Bryce is a shy guy. At least in the beginning. He doesn't have much time for a social life, due to working and going to college. He has to pay for his own schooling, so does the moving thing, and odd jobs as often as he can for the money. So even though he is good looking, and girls probably would fall all over him, he has never been active, and is shy about it.
(This character is actually very much like a friend in high school, my tennis partner. He was 6'2" and as good looking as a guy can be. But he was shy around women. He worked as a DJ, at a bar. He was under age to do so, but he looked like he was mid 20's, so got away with it. Girls all night, from age 21 to age 45 would hit on him, some even left room keys for him, yet he never did anything. My mom would have left my dad for the guy, hahaha. I would go hang out with him when he worked, and got laid more just from being around him than you could imagine. Keep in mind, this was also in the early 80's)