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Hello!

If you want anything in random, you might consider reading this. Credits to Mr. Belvedere Goes to College for the story inspiration. If you're up for something fun, this story is for you. Pardon for grammar errors since english is not my first language.

P.S.R-13 but not matured content for curses and stuffs. 

 

Regards,

nerd 

 

The Complexity of being a Nerd

 

 

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On the dining table, in the Kim’s residence…

 

“Mrs. Kim, I don’t need to go to college! I’m already a prodigy!” said a young looking brunette girl who looks like she hasn’t comb her hair for weeks. She’s wearing a gray sweater that looks too big for her petite body. She has this large eye specs and she carefully examined her food before she eats it. “Butter, Sodium and Sesame oil…This contains a lot of calories Mrs. Kim.” she commented as she looked at the mashed potatoes on her spoon.

 

“You’ll go to school to make you even smarter…And just shut up and eat what’s on the table smarty pants.” Said her mother as she passed a pitcher to an old man which was her father.

 

“Thanks.” The man said

 

“But people on school are senseless!” the girl continued to argue

 

“And so are you!” uttered by the girl’s blonde younger sister who was sitting beside her. Her younger sister was laughing way too much for the girl’s liking.

 

“Hush woman, you’re breathing too much oxygen more than what you are entitled through this space.” the girl with the specs commented

 

“You’re really weird!” her little sister spat back

 

“I’m not weird, it’s just some people around me do not have enough understandings on their brain. And an exhibit is you.”

 

“What did you say?”

 

“I was just making a supporting statement regarding your written legal document called transcript.”

 

“My grades are okay!”

 

“Yeah, like a doctor said that an ICU patient is.”

 

“I’m so gonna kill you!”

 

 

“KIM HYOYEON AND KIM TAEYEON!” their father yelled and it stopped all the commotion on the dining room.

 

“You miss smarty pants… You’re going to college and that’s final.” The man said to the girl with the specs called Taeyeon “And you little brat… You’re not going to your friend’s party.” He said to the younger girl named Hyoyeon

 

“BUT FATHER!” they both said in sync

 

“ENOUGH!”

 

The two girls were left speechless on their seats.

 

 

 

===

 

On their sleeping time, Taeyeon and her sister Hyoyeon were bickering quietly on their shared room. They were afraid that their parents might hear them.

 

“This is all your fault! What will my friends say to me? They might think I’m a kill joy!” Hyoyeon whined

 

“You try to fit yourself in a crowded box, you ought to get out of there and see what you’re missing outside.”

 

“Uhm, a party isn’t a box?” Hyoyeon innocently stated

 

 “Seriously, I’ll pretend you didn’t say that.” Taeyeon showed her disappointed face and shook her head

 

“Terrible, horrible, ugh! And oh… my nerdy sister will study on the same university as I mine! Great luck and Great life!”

 

“Hush woman, I didn’t want to be on the same university as you and your low in IQ friends. I’m already a genius.” Taeyeon replied

 

“My friends are smart!”

 

“And is there anyone smarter than me?” she asked innocently

 

“I-I…”

 

“Then none of them are smart.”

 

“Well my friends are cooler than you, you weirdo!”

 

“They’re not cool, they’re bimbos.”

 

“THAT’S IT!”

 

And the two were engaged in a chaotic cat fight until someone bust their door open, that resulted for the two to freeze on their close standing position.

 

“What is happening here? It’s so noisy down stairs!” their mother said

 

“We’re killing each other…” Taeyeon was speaking until her little sister put her hands on her blabbering older sister’s mouth and speak “We’re hugging each other out of love mother…” Hyoyeon said as she gave a very tight bone crushing hug to Taeyeon.

 

“I’m glad the two of you sort things out… Taeyeon, please look at your sister in school. You know how troublesome she could get.” Their mother said

 

“Mrs. Kim, I happen to dislike all children intensely. But I can assure you that I can readily attend to their necessary though unpleasant wants. “

 

“I’m not a child!” Hyoyeon said

 

“Kin Hyoyeon!” her mother said sternly

 

“We’re okay, Mrs. Kim. Don’t worry.”

 

 “Very well then, sleep now my children.” Their mother closed the lights as the two went on their respective beds glaring at each other.

 

“I can’t believe Mrs. Kim buy that lame excuse of yours.”

 

“You’re gonna get us both killed! And why do you call mother Mrs. Kim? You’re really weird.”

