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Tanner Mack was a typical nerd. Smart with the learning, dumb as bricks with people. Okay maybe he wasn't that bad. But his interests fell into line of video games, books, comics, and Dungeons & Dragons. None of these things made him a very cool person. But fuck it, what was cool away? So what if the cool guys got to hang out with all the school's hottest girls? So what if they drove kick ass cars, and got blowjobs under the bleachers.
Tanner thought he was a pretty cool guy. He had a level eight Rogue in his D&D game, and that meant he was strong enough to backstab and kill an Ogre. So if that wasn't cool, then he had no idea what cool was. Of course being a fairly smart guy, Tanner knew exactly what cool was. He also knew he was the shining example of how not to be cool. He would never have the hot girlfriend, the fancy car, or the buck loads of friends all voting him prom king. Instead Tanner had his little circle of fellow Wizards and Warlocks, and that was all he needed.
His biggest problem was that he just wasn't very outgoing beyond his social circle. Chronic shyness you could call it. His council in High School had warned him that it would be hard getting into a good college if he didn't show some sort of social capabilities. He was perfectly capable of being social, he just didn't want to. Yet he did want to get into a good College like BDSU or something like that, so he looked for options. None of the local social clubs were even remotely interesting to him, so his councilor suggested he simply tutor.
Tanner had the grades and he understood the teacher's lessons more than most people in class did, for whatever reason, so Tutoring seemed like a fine option. Turns out, Tanner really got along with tutoring. Not only was he good at dumbing down explanations for people, but it also allowed him to be more social with people. He found that he was shy about new people only went there were a lot of other people around, yet in a tutoring session it was mostly just one-on-one and he could speak to a new person with relative ease.
He took to tutoring so well, that Tanner not only got into BDSU, he kept tutoring there as well. He got to charge money for his lessons too, which was nice and helped by him extra video games, or a new dungeon book when those came out. College wasn't without it's challenges though, he had to meet up and incorporate himself into a new D&D group and meeting people was a bit different than it was in high school. A little easier maybe, but also harder in other ways. High school kids only cared about being cool, but college adults cared more about having similar interests and goals when they chose friendships.
Yet he managed to find himself a small niche of friends, and was happy with that. On top of his studies and tutoring folks, he didn't have a whole lot of time for other things. Having a girlfriend never once crossed his mind, at least, not until he met....her.
IT started as normal as any other day, the councilor's office arranged another tutoring session for him that evening after classes. He was to meet up at the Library and help a girl named Becca. He agreed and the session was scheduled. With a sigh he tossed his bag back onto the desk to pull out the Dungeons & Dragons books from the bag. He had a meeting tonight, but he would have to bail on the game. It was a small sacrifice though, Tanner didn't mind being a tutor and frankly tonight's D&D game would be boring. The group was in the Swamp of Dremor and they needed to search through a fog maze. It would be an awful slog. Tutoring would actually save him from that nonsense. He wanted to fight a fucking dragon anyway.
Tanner Mack was a typical nerd. Smart with the learning, dumb as bricks with people. Okay maybe he wasn't that bad. But his interests fell into line of video games, books, comics, and Dungeons & Dragons. None of these things made him a very cool person. But fuck it, what was cool away? So what if the cool guys got to hang out with all the school's hottest girls? So what if they drove kick ass cars, and got blowjobs under the bleachers.
Tanner thought he was a pretty cool guy. He had a level eight Rogue in his D&D game, and that meant he was strong enough to backstab and kill an Ogre. So if that wasn't cool, then he had no idea what cool was. Of course being a fairly smart guy, Tanner knew exactly what cool was. He also knew he was the shining example of how not to be cool. He would never have the hot girlfriend, the fancy car, or the buck loads of friends all voting him prom king. Instead Tanner had his little circle of fellow Wizards and Warlocks, and that was all he needed.
His biggest problem was that he just wasn't very outgoing beyond his social circle. Chronic shyness you could call it. His council in High School had warned him that it would be hard getting into a good college if he didn't show some sort of social capabilities. He was perfectly capable of being social, he just didn't want to. Yet he did want to get into a good College like BDSU or something like that, so he looked for options. None of the local social clubs were even remotely interesting to him, so his councilor suggested he simply tutor.
Tanner had the grades and he understood the teacher's lessons more than most people in class did, for whatever reason, so Tutoring seemed like a fine option. Turns out, Tanner really got along with tutoring. Not only was he good at dumbing down explanations for people, but it also allowed him to be more social with people. He found that he was shy about new people only went there were a lot of other people around, yet in a tutoring session it was mostly just one-on-one and he could speak to a new person with relative ease.
He took to tutoring so well, that Tanner not only got into BDSU, he kept tutoring there as well. He got to charge money for his lessons too, which was nice and helped by him extra video games, or a new dungeon book when those came out. College wasn't without it's challenges though, he had to meet up and incorporate himself into a new D&D group and meeting people was a bit different than it was in high school. A little easier maybe, but also harder in other ways. High school kids only cared about being cool, but college adults cared more about having similar interests and goals when they chose friendships.
Yet he managed to find himself a small niche of friends, and was happy with that. On top of his studies and tutoring folks, he didn't have a whole lot of time for other things. Having a girlfriend never once crossed his mind, at least, not until he met....her.
IT started as normal as any other day, the councilor's office arranged another tutoring session for him that evening after classes. He was to meet up at the Library and help a girl named Becca. He agreed and the session was scheduled. With a sigh he tossed his bag back onto the desk to pull out the Dungeons & Dragons books from the bag. He had a meeting tonight, but he would have to bail on the game. It was a small sacrifice though, Tanner didn't mind being a tutor and frankly tonight's D&D game would be boring. The group was in the Swamp of Dremor and they needed to search through a fog maze. It would be an awful slog. Tutoring would actually save him from that nonsense. He wanted to fight a fucking dragon anyway.
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