Diary of a Nerd King #2: The Complete 2nd Season - Episodes 1 to 8 (2 page)

Anyways, they sparred for a while after exercising and drills, and it was pretty cool to watch even though nobody got kicked between the legs while I was there.

After the sparring, they did some lessons where the teacher (Boogie says he's called a sensei) showed them some new moves, and then everybody tried to copy him. 

When the sensei did the moves, it looked pretty cool, like Jackie Chan in the movies or something, but it was actually kinda funny watching everybody trying to copy him. 

One guy actually fell right on his butt which was hilarious, and even though nobody laughed, I could see a lot of people's eyes and mouths twitching like they were trying hard not to. 

I know I was having a hard time trying not to, but seeing that black belt on the sensei up there at the front was enough motivation to make me keep a straight face. 

The guy was ok anyways and got up pretty fast.  The class practiced the new moves for a while longer, and then they were done for the night. 

I gotta say I have a whole new respect for Boogie now.  I'm not sure if he'd be able to beat up Craig Johnson in a fight yet, but just the fact that he knows karate might make Craig think twice about picking on him. 

That's good for me too.  Once word gets around that my best friend knows karate, I doubt I'm going to have too much trouble from anyone, not that I do now... but hey, you never know, right!

Footnote 1
:  Boogie says there are different types of karate, and some of them have different order for the color of the belts.  The kind of karate Boogie takes is called
Shotokan
, and the order of the belts for
Shotokan karate
is red, orange, yellow, green, purple, purple and white, brown, brown and white and black.

Tuesday

I walked to school with Jordan this morning.  She's pretty excited because it looks like GLEE club is going to be a go at school. 

Ms. Winsome is on board with the whole thing, and apparently thinks Jordan is a genius for coming up with the idea. 

I'm actually surprised that my cool status at school hasn't taken the hit I thought it was going to once word started to spread that I was helping Jordan start a GLEE club at school. 

Believe it or not, it's kinda the opposite.  I seem to be more popular now.  Kids that usually don't even talk to me are nodding to me in the hallway, saying hi in the lunch room, and just generally being nicer to me. 

Even Boogie says he's noticed it, so whatever is happening is rubbing off on him too cause he's my best friend.  Who would've thunk?

And guess what... it's even more noticeable with the girls.  I mean, they're talking to me more, smiling at me more in the hallways, and I even heard some rumors going around that my name has come up in conversation several times now among the popular girls. 

And in a good way... not like when they were all talking about me and laughing behind my back because I farted in math class and Lizzie Upton pretended to throw up from the fumes.  Maybe everyone will actually forget about that now, and I won't have to hear anymore comments about brown  streaks in my underwear or that there's a sale on gas masks at Walmart.

Of course, this could also be a BIG problem for me too.  If I get too popular with the girls, it might cause problems between me and Jordan.  Girls seem to get jealous pretty easily from what I've seen, and I’m pretty sure I don't have a clue how to deal with that. 

Hopefully Jordan will just be happy that GLEE club is going to happen, and that Ms. Winsome thinks she's a genius.  I mean, that pretty awesome right? 

I mean, even though Jordan and I are boyfriend and girlfriend, I still don't understand girls much more   than my Dad does, which isn't a whole lot considering he says he doesn't understand them at all. 

Anyways, maybe this whole GLEE club thing is a good thing after all.  Jordan seems happy.  I'm liking the way things are going at school, and even Boogie's cool with GLEE club now.

But then it just hit me... something I hadn't even thought about before. 

Something that scares the crap out of me!

Something absolutely unthinkable...

If I'm in GLEE club, I'm going to have to sing! 

Me, sing?  Uhhh, no way!  You don't understand.  I like to sing in the shower as much as the next guy, but sing in front of a bunch of other kids?  No way!  Uh Uh. 

And not just a bunch of other kids... in front of girls!!!  There'll be girls in that bunch of other kids! 

And Jordan!  I just realized, I'll have to sing in front of Jordan!  Not just in front of her, I'll probably have to sing with her! 

Ok, calm down.  Get a hold of yourself.  It going to be ok.  I'll figure a way to fix this.  Look at me.  I'm talking to myself in my diary. 

I'm losing it!  What am I gonna do?

Wednesday

Walking to school this morning, I tell Boogie my realization about the whole singing thing.  If I was hoping Boogie was going to have something reassuring to say, I was dead wrong.

As soon as I told Boogie, he started freaking out.  I guess he hadn't thought about the whole singing in front of everybody else thing either. 

Boy, I would've thought with all his new karate skills and self-confidence, Boogie would've been the calm one in this situation, but I actually think he was getting more worked up than I was. 

It probably didn't help that I pointed that out either.  He got all defensive and told me that karate had nothing to do with singing in some stupid GLEE club. 

I told him that if it made him feel any better, I was sure Ms. Winsome wouldn't care if he wore his karate gi to GLEE club practices.  That just set him off even more.  He said he was definitely NOT wearing his karate gi to GLEE club. 

I told him to calm down, that I was just trying to help.  He said I wasn't helping, and then we got into an argument over who wasn't helping the situation more, and who was more of a sissy for being afraid of singing in GLEE club. 

We ended up not talking to each other for the rest of the way to school.  Boogie didn't even say bye when we split up to head off to our seperate classes. 

Boy, this GLEE club is starting to be a lot of trouble.  I sure hope it's worth it.