We were growing up, the school routine began.

Since the first year of our education Alex has chosen the path of a nerd. And I think this decision was the point of no return for him. He started spending eight to ten hours a day learning useless information that he would never use, just to get good marks in the journal. Meanwhile, I was living a full life connecting with girls, going to parties and making friends. Of course he could not just look at that and sit back. What do you think he did? He started complaining to me! Everyday I received several voice messages with his dissatisfaction with life, where he was blaming the «global injustice» for all of his problems, but when I told him that the only reason for his problems was himself, he just got offended and broke off contact with me for a few days.

As you understand, later, any time I was successful, he became more and more jealous and self-pitying.

Everything had gone this way for ten years, until we turned to the eleventh grade…

Chapter II — The moment, when the mask was put on

In the last year of school Alex decided to seem like anybody else, but not a nerd. This way he became a poseur and a clown. The ridiculous behavior associated with the same appearance made him look even worse than before, but he did not realise it. An infinite number of useless attempts to be involved into a circle of people completely unsuitable for him often led to the fact that he created more enemies, but less friends. More and more in his every word and action there was evidence of his displeasure of life and an accumulated over the ten years being a nerd pure hatred of the world. Unfortunately, Alex didn’t get that hiding behind the deceitful mask of a «cool» guy wouldn’t solve his problems, and there will always be found an offended nerd behind it.