/lit/ - Literature

>6th grade ish
>liked reading, but only really did it during school when there was free time
>people consider me a book nerd because anytime anyone sees me in school I have a book on me/am reading it
>make friends with another nerd
>start revealing each other's power levels
>he sees the book I'm carrying, one of those overstretched genre fiction fantasy series with like 10 parts
>he says he likes it
>ask him how far he is
>what do you mean
>well what book are you on
>oh I've already read them all!
>he starts revealing his power level more
>he reads for hours a day after school
>he reads from all kinds of different genres, while I stuck almost exclusively to genre fiction
>despite how much he reads he still retains more info than I had when we had both read a book
>my internal face from that day onward
There was nothing weird about it on the surface, just a normal encounter, but internally I was absolutely SEETHING with shame