Random idea I got from reading the first NERDS book. I hope you like it! Please review! That button down there? It COMMANDS you to click on it! And you better… or else.

Alexi flopped down on her bed, her chest heaving and her face wet from crying. Her insanely thick glasses were splattered with tears. It was only the second day at her new school, and already she'd received a bunch of insulting nicknames. Four-eyes, Bug-girl, Specky… the list went on and on. She was tempted to take off her glasses and fling them across the room, but she decided against it because a) there was a chance they would break, leaving her blind for days or even weeks, and b) there was a much bigger chance that they would break something else, because, she had to admit, they were very heavy and thick.

She settled for crying harder than ever, but these weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of anger. How dare that Brett Bealer! He had better stop teasing her, or else she would… she would do…. well, she'd cross that bridge when she got to it. She did have an idea, but it involved peanut butter, C4, duct tape, M&Ms, and a platypus. She had no idea where she would get C4 or a platypus because, let's face it, these aren't exactly sold at your local CVS.

She glanced at the clock. It was 7:00. Time to put aside her plans to exact revenge on Brett and start doing her homework. In twenty minutes it would be dinnertime, and if she didn't have her homework done by then, well. Her mom would be apoplectic. She pulled her bag over to her side and rummaged around in the mess until she found her homework. Alexi smiled. Pythagorean Theorem! 'Seriously people,' she thought. 'Why bother calling junk like this Challenge Math. Challenge math is supposed to be challenging!' She had her homework finished in 5 minutes flat. She had just leaned back in her bed to relax when she heard a meow from behind the closed door. Alexi stretched her muscles (which were aching thanks to the torture we know as PE), walked over to the door, and let Jinx, the family cat, in. He gave her a look like 'Seriously? I put up with you cuddling with me, and you shut me out of your room?' She said "Jinx, really, I'm thankful…" but she trailed off when she realized she was talking to a cat.

She looked at one of the pictures on her dresser, of her and her best friend Emmi. They had been inseparable, but now Alexi was all the way across the country in Virginia, leaving Emmi in Idaho to fight for herself. She had tried to do everything she could to stop the move, but it hadn't worked. She was now stuck in Nowhereville, Virginia, and it was killing her one bit at a time. As Alexi looked at the picture of Emmi, she remembered the promise they had made before she left. She shut her eyes, letting the tide of memories flow across her. 'We will always be ourselves, no matter how hard it is,' they had said, and then they had spat into their palms and shook, to seal the deal. Well, Alexi was starting to see just how hard that might be.

Alexi was jerked out of her memories by her mother's voice. "ALEXI! Get down here! Everyone's waiting for YOU!" she yelled. Alexi winced at her mom's angry tone. "SORRY MOM!" she screamed down the two flights of stairs. Why, oh why did she pick the attic room? She ran out of her room and slid down the banister, which was much quicker than walking. When she reached the dining room, she saw that she was too late. All that was left for her was the tiniest slice of pizza and half a bread roll. She looked at her younger brother and saw that he had pizza sauce all over his face. Gross. Her older sister reached over and plucked the half of bread roll out of her hands. "Hey!" Alexi protested. "Give that back!" she yelled, lunging for it. Her sister laughed. "Hey, you snooze, you lose, four-eyes," she mumbled through a mouthful of roll, while holding the roll just out of Alexi's reach. Alexi looked pleadingly at her parents. Her mom said "I'm sorry honey, but she bit it. You don't really want it back." Her sister looked at her triumph, and in return got Alexi's best death glare. Alexi sighed. It wasn't easy being the middle child.

What Alexi didn't know was that she was being watched. In an underground lad hidden by a local school quite close to Alexi's home, a man watched her using satellite images. "Interesting," he murmured. "Sir," piped up a boy in the midst of a group of children behind the man the man. The man turned and looked at the boy. "What, Jackson?" he snapped. The boy had and 'Uh-oh' look on his face, but he kept going. "Are we really going to take her? She seems a little-," he was cut off by a chubby Korean girl with a unibrow. "-strange," the girl finished. The man looked angry. He said "We're taking her. No complaints. Plus, you are all strange. I want Duncan to invite her to the team tomorrow at lunchtime. You are dismissed."