Chapter 1 The nerd project

Prologue

What happens when you take five nerds and five popular kids and have them switch roles for a month? You get lots of drama, sadness, pain, love, laughs, and a whole lot of soul searching. One thing is for sure none of these ten kids will ever look at the other the same way again.

Will they become friends after all of this, or just go back to the way things were? One teacher came up with the nerd project to overcome bullying and for others to see how it felt to be like the other. She thought that if they walked in each other's shoes then maybe they could really understand each other and see not everything is how they expected.

To many times we judge others based on what we see. Mrs. Ross is hoping with this project they will take the time to get to know one another and see they had it all wrong. Will the lesson be learned? Can they let everything else go, and trust the person they are paired with?

Will they even stick around to complete it? Will this put an end to bullying in their small school? Can one person truly make a difference? Or will the nerd project be an epic fail?

She believed in these kids, but do they believe enough in themselves? All it takes is one success story for this project to make it. For Mrs. Ross anything less than changing all their lives would mean she failed. She only hopes she can gain their trust enough to show them she is doing this for them.

One thing we do know is you can't ever know a person unless you walk a mile in their shoes.