 

“That’s not weird, it’s called politeness and formality and you’re a very bad liar, psychologist said that people who lies tends to face their left and you did it obviously.”

 

“Whatever, just remember, I don’t know you tomorrow at school.”

 

“Fine with me.”

 

===

 

Taeyeon took an entrance exam on her sister’s university and she passed the entrance exams with flying colors because she is a self-taught genius.

 

“Wow, 100/100! Are you kidding me?!” the professor who gave the exam incredulously told to the prodigy

 

“Mr. Cho, Your exam is so easy. Even 4th grader kids can pass that.” Taeyeon said plainly as she sat on the chair in front of Mr. Cho’s desk

 

“Why you! Only 30% of the examiners pass out of 100% annually!”

 

“It’s because only those 30% got brains.”

 

“You talk like you’re smarter than me!”

 

“I am really smarter than you.”

 

“Tell me Miss Kim, what are your achievements when you are in high school?”

 

“Best Math department president, secretary of the dean, best in thesis writing, best in essay, best in science laboratory experiment, Straight A’s on grade cards, rank 1 on university’s top students… those are only few, others are in my CV. Do you want me to send it to you?”

 

“What? You already have a CV? You’re only a freshman in college!”

 

“Well, NASA offered me to work for them but I turned it down. I figured out that the universe is too small to be my workplace.”

 

“Miss Kim, is there anything you haven't been? “

“Yes Mr. Cho, I’ve never been an idler or a parasite.” 

 

“But why does it says here to your paper that you were almost kicked out in your senior year?” Mr. Cho tried to test her again

 

“Oh, it’s because I made a mini nuclear weapon on the science laboratory. You should’ve seen the looks on my classmates and Professor Jang’s face! They’re terrified!” she chuckled as she clapped her hand excitedly

 

“I’ll keep my eye on you Miss Kim.” Mr. Cho said as he glared at Taeyeon

 

“You should be, you’ll be touring me around. It’s your job.”

 

===

 

Taeyeon is assigned to share a dorm room every weekdays with sophomore Kwon Yuri and bossy junior Choi Sooyoung. She stood in front of the roomed assigned to her and re-checked the number again. She knocked on the door three times.

 

“Greetings! My name is Kim Taeyeon, a fresh man. I will be your new roommate. May I come in?” she asked formally

 

A tall girl looked at her from head to toe and shook her head

 

“Actually, no.”

 

Then the girl closed the door right in front of Taeyeon’s face. After a few second, the door swung opened. The tall girl looked surprised along with another tanned girl who was currently busy watching basketball on TV while munching pizza.

 

“H-How did you opened it?” the tall girl asked

 

“I got a key…This is also my room for this year whether you like it or not.” Taeyeon swung her chain of key in front of the girl

 

“Wow, this girl is feisty!” the tanned girl commented

 

“So, newbie… Listen up. I am Choi Sooyoung, a junior and this is my pal Kwon Yuri a sophomore. We actually take turns of cleaning every week, but since you’re a newbie here and our turns already ended, you will clean for a month.” Sooyoung said as she tapped her foot on the ground lazily and winked at Yuri.

 

“I wasn’t informed of that rule prior of coming here… I’ll ask the landlady, professor Shim tomorrow morning about that.” Taeyeon said innocently

 

“No! I-I mean, you do not have to ask Miss Shim about this. I mean, she told us to tell you this before you came.” The tanned girl Yuri said nervously

 

“Okay.” Taeyeon said

 

After a few minutes, the two were looking at the girl with confusing gazed.

 

“What are you doing?” Sooyoung asked

 

“Based on my calculations, I am entitled of 35 percent space on this room. The left side is your side I assume and the middle will be Miss Kwon’s and the right will be mine.”

 

“What are the red tapes for?”

 

“You see, everyone is entitled of their own space, privacy and territory. Once you entered these red lines, that means you are in my jurisdiction and any violation made upon my jurisdiction will be used against you.” Taeyeon explained

 

“Oh.” The two said in sync “Uhm, give us a sec will you?” Yuri said

 

“Okay, the time is all yours.” Taeyeon said as she fixed her things and the two just looked at her as they exchanged soft whispers to each other.

 

“This one is crazy!” Yuri complained

 

“Yeah, she’s just nuts!”

 

“What are we gonna do now?”

 

“Beats me.”

