“Sounds to me like it’s two standard deviations on a normal
distribution curve” conversation pieces don’t come too much better than that.
She was confident that he would be riveted by her. Well, as confident as she
could be. Jude had never been very full of confidence really. But tonight she
felt better than she had ever before. Her molars stopped their constant
grinding for an hour or so. But now, with Steven looking at her through his
thick black-rimmed glasses, she could feel her jaw tightening again. Maybe she
had miss-read him, maybe he wasn’t going to find her funny at all. Steven’s
face slowly clunked and computed and worked its way into a smile as he parsed
this unusual social situation. This girl seemed to like him, she certainly wasn’t
trying to escape back to the company of her friends. The two of them had been
speaking for nearly half an hour now, and what’s more, he was fairly certain
she’d just made one of the funniest jokes he’d ever heard. Yes, this was going
well. Why not follow his instincts for a change. “Ha” he laughed a genuine but
tightly throttled laugh, “you like maths, I like maths, maybe we should go out
some time?”
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