" We had algebra together, right?”

“Yeah.” That was two years ago. I only vaguely remember him. Something about circles. “Didn’t you draw perfect circles?”

“That’s what I’m known for.”

“Really?” Erin goes, all excited about the circles.

Jason says, “No, it’s just this one time I went up to the board and I had to draw a circle and it came out really . . . round.”

“Which is always a good thing, when you’re drawing a circle,” I say.

“Exactly.” Jason smiles at me.

“It was more than one time,” I remind him. For some reason, it’s all coming back to me now. “It was more like three or four times.”

“What can I say?” Jason goes. “You got me.”

Now we’re both smiling. "

― Susane Colasanti , Something Like Fate