Beauty and the Nerd

**Lucas**: **He clears his throat.** Umm... Maybe you should... Go sit with your normal friends. **He looks around, everyone in the quad seems to be staring in their direction because Mandy is sitting with them.**

**Mandy Lane**: **She gets up and shakes her head.** See you two later. **She smirks at Yuri and turns, walking back towards the table with the jocks and cheerleaders.**

**Yuri:** **He dips another fry as he thinks about the party and Ruby Rhod.** That party was...really fucking weird...

**Leena**: What party? What the hell happened?

**Lucas**: We'll tell you later, after school. **The lunch bell rings.**

**Leena**: You better...

**Mandy Lane**: **She sits down at the lunch tables, pulling her small jacket around her. Some of the guys are still staring at her, but as usual, she doesn't pay much attention to anyone she hangs out with. Most of them really just keep her around because she's one of the hottest girls in school and they don't want anyone else "taking" her.**

**Out of all the guys at the popular table Isaac stands out a lot but only for the wrong reasons. Unlike the fit jocks he isn't wearing a letterman jacket. In fact Isaac isn't even on any of the sports team. He's a 17 year old nerd who does the homework for many of the popular kids. In return for getting them good grades, to stay on the team, they don't beat him up.**

**He's wearing a long sleeve shirt, colored blue and dark grey to match the school colors. Not what he normally wears but he was forced to so that he could sit with them at lunch. He wears glasses that he requires to see anything well, going legally blind when they're taken off. He's 5'6 with a very slim body, he doesn't look like he'd be able to stand up against anyone in a fight. His skin is very white despite his name and his hair is brown all messily pointed up, not spiky but a nerdy messy "stylized."**

**Isaac**: **He's sitting down at the table, only looking up at Mandy when she approaches for a second before quickly looking back down to finish the homework for one of the jocks since the bell rung only a few seconds ago.**

**As all the other guys grab their stuff and head for class Leo is still sitting there as he and Isaac have their next class together anyway. He's about 6', athletically built, with wavy brown hair and brown-hazel eyes. Unlike most of the jocks he actually gets decent grades on his own and doesn't really depend on Isaac. He's a "closet nerd" who plays a lot of video games and Magic the Gathering with Isaac and a few of the other nerdy kids at school. They even go to pre-release tournaments, with last month being the most recent. Instead of heading out to the party up in the hills with everyone else, he, Isaac, and a few other guys went to the local card shop for a special Friday Night Magic event.**

**He used to play Baseball, being one of the best sweepers the school had, but his base-running speed caught the eye of the football coaches who practically forced him to sign up this year. Because of this he doesn't have a letterman jacket of his own yet, and he's still kind of treated as the "scrappy" by a lot of the other jocks, though he does have some respect from him as he was great at Baseball in the previous years and made a name for himself in the schools popular kids circles. His full name is Leonard Brennen Joseph Connor, with both Leonard and Brennen being his first name, but people just call him Leo or Connor.**

**Leo**: **He looks at Isaac, Mandy is still sitting at the table looking through her backpack.** Who are you doing that for anyway? **He's wearing a simple brown shirt with a button up light jacket with rolled up sleeves, and blue jeans. He pulls his backpack over one shoulder as he gets ready to get up.**

**Isaac**: **He's about to open his mouth to say who but one of the jocks shoves him to the side, almost making him fall off.**

**Ricky**: **One of the more muscular jocks grabs his homework from the table and looks at it before looking down at Isaac.** This better get me an A, Pipsqueak... **He puts it in his binder and walks away with his group of friends.** Catch you later, girls. **One of the cheerleaders gives him a small nervous wave goodbye, obviously having a big crush on him.**

**Isaac**: **He looks slightly angry but more miserable as he searches for his glasses that were knocked off onto the table, finding them and putting them on. After making sure they're not cracked he takes them off and starts wiping any dirt off them.**

**Leo**: Why does he gotta be such an ass?

**Mandy Lane**: **She's pulling out a piece of paper from her backpack.** I think they're just bred to be dumb and angry.

**Leo looks at her. She's never said anything to either of them before, since she never seems to say anything to anyone. She looks up at him for a moment, almost like she just realized that she said that out loud, then looks back at her paper and opens a large science book, putting it between the pages.**

**Leo**: ...So umm... **He looks over at Yuri and Lucas, who are still sitting at their table, both of them have completely ignored the lunch bell and are just drinking their sodas. He looks back at Mandy.** You know the uhh, the twins?

**Mandy Lane**: **She looks at him for a moment and then back to her pack as she shoves her book into the too-small backpack.** No, not really.

**Leo**: Ah... Umm... **He watches as the 20/20 lady shoos the twins away from their table and makes them go to class. They're obviously annoyed and Lucas throws his lunch and drink into a bin. Immediately after the 20/20 lady motions for them to go to detention.** ...Oh.

**Mandy Lane**: Didn't you play baseball or something last year? **She looks at him, almost judgementally.**

**Leo**: Yeah... But I got onto the football team this year. **He sounds nervous, wondering what she meant by that.**

**Mandy Lane**: **She just shakes her head, grabbing her things and walking away from their table. She stops and turns, looking at Isaac very slowly.** Have you taken AP Math?

**Isaac**: **He gulps and nods instead of saying something without looking at her, almost afraid to.**

**Mandy Lane**: I need a tutor for Calc. Mr. Hill is... **She shakes her head.** You doing anything after school today? I have a test on friday I need an A on to pass the class.

**Isaac**: **He adjusts his glasses as he turns to look at her, surprised and nervous.** You want me to-to be your tutor?

**Mandy Lane**: I was going to ask that other guy... Umm. **She thinks for a moment.** Joel? **She says his name wrong.** But I thought I'd ask you first.

**Leo**: **He's surprised she even knows Joel's name and raises an eyebrow.**

**Isaac**: **He gulps again as he's putting his papers into his binder.** Joel said he's too busy to tutor anyone. I can do it, Mandy Lane. I'm not busy.

**Mandy Lane**: Cool. You wanna meet somewhere after school? **She looks at Leo for a moment before looking at Isaac.**

**Isaac**: The-the library?

**Mandy Lane**: The school library?

**Isaac**: **He nods again, feeling like asking her to go to the public library would sound too weird and might scare her away.** If that's okay with you, Mandy Lane.

**Mandy Lane**: Alright. See you there after school then. **She looks at Leo, who seems to just be staring at them.** What's your deal?

**Leo**: Nothin.

**Mandy Lane**: Right... **She turns away and heads towards her math class.**

**Leo**: Wow. Time alone with Mandy Lane. What you going to do? **He looks at Isaac.**

**Isaac**: **He puts everything in his backpack and stands up, looking up at him.** I'm-I'm going to do my best to teach Mandy Lane arithmetic progessional mathematics.

**Leo**: **He raises an eyebrow at him with a wide smile.** Man, you're lucky to be with her after school...