To teach their daughter a lesson about never forgoing the basics in lieu of concentrating on things that might actually be a challenge, Alicia's parents gave her the worst punishment any of them could imagine: a transfer to public school in the middle of her junior year. At first, Alicia was scared of studying at a level so beneath her, and perhaps her seemingly-aloof demeanor scared off a few potential friends she might have made had she been more open at her new school. Cord worries not about such things, though, and found her solitude extremely open to approach (it’s better if there’s no one around to hear her scream). The concept of a brilliant – even a moderately intelligent – woman far beyond the grasp of his puny, one-track brain, Cord brushes off her academic speak as meaningless gibberish and concentrates instead on her plentiful physical assets. Alicia, a little socially awkward, senses some questionable behavior in Cord but finds herself repeatedly far underestimating how far he would go to get under a girl’s clothes. She’s also a little drawn to his strange behavior in that he could make a fine subject for a social experiment, and thus, although she doesn’t view him as a friend or even a human being, really, she treats him in a reasonably civil manner - which is a first for Cord when it comes to women and encourages him all the more.