Geek Charming Page #2

- Who are you calling?

- 911.

It's that geek from lunch today.

He's saving your purse.

What?

Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Really?

Oh.

Ugh!

Ew!

What?

- Go, Woodlands.

Vote Paterson.

Imported leather

needs specialty cleaning.

When my cell phone got wet, I...

My Serge Sanchez.

You named your purse?

Not so fast.

I have a proposal for you.

Whatever it is, the answer is NO,

spells no way.

Can I at least propose

the proposal first?

I want you to star in my movie

for the film festival.

Oh, what? Star?

Uh, what's it...? What's it about?

You. Your life.

You know, what it's like to be popular

and run for Blossom Queen?

Nicole Paterson might have buttons

and posters,

but what's that compared to a movie?

Especially if it's about me.

Deal.

Once you lose this.

Deal.

The competition just got serious.

It's always been serious for me.

Thad?

Tomorrow. Lunch. The dining hall.

We can start filming my movie then.

Actually, it's my movie.

Where are my shoes?

You need some major CPR, Serge.

Marta.

I need help carrying.

Marta?

"Dylan, went to dentist,

dinner's in the fridge.

Love, Marta."

You'll be as good as new, Serge.

"Amy posted a picture of Dylan."

What?

Why'd she do that?

My mom took that photo when Amy and I

won the second grade science fair,

back when we were besties.

Mom died later that same year.

Sometimes I like

to look through her old stuff.

Makes me feel like I'm still with her.

Josh, is that you?

No, Mom, it's a burglar who just happens

to have keys to the front door.

Hey, Mouse.

Who'd you bark at today, buddy?

Who'd you bark at today?

Who'd you bark at today?

Oh, yes, you're a good boy.

Let's go. Come on. Come on.

Come on. Look at me. Come on.

Come on.

Same to you, I think.

Hey, guess what?

I found my new documentary subject.

Dylan Schoenfield.

- Oh, that is wonderful, hon.

- Yeah.

- Who is he?

- She, Mom.

- Oh.

- One of the most popular girls at school.

I was gonna follow her around,

shoot her Blossom Queen campaign.

I'm thinking a hard-hitting expos

on popularity.

Huh. Well, that sounds like

an ambitious project.

Yeah. Speaking of projects, Mom,

what is that?

Sushi-making class.

I am making a spicy dragon roll.

Great.

There we go. That's that.

Oh, no, my miso.

Hey, Mom, you just wanna phone in

for pizza instead?

Oh, yes.

So much better.

No. No, no, no. Give me...

Go and get him.

Hey. Paul, it's Sandy.

Oh, I like this, huh?

An expos on popularity.

Yeah. You told me to challenge myself

and Dylan Schoenfield's proving

to be a big challenge.

Don't forget what else I said.

- Seek out the truth, huh?

- Right.

The best documentarians leave

their preconceived notions at the door.

Uh...

Totally, Mr. F., yeah.

Dylan Schoenfield, huh?

Popularity could turn out

to be more complicated than you think.

Welcome to the competition, Josh.

Hollywood, huh?

- Yeah.

- Little bit of the action.

I'll see you there.

Hey. You ready to start?

- Almost. Hold this.

- Mm.

First, some ground rules.

One, we need

to set a strict filming schedule.

No hanging around me before or after.

Sure. Like I'd want to.

Two, I need a beauty budget.

So $50 a week should suffice.

Beauty budget?

I only get $5 a day for lunch.

Three, no filming from my left side.

Ever.

It's my bad side, see?

They're exactly the sa...

Are you always this high-maintenance?

It is not high-maintenance

to want to look nice.

Voila, now I'm done.

Hey, don't you want this?

Oh, you can just set it down at my seat.

- The Ramp?

- Duh, where else would we eat lunch?

Dylan?

We're shooting a movie.

Excuse me.

One small step for geeks.

One giant leap for geek-kind.

Not now.

Why so determined

to be Blossom Queen?

Because it's the best way

to ensure lifelong popularity.

Aren't you already popular?

Let me ask you this,

does Sunshine Lemonade advertise?

Yeah, they have the commercials

with the waterskiing penguins.

Oh, I like the penguins.

Sunshine is already number one.

They don't need to advertise.

But they do it to stay number one.

Get it?

- Got it.

- Good.

Everyone thinks

it's so easy being the popular girl.

- It's so not easy.

- Girls, this is moi's movie.

- If they wanna add something, that's fin...

- But being popular is so not easy.

It's like royalty.

Or being the first lady.

You have to live up

to impossible standards of beauty

and you're expected

to be a good influence.

Like I help out the less fortunate.

Oh, you have a charity.

Absolument, fashion victims.

Hannah, the yellow scarf you're wearing

is washing you out.

Here.

Wear mine instead.

See?

I just sacrificed my own outfit for hers.

But it was worth it.

Oh!

Josh.

Sorry.

Oh!

Hey.

If you're a ten, you can only date a ten,

like Asher.

- Coming to watch me play volleyball?

- Mm-hm.

Dylan, he's blocking your light.

Why is there a talking nerd here?

Asher, we downloaded this.

Josh is making a movie

about me winning Blossom Queen.

Play nice?

Does it mess with my volleyball sched?

Oh, never. We'll work around it.

Got it. Thank you.

So this is what you do after school?

Shopping improves the economy.

Oh, how thoughtful.

I know, right? I care.

Right. So in a scientific sense,

how does popularity work?

Are the other Blossom Queen

candidates...?

There are levels of popularity.

Anywhere from

student-council-president popular

to only popular with your parents.

Sure, Nicole's cheerleader popular,

but is she Blossom Queen popular?

Doubtful.

So how does one move up

this social scale of popularity?

Well, one way

is hoping it'll rub off on you.

Popularity's contagious.

What? Like a cold?

Duh.

It's why Hannah and Lola battle

to be my better friend.

Their popularity comes from mine.

- Six-point-five percent sales tax on 395...

- Um...

Twenty-five sixty-seven.

Hate it, have it, have it, have it, have it,

hate it, I'll try some on just for fun.

How many shoes do you need?

One pair for each day of the year.

Why, how many do you own?

You're looking at them.

Clearly. Totes tragique.

So how long's this gonna take?

No filming in here.

Hey, here's your chance

to tell me something about Dylan.

Oh. Like what?

Like does your popularity really come

from hers?

We may not be as popular as Dylan,

but we do know some stuff.

Like, when Dylan doesn't get her way,

she goes full-on DQM.

Drama queen mode.

And Asher only dates Dylan

because she worships him.

And Asher loves being worshipped.

Ta-da!

So, what do we think?

Guys, French is my trademark, duh?

So Populars only hang with Populars?

Cats don't hang with dogs, right?

Really?

That's your argument?

It's better this way.

If everyone stays with their own group,

there's no chance for misunderstandings.

Like, what kind of misunderstandings?

Take you and me, for instance.

If we mingled outside

of doing my movie together,

you might get the wrong idea

and ask me out.

Imagine the horror.

- You'd be so embarrassed.

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