 

“She’s a creeper.”

 

“Don’t worry too much. At least we do not have to clean for a month.” Sooyoung smirked and Yuri gave a light chuckle

 

“That’s more I like it!”

===

 

The first day of classes for Taeyeon couldn’t get any worst. She got late for her class due to Yuri and Sooyoung took so long in using the bathroom. She was running on the school corridor to catch up for her class, until she bumped on somebody.

 

“Hey, watch it you little one!” the girl’s book were scattered on the floor as a result

 

“I would like to apologize but I am already running late! So…bye!” Taeyeon looked back as she continued to run towards her classroom and she saw a redhead girl yelling.

 

“You’re gonna regret this day buddy!”the redhead girl yelled in frustration

 

Taeyeon stood in front of her classroom and saw the professor already giving a lecture

 

“Oh, look at this, this is going to be awful.”

 

She entered the room and all eyes were on her.

 

“Sorry I’m late…” she said

 

“Introduce yourself please.”

 

“I’ve been introducing myself since kindergarten.” Taeyeon frowned

 

“Introduce yourself or I’ll mark you absent.” The professor threatened

 

“I’m introducing myself… I didn’t run all the way from here to be unnoticed.” She cleared and speak “My name is Kim Taeyeon. I love Shakespeare, Plato, Machiavelli, Einstein, Thomas Edison, Wilber and his brother…”

 

“Okay, that’s enough.”

 

“But I’m not yet done.”

 

“Nobody cares whom you love kid. Sit your down on a chair and listen to my lecture.”

 

And the class roared into laughter.

 

‘She wanted to know about me and yet she never really listen when I told her about myself…I do not understand this kind of people.’- She thought to herself as she look for a place to sit in.

 

Taeyeon found a chair to sit but somebody put their leg on it.

 

“Ooops! Taken now.” A girl said

 

“I don’t see any person sitting on it.”

 

“Oh yeah? I need two chairs so it’s taken.”

 

“Why two chairs?”

 

“I’ll be sleeping for long hours here.”The girl said as she yawned and stretched her arms

 

“Oh.”

 

Then Taeyeon looked for another vacant chair and saw one but was prevent by somebody for doing so.

 

“Don’t sit there.” A girl with a glasses said

 

“Why not?”

 

“Someone is already in there…” the girl mysteriously said

 

 “I don’t see anyone in there.” Taeyeon said

 

“Because he’s a ghost.”The girl said with no emotion at all and it’s enough to scare Taeyeon away

 

“O-Oh… I-I’ll just find another seat then.” Taeyeon said nervously and bowed

 

Taeyeon saw a vacant seat and asked the isolated person beside her.

 

“Hi, can I sit here?”

 

“Booze…” the girl said as she smiled and her eyes formed into tiny crescent

 

“Yeah, looks like you had one.” Taeyeon commented as she sat beside the girl

 

“Oh, the nerd… Hi nerd, I’m knurd.” She said as she offered her hand to Taeyeon

 

“Knurd?”

 

“Just drunk backwards.”

 

“Oh…”

 

Taeyeon just wondered, what more can she see in this university and what more unfortunate events will come. She just sighed and listened to the professor and she sighed again when her professor made a mistake. She raised her hand and speak.

 

“Oh, you want to say something Miss Kim?”

 

“I beg your pardon, it isn’t Plato who quoted that, its Aristotle.” she said as politely as possible but her classmates roared into a series of laughter that embarrassed the professor big time.

 

“Get out! Detention now!”

 

===

 

And there, Taeyeon was put on detention for correcting her professor’s mistake.

 

“I didn’t know being right is offensive.” She sighed as she hold the scrubs in her hand and looked at the dirty school bathroom

 

“WELCOME ABOARD TO THE BREAKFAST CLUB NEWBIE!” Taeyeon was startled and looked at the source of the voice, it was her roommates.

 

“Breakfast club? You guys are here too?” she asked uninterestedly

 

“Uh…We skipped class and got caught so yeah, we’re here!” Sooyoung gave her a high five and Yuri walked towards her

 

“Nice to see you roomie!” Yuri give her a smooch on her cheeks

 

“Ugh! That’s disgusting.” Taeyeon grimed

 

“Breakfast club, you know the movie. Kick students put on detention and fall in love and…”

 

“You mean detention club for troubled students… and neither of us will fall in love so shut it down.”

