Well, it seems your problem is one of self control and being in need of psychiatric evaluation for only desiring things you judge to be bad out of your potential mates.
Anyway, nerd and physically attractive are not mutually exclusive, in any event, we were fishing for information.
You don't want to like him and are certain that you'll be met with foiled plans if you did? Make a play for him then, and get it out of the way early rather than shirking from the thought of pining away due to enforced lack of contact until he's bleached from your mind. Either you'll be pleasantly surprised or you'll get it out of the way early enough on.
...Your actual school? Or the apes that go there?
If the former, do they have some kind of religiously motivated hatred of courtship rituals?
Sounds like you should have stepped up there, then, and kept her from being chased, or at least made sure you were the one as caught her.![]()