluding the night.