Started as shock to me

I was in university and was a cheerleader, we always had great fun and teased the nerd as we called him. But my partying and lack of studying caused my grades to drop, not as far as failing. But it got my parents worried, and I was told if I didn't improve, they would take action. I didn't improve and my mother decided it was time to act. As I was involved with cheerleading and the in crowd, I wasn't up with all my mother's friends. An old school friend of hers had moved to closer to her again and she had a son who was doing great at his study top of his class. You've guessed it the nerd, but he wasn't really a nerd. He wore glasses and looked skinny to us as we didn't take much notice of him, just teased him. Luckily for the boys in our group none, got into a fight with him as he would've creamed them. He was a state champion in martial arts, including boxing, Karate and judo. His slender frame fooled us all under the loose clothing he wore, and we thought him to be skinny and a weakling. Once I was told I was to be tutored and heard his name I didn't want to be seen with as it would lower my profile with my friends I thought. But my refusal was dismissed by my mother stating I'd be warned, and my father agreed with my mother. So, on the following Saturday morning my mother took me to her friend's house for my first session of tutoring. It was only a few doors down the street on the other side. So, we walked, and I tried to change my mother's mind and failed. On our arrival I met my mother's friend, and she said her son was training in his gym. He trained I thought that strange for such a skinny nerd to be doing. We went with her to a large shed which was his gym, not the small room I'd thought it must be. You could've knocked me over with a feather, on us entering. He was only wearing gym shorts, and I could seeing see he was well muscled. Also, the walls had trophies and plaques showing his long history of successes. He was told to finish as he had to tutor me and just nodded and went to shower. We returned into the house with his mother, I was still in shocked at what I'd just seen, he wasn't the nerd I had thought him to be. My mother also said he was well behaved and didn't talk back while looking straight at me. His mother said his martial arts training taught him to respect his parents and others. With his return I started being tutored. While my mother his talked about their old days together in another room. He showed no distain of me and focused on tutoring me after 2 hours we went home, and another tutoring session made for the next afternoon. I'd changed my view of him and back on campus freely talked with him, when my cheerleading friends ask why I was so friendly with the nerd I told them he was no nerd and of his achievements in martial arts and how fit he really looked. Most thought I was joking, but the university had a challenge from another for a martial arts competition. We didn't have team as such preferring football and basketball and so a scratch team was raised. My tutor was the first selected and in training before the competition my cheerleader teammates saw I was lying about his build. But I had the inside track as I was by then dating him and after graduation we married. In the year since, I've realized never judge a book by its cover, you might be missing something fantastic.