 

Another person bust in the door with a mop on her hand.

 

“Oh, sorry. Didn’t know some people occupies this post already.” A red head girl said and noticed Taeyeon that changed her mood quickly

 

“YOU!”  She glared at the little one

 

“Who me?”

 

“ALL MY BOOKS FELL OFF BECAUSE OF YOU AND I WAS LATE FOR I HAVE TO PICK ‘EM ALL UP!”

 

“Uh-oh, Looks like redhead didn’t take her anger management class well!” Sooyoung commented

 

Then suddenly a drunk girl entered the bathroom.

 

“Oh chopstick, burned post, nerd and redhead… Wait, redhead? Oh, bye!” the drunk girl who was Taeyeon’s seat mate on her previous class fled away once she sensed trouble

 

“YAH, SUNKYU! COME BACK HERE AND GIVE ME MY SANDWICH!”Sooyoung yelled as she followed the drunk girl

 

“I DON’T HAVE ONE, I’M DRUNK!” they can hear the voices of the two people who went out

 

“YAH, CHOI! Wait for me…” Yuri tried to catch up to her friend until she bumped into someone who looks like she just woke up from her sleep as she rubbed her eyes and yawned while holding a broom and a scissor for gardening.

 

“Oh, Jessica? There’s no grass here.” Yuri said

 

“Oh, hi. I’m sleepy…” the girl said lazily and Yuri pushed her out of the door

 

“I know, let’s get out of here.”

 

 “YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID THIS MORNING!” Yuri and Jessica heard from the outside of the bathroom

 

“Such a pity…” Jessica commented

 

“I know.”

 

Poor Taeyeon was left alone with the redhead on the bathroom. And when she got out, she has this big red bump on her forehead.

 

She was sent to the nursery to get cured. The redhead threatened her not to tell any professors about this or else she’s through. Judging by the violence and anger issues of the girl, Taeyeon was terrified so she just kept quiet about it and told the nurse that she just slipped in the bathroom.

 

Now she understand why the redhead is being called a redhead. It’s because she’s dangerous and angry.

 

 And Taeyeon now knows the importance of apologizing to people…Especially to redheads.

 

===

 

Taeyeon decided to go to the library in hopes that she can find peace and people around there will be normal… but she was wrong.

A lot of people were talking to each other and it annoys her sense of earing and what annoys her sense of sight is that she find a girl there who was sleeping with her feet on the table and a book on her face which she recognized as her classmate in her previous class and the girl from detention, which she remembered Yuri pertains as Jessica. She just passed through the sleeping person and walked through shelf of books.

 

She heard a voice on the English literature section.

 

“Oh Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?”said the deer eyed girl who was holding a book as she sat on the floor

 

“Scram Juliet… this is 21st century. Romeo and Juliet died, end of story.” Taeyeon said as she stood on the distant in front of the girl

 

“That’s why I like it.” The girl said “Wait, what happened to your forehead?” she asked

 

“Oh. Some redhead happened.” Taeyeon said as she get a book from the shelf

 

“Ah, the redhead… I think I know her. Is she Tiffany Hwang, the violent girl from the class 3C?”

 

“I wasn’t sure which class she’s at. I do not care either.”

 

“Gone with the wind?” asked the girl as she eyed the book on Taeyeon’s hand

 

“Hmmm, yes”

 

“It’s a good book. I love how Rhett Butler did not give a damn for Scarlet O’Hara in the end.”

 

“What about this book?” Taeyeon get another book from the shelf and showed it to the girl

 

“That’s Anna Karenina. She had a perfect family but had an affair with another man. She was disgraced, ashamed and heart broken. She died in the end.” The girl said with much enthusiasm which is quite ironic for a sad book

 

“This book?” Taeyeon continued to test her knowledge in literature

 

“Lolita…A professor that fell in love with a 12 years old girl. It’s the most controversial book I read. I’m glad they didn’t happen.” The girl shook her head and sighed in relief

 

“Okay, this book?” Taeyeon showed her another book

 

“That’s Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter… The woman who wears “A” as a symbol of being an adulterer and had an affair with a reverend who’s really a coward to accept what he had done… I seriously hate that man.” The girl said

 

“You’re fond of tragic romantic novels?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“That’s a bit different, why?”

