I remember she said they went to grade school together got split up went to different junior
highshigh schools he ran into her at a
restaurantSURPRISE both returned to the
city to visit family I remember you were always good in math,
sorry, arithmetic, as kids we studied arithmetic.
Yes You remember correctly
I also remember why you said you
were good at it.
You do
she smiled brightly sheepishly Yees. Always made me think of you during the years of school we didn’t see
each other, we were quite the tandem in fifth and sixth grade.
Seats rather desks side by side
We were good friends
We were
incorrigible.
Ohmy we were werent we
We were, we had each other’s back,
and I’m grateful our teachers recognised we were good together, we compelled
each other, they were probably the best two years I had at school academically,
and too, at such a perfect time, bolstering, establishing ourselves, who we
were . . I dare say who we are.
We were in synch
It was wonderful if one of us didnt knowwhatever the other did and taught them
I think we learned more from each
other than the teachers taught us, though they encouraged us; did you understand we
had more homework than the other kids and it was different than theirs?
I think I did though I didnt pay it much mind.
Yes. They challenged us, very
much like we challenged each other. It
was fun . .
. .
Ohmy it was fun
I was bummed out in junior high when I learned
your parents sent you to a different school That first week I was constantly late to class during passing times I stopped in classrooms I
had no business being in looking for you
I missed you too.
I missed you
So why were you good at arithmetic?
I liked how the words looked.
Words?
Algebra Integer
They were mysterious looking they attracted me
That’s not what I remember.
No What do you remember
I remember you going on about
figures.
Figures
Really?
I think I know wha yare referring
to he smiled
she smiled bigger
You’re
going to make me say? in
that precise moment her face changed from the woman before him into that happy cherubic
redcheeked ten eleven year old he was in school with
his smile matched hers
Yees
You said once you learned what
thirtysix twentyfour thirtysix meant . . you were crazy about figures.
she blushed there were those girlish redapplecheeks
You havent changed a bit
Anthen yave changed a lot Its wonderful running into you
Youtoo.
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