Chapter 1

William H Kincaid High school is an average mid-sized high school with around 2500 students and a graduating class of about 510 students. Like all high schools, the students there have sorted themselves into various “cliques” and groups.

There are the jocks – the athletic types. WHK has a top-shelf football team and a pretty good basketball team and wrestling team. Along with the jocks ran the cheerleaders who usually dated the jocks.

Then there were the Socs – the rich kids who think they are privileged because their families have money. They figure that they can buy an education and are more interested in image than intelligence.

WHK had its geeks – namely the Goth and Emo kids, oddballs that no one else wanted to associate with. These people were on the outskirts of society and kept to themselves in the shadows and quiet corners of the school.

Lastly was the nerds – the science and math-minded students at WHK High. It was this group that Theodore belonged to.

He was the epitome of a nerd; from his slicked down black hair to his wide collar white shirt and black polyester slacks, his black oxford dress shoes, and three-point suspenders.

To complete his ensemble, he wore the classic black plastic-framed glasses (“B.C.” glasses) with white tape on the nose bridge and a pocket protector for his shirt pocket. Truly the quintessential nerd!

Poor Theodore was always getting teased or picked on in school. It seemed like there was always someone in school (and at times several people) that were giving him a hard time. He had lost count of the number of times he got pushed out of line for something, had his books slapped out of his hands, gotten shoved into a school locker or the girl’s bathroom, or some such humiliation.

Once while he was in gym class, a class he absolutely hated, some kids got into his locker and took his clothes and hid them in one of the school trash cans.

Poor Theodore had to walk through the whole school in his gym shorts to get to the office so he could call his mother to bring him some new clothes.

Naturally, no one came forward to admit they had done it, and his clothes were found the next day by a janitor taking out the trash. But the experience only added more humiliation to his already long list.

But unbeknownst to Theodore, his reputation and standing in the school were about to take a big jump up and his life would change drastically.

It all started when he was a sophomore in high school. He was at his locker getting his books for his next class, when a small group of students came down the hall. Theodore recognized them instantly.

The big guy in front was Todd Peterson the star football player for the school. Draped on his arm was his girl and the head cheerleader, Kimberly Daniels. Flanking Todd on either side were his friends and fellow football players, Randy Phillips and Scott Carpenter.

Jocks, Theodore thought, Why do I always run into the jocks? Theodore and these jocks had a long history – and not a pleasant one from his standpoint.

As they got closer, Theodore tried to not make eye contact, not make any unusual or obvious moves, just hoping that they were distracted enough to walk past him without incident.

No such luck. With lightning speed, Todd’s hand came out and slapped his books out of his hand knocking them to the ground and scattering his papers and schoolwork all over the hall floor.

Taking the cue, Scott stepped on some of his papers intentionally twisting his foot and ripping his schoolwork.

“Oops! Gee, Theo-dork, I’m sorry!” he jeered. The group laughed and as Theodore sighed and bent down to pick up his books, Todd kicked them a short way down the hall.

“Come on Todd, I’m bored. Leave the nerd alone and let’s go do something fun!” Kimberly said. This picking on the nerd thing was really getting old. At first, she thought it was funny – hassling this kid who dressed weird and who acted ... well, nerdy.

After a while, though, the novelty wore off as she saw that he was basically a guppy in a pool of sharks and couldn’t or wouldn’t defend himself. After that, she went along with it because that’s what Todd wanted and she wanted to be his.

She was into status and wanted to be with the “cool” kids. Being a cheerleader, it only stood to reason that she would have a jock as her beau and who else would the head cheerleader date but the quarterback of the football team!

However, this pick-on-the-helpless-game wasn’t fun anymore. She didn’t know if she was bored with it or just getting more mature and outgrowing the childishness, but she wasn’t enjoying it anymore.

“What’s the matter? This nerd deserves it. Look at him – have you ever seen anything so pathetic?”

“Leave him be, Todd. You are too cool to be seen beating up someone like him anyway. Let’s go down to the diner and buy me something to eat. I’m hungry!”

Todd could see that Kimberly wasn’t going to let him have any more fun at this nerd’s expense. “Oh, all right. If I didn’t know better I’d think you were getting sweet on this worm!”

The crowd left Theodore to pick up his books and papers and he went on to class, late and with torn and wrinkled schoolwork, but at least he didn’t get beat up or worse, humiliated.

