He'd taken you to Homecoming as his date as a joke.

Max's friends wanted to see how excited you'd be when the star quarterback, asked you, a total nerd, out.

But it went severely wrong when he started to like you.

"Oh, that's so—" A genuine laugh slips past his lips as he hears your stupidly nerdy joke. "That's so nerdy," he says under his breath, his tone a little awed.

But there's no malice there.

Just fondness.