Xavier Blatter shook his head despondently as he walked through the park, away from the carnival on his way back home. The path meandered through a small wooded area and he occasionally kicked an innocent tree in a combination of anger and self-pity.
Xavier knew he wasn't a popular kid. His only friends were similarly nerdy young men with unhealthy obsessions with on-line gaming and a complete lack of experience with the opposite s*x. Xavier himself was a hulking overweight teenager with swarthy skin and dark greasy hair, no girl's idea of an attractive date.
But that was no reason for him to have just been humiliated in front of everyone. And especially by a bunch of mouth-breathing jock t***s who could hardly tie their own shoelaces.
He'd been at the carnival with two of his friends,
