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Gordon was halfway through a game with his online friends when Charlene from school walked into the internet cafe. He'd never seen her there before in all his years of hanging out there after school. Not once.

She wouldn't be seen dead in such a nerdy setting... so why?

When she spotted him and began to walk over, he realised what was happening. She'd come there specifically to find him.

The other guys in the shop were equally shocked to see an attractive girl in their midst, even more so when she sauntered over to the biggest nerd present.

"Gordon, can I talk to you?" she asked.

In the past ten years the only things she had said to him were cruel taunts, bullying words or warnings to stop looking in her general direction. For that reason, as well as his fear of Kai, he ignored her completely.

"Oh, come on." She tutted. "Kai isn't here and he will never find out you spoke to me."

Charlene pulled out the chair next to him and plotted into it, giving him that grumpy, evil stare of hers.