 

“Because tragic novels are much closer to reality…Romance is not cotton cadies and butterflies. It was never like that. None of things are ever like that.” said the girl as she lowered her head

 

“What’s your name?” Taeyeon asked

 

“Yoona…Im Yoona.”

 

“Do you want to have lunch with me?” Taeyeon asked since Yoona is the first person who seems to be closer to normal that she met in her university

 

“Sure, I’m hungry.”

 

===

 

On Taeyeon’s second day on her university, she came to school rather earlier that her class time to avoid being late. When she opened her classroom door, she saw nobody arrived yet. She settled on her seat and tried reading a book. She heard strange noises coming from the cabinet behind her chair.

 

***CREAK AND SCREECHING NOISE***

 

Taeyeon is a type of person that doesn’t believe in paranormal but being alone in a room in early morning with weird screeching sound is terrifying.

 

“Who’s there?!” she yelled but the sound and noises continued so she decided to stand up slowly on her chair and walked toward the cabinet.

 

Her heart is beating rapidly as she lay her hands on the huge cabinet open holder. She was about to open it when she heard another noise and felt vibration on her pocket.

 

“What on Earth…”

 

“P.A.R.T.Y… P.A.R.T.Y…its party time” her phone rang

 

“YAH! WHO’S CALLING?!” she asked impatiently

 

“You’re pretty sister Hyoyeon duh…” the caller said

 

“What do you want?” Taeyeon asked as sweat formed on her forehead as she stared at the cabinet in front of her

 

“Your life…” her sister said

 

“W-What…”

 

“I was just kidding! Gee, you sound so weird. Anyway, you left your lunch box stupid. Meet me at the school cafeteria at lunch time. I’ll give it to you.”

 

“O-Okay…”

 

When the phone call ended, Taeyeon heard noises and screeching again. Much louder this time. She opened the cabinet as she closed her eyes shut.

 

“Peekaboo!”

 

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!….”

 

It was her classmate from yesterday, the paranormal girl who forbid her from sitting on an empty chair because a ghost is already in there as she claimed.

 

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING INSIDE THE CABINET MISS…? GOSH, YOU SCARED ME!”

 

“The name is Seohyun and I’m playing with my friend.” The girl said as she smiled and her glasses turned darker like on those animés.

 

“What friend?”

 

“Look behind you…”

 

“I see nothing…”

 

“Because she’s a ghost.”

 

“O-Oh…A-Aren’t you afraid of ghost?”

 

“No.”

 

“Why?”

 

“Ghosts are much better that humans… Much understanding and much of an observer.”

 

“Oh…Is your friend still behind me?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“I think I have to go to the bathroom, excuse me.”

 

===

 

Taeyeon made her escape and went out of the room. She’s not really going to the bathroom, she just wanted to get out of the classroom for some reason. She was standing at a vending machine, picking a drink.

 

“Cold coffee… I need this.”

 

Her money was taken by the vending machine but no coffee fell down.

 

“Oh, what a luck!” she disheveled her hair in frustration.

 

She was about to leave when somebody speak

 

“You don’t give up just like that.”The redhead speaks

 

“What…”

 

“Watch this.” The red head kicked the machine several times and all the sodas fell off outside.

 

“Tada!” then the redhead get three sodas from the floor. She opened one to drink and put the two inside her bag.

 

“WE’RE SCREWED!!!” Taeyeon yelled nervously

 

“We won’t, if you won’t say a word about this.”

 

“But that’s bad! This is a school property…”

 

“I’m telling you… if I got caught. I’m pulling your leg with me.”The redhead winked at her and go on her own way “See you around nerd.”

 

And the two got busted from the deed they have done and was put on a detention again. It was true when the redhead said she’s pulling the nerd’s leg with her if they were caught because the nerd was seen on crutches for weeks.

 

===

After a few weeks, Taeyeon decided to come home. Her weeks had been pretty same as her first and second day in school. She wanted a break and go to her own lab aka her room.

 

“Hey Taeyeon, what are you doing?” her mom asked her as the nerd was busy creating some robotic stuffs on her table

 

“I’m trying to invent a robot who can wash my clothes, dry it, fold it and iron it at the same time.”

 

“Ah, an impossible dream, I see.”

 

“Mom!” Taeyeonwhined at her mom and her mom just chuckled

 

“So, how’s college? Got friends so far?”

 

“Hmm… All people in the university are weird individual so none so far.”

 

“Well, aren’t you one?” her mom laughed out