"I am a nerd," I countered.

"You certainly took my advice to heart for someone who hated it so much," he mused, still looking at my phone. "You put yourself out there and now you've fully integrated yourself into Taylor's group."

"It's kind of a non-option when you're dating one of them," I replied.

He shook his head, partly at me, partly at his character's untimely demise. "The things you think of as non-optional are things their boyfriends never even consider," Kevin coolly replied. "It's why they like you and actually text you and shit."

"Come on, dude, that's giving me too much credit, I got lucky," I said uneasily....