That's What I Am Page #2

- Why? A little low on cooties?

Or you just wanna see

if he really did wet his pants?

We're partners on a project

for Mr. Simon's fourth period English.

We've gotta work together.

- Bet your friends got a big kick out of that.

- Shut up.

You don't even know how lucky you are,

Nichol.

Stanley's the smartest in the school,

next to me.

Do you know where he is or not?

He's down in the corner

waiting for his crotch to dry.

Hey, Nichol.

Stanley's my best friend.

He's not like anyone else.

Don't...

Never mind.

Geek Corner. No Man's Land.

The Grand Canyon of Cooties.

It was referred to by many names.

One step into this dreaded ground

and there would be no going back.

Big G.

- What is that?

- What?

My God, they're talking.

- When do you wanna work on the report?

- What is he doing?

I don't have much time.

I go home right after school.

- I have stuff I have to do.

- We've gotta get it done somehow.

I know you don't wanna work

on the report with me.

I can do the work and you can turn it in.

- Your friends don't have to know.

- My God.

I have a strong feeling

Mr. Simon would know.

We have to do it together.

My father was a good man.

He just wasn't very user- friendly.

He worked in computers and everything

had to be done a certain way.

He was very good at computers.

But then again,

computers came with a handbook.

Yo, hey. Andy, shut it off. Shut it off.

Shut it off.

Come here. A little quicker please?

I don't have all day.

Come here. Come here.

Look at this. Look at this.

You telling me you can't see this?

- I was gonna go back over it.

- You know what you are?

Know what you are? You're a jughead.

You know what a jughead is?

- Someone who's really stupid?

- No, buddy. You're not stupid.

A jughead is someone

who just doesn't pay attention.

- Oh, okay.

- Now you can concentrate.

Do it right the first time, you don't have to

again. Does that make sense to you?

- Yeah, but I was gonna...

- No. There's no but.

Either makes sense

or doesn't make sense.

- There's no buts about it.

- Okay.

You watch me. I'll mow the lawn.

I'll show you

what a lawn's supposed to look like.

Unbelievable.

He won't study after school, in the library,

he works for his dad on the weekends.

The only place he'll study

is in Geek Corner at lunch hour.

Geek Corner?

Yeah, that's where they hang out.

Who are they exactly?

You know, Big G and his friends.

Norman Grunmeyer, Karen Connor,

Stuart Hoffstetter.

Geek Corner?

Yeah, that's what they call it.

"They" again, Andy?

Isn't that what you just called it?

Yeah, but I didn't mean... I didn't...

Did it occur to you that Stanley

studies there...

...because that's the only place

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