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Title: The Thing About Nerds
Summary: Sure, he wasn't the school star and he got made fun of. But being a nerd had its perks.
Rating: T
Main Character/Pairing: Kairi, Kairi/OC
Genre: Humor
Warnings: Innuendo, set in Kairi's senior year.
Inspiration: Random icon on the internet.

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"Hey, watch it!" one of the big guys that always seemed to slam into him growled. He purposely knocked the book Kairi had been holding out of his arms, snickering with his buddies. "That's what you get, you little geek."

Now that he had switched schools and could no longer be counted as a Guardian—and therefore a cool kid—he was used to getting called things of that nature. Geek, dork, but their favorite seemed to be nerd. It seemed that because he knew how to read and spell, he was a social pariah. Few people spoke to him in anything other than an insult, but he didn't need friends.

Actually, the truth was, there was a large population of girls that still stared at him. Not in the you-have-something-on-your-face way, but more the I-wish-I-could-talk-to-him way.

When one girl got up the courage to ignore any possible ridicule she might get, she asked him out on a date. He'd shrugged it off, telling her that he didn't have time for dating, for a girlfriend. He had finals to pass and he planned to get the highest marks in his class.

As she walked away, a few of the girls giggled, making fun of her for getting shot down by a nerd. But it made him chuckle to himself at the girl's come back.

"I only did it because of a rumor I heard," she said before lowering her voice to a stage-whisper. "Nerds have big hard-drives."