What a Nerd
Judy hadn’t meant to go snooping through Nick’s room. She’d been flopped on the ground, waiting for his return from the store, and noticed the box under his bed. Her conscience held for a moment…
“Oh God, those old things.”
Judy looked up at the fox from where she sat on his bed, box on lap. He didn’t look bothered, only amused, so she started shifting through the books again. “John Catter of Mars? The Swords of Lankhmar? The Helliconia Trilogy? The Stars My Destination? Never took you for such a reader, Nick.”
Nick joined her on the bed, smiling nostalgically as he retrieved The Lathe of Heaven. “Eh, growing up, books were cheap, durable, you could bonk a mugger upside the head with them…”
Judy giggled, sidling closer and wrapping an arm around his. “Read me a little?”
Raising an eyebrow, Nick shrugged and flipped to the first page.