When Todd and Kimberly got to the Munch Diner, the kid’s local hangout, they found a table in the corner and he got her a burger and fries.

“So are you?”

Kimberly stopped eating. “Am I what?”

“Are you getting sweet on that nerd? You used to like it when we hassled him, You laughed and mocked him too. What happened?”

“No, I’m not sweet on him! Eww! I am just tired of the same old thing. You, Randy, and Scott always giving him a hard time. Why don’t you just leave him alone and find something else to occupy your time?”

“It sounds to me like you are feeling sorry for the twerp!”

“Maybe I am a little. He’s never done anything to you, yet you are constantly on his case.”

Then Todd came up with an idea. “I’m getting paid in a couple of days. I have $200 that says you won’t have sex with the nerd!”

“WHAT? Are you nuts?”

“C’mon. $200.00. Do you know that new pair of shoes you’ve been going on about? That would get them with a little left over. I’ll make it even easier for you. I’ll bet that same $200 you won’t give him a blowjob!”

“Okay take me home! You are crazy Todd Peterson!” She stormed out of the diner and got in Todd’s car in a huff. She didn’t say anything to him the whole ride home.

The next day Kim was talking to Melissa Cartwright, one of her best friends and another of the cheerleaders on the squad.

“I can’t believe Todd! Did you hear what he said to me?”

“No what?”

“He said he thinks I’m getting sweet on that nerdy Theodore Franklin. The one they call Theo-dork. He said he’d give me $200.00 if I would have sex with him! Or give him a blowjob! Can you believe that crap?”

“Well, are you?”

“Melissa! How can you even think such a thing! Of course not!”

“Well stranger things have happened. Who knows, he might be a really nice guy. But whatever. If I were you, I would take Todd up on his challenge and give the nerd a cheap thrill. It would get you $200 and teach Todd Peterson that he isn’t so cool he can’t be replaced!”

“Yeah, but what about my reputation? I would be forever known as the girl who fucked the nerd!”

“Kim, you and I know that reputations in high school never last. Sure you might be the talk of the school for a short while, but the next bit of gossip or the next scandal that comes along and you will be old news!

“And who knows, you might become a hero for knocking down the high and mighty Todd Peterson and those super jocks he hangs around with!”

“So you think I should do this? Give that nerd a blowjob?”

“Not only do I think you should do it, but you should rub Todd’s nose in it. Make a big deal about how good he was or how big his cock was or something. Really make him sweat.

“If he thinks he might lose you to a geeky nerd, he will probably learn his lesson and treat you better. Like his girlfriend instead of some arm candy bimbo!”

About then, the bell rang and the two girls went their separate ways to class. But later that day, Kim got together with Melissa and the third girl in their little circle, Heather Donaldson.

“Heather, Melissa and I have talked about this, but yesterday Todd, Randy, and Scott were picking on that Theodore Franklin kid. I told Todd I was tired of it and he accused me of being sweet on him.

“We got into a fight and he bet me $200 if I would have sex with him or even give him a blowjob. Melissa says I should take the money and rub his nose in it. But what do you think?”

“What do I think? I think your boyfriend is an asshole, to be honest. And yes you should take his money and you should rub his nose in it. You let him treat you like shit, Kim. Everyone sees it.

“You are his groupie, not his girlfriend. He fucks you when he’s horny and all the rest of the time you are nothing more than a knik-knak for him. A trophy girlfriend. Something to show off so he can say ‘Look at me! I have the most popular girl in school. Aren’t I something!’ And I think it’s sickening, quite frankly!”

“Wow Heather, I didn’t know you felt so strongly about Todd!”

“Well, I have kept my mouth shut because he’s your boyfriend. But I don’t like the way he treats you. Or anyone else around here. He acts like he is the king and the rest of us are just here to serve him.”

“Yeah, he is a bit overbearing. Okay, I will do this. But I am counting on my girls to back me up on this. If you hear any rumors being spread about me and this nerd, you squash them.

“I am not in love with this nerd, I am not some loose slut that will fuck anyone, and I am not a whore who fucks for money, okay? I am doing this to teach Todd a lesson!”

The girls giggled and then the conversation moved on to other things. But even as the girls chatted and gossiped, Kimberly kept trying to figure out how she was going to pull this off.

She knew that Theodore would be suspicious – she had been there for many of his run-ins with Todd and had laughed at his embarrassment and humiliation along with him. To suddenly turn and start liking him would be hard enough, much less getting him interested in her in a sexual way.