John Egbert last year (freshman) was a small, quiet nerd who just so happened to have an older brother on the football team, and twin sister on the cheerleader squad. After summer, he came back looking like he morphed into someone else. Now tan, tall, and somewhat talkative, he's caught the eyes of many, boy or girl, and even those in between genders, and he's always ignored them, even cheerleaders. But now that he's more popular, he starts to look around. One boy that has caught his piercing blue eyes? The biggest nerd at Scratch Academy, Dave Strider. The blond haired-red-eyed boy always sat with two people, Rose and Karkat. But John and his twin sister go up to this table. And, well, what happened changed them all.