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She drew a box on the chalkboard underneath the triangles with an anatole mistake, like it was second nature

“I can’t let you go, not without telling you how I feel, but I had to think outside the quadrilateral parallelograure out how Bodie, you’re like a math book; you solve all my problems And like decimals, I have a point”

She turned and moved toward me with her eyes so full of questions and answers and secrets and love that it broke my heart and healed it My hands fell to my sides, my breath shallohen she stopped just in front of me

“I’m sorry I’m sorry I was afraid, and I’ that has ever happened to ift I want to be your everything if you’ll take me back Because there’s no equation in ether and end in infinity I’rees of me”

I took a breath and stepped into her, bringing her into s filled with air, filled with her

“You are one well-defined function, Penny,” I joked quietly, holding her againstfor words “This was all I needed — to kno you felt If we’re going to work, you’ve got to tell ot to trust me”

“I do,” she said softly “Does this mean …”

I gazed down at her, drunk on her, s “You know,” I said as I brushed her hair fro is the tryangle”

“Do they say that?” She s as she leaned into me, her breaths short

“They do,” I answered, thu her eyes “I don’t want to lose you either, Pen So I’ll take your three-sixty and give you ainst her lips

And with the s out relief and breathing each other into its place

Her lips were so sweet, the feel of her inabout since I’d held her last And all my fears fell away All except one