Something Like Fate Read Free

them.
    Anyway. After that confrontation with Bianca, I basically stopped doing stuff with the group, except for Erin. I’d still talk to everyone if they talked to me, but after a while they stopped.
    It’s interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way. That’s clearly what happened to Erin with Jason.
    “I think he likes me,” Erin gushes.
    “Cool.”
    “Everyone’s been pushing us to get together, so they must have a reason.”
    “Maybe he told someone he likes you and now they all know.”
    “You think so?”
    “Totally.”
    “Of course we got put together for multimedia. The Energy is bringing us together.”
    I definitely believe everything happens for a reason. I’m just not sure I believe Erin’s reason for why she got put with Jason.
    Erin’s all, “Jason stayed after yesterday to ask me about something he totally could have found out from anyone. But he asked me !”
    “Because he obviously likes you.”
    “Really?”
    “Of course. Why else would he ask you?”
    “I know!” Erin’s cheeks get pink. “He is so cute.”
    “Yeah.”
    “You think he’s cute?” Erin thinks I can get any boy I want. She’s seriously delusional. The boys who approach me are usually obnoxious types who dedicate their lives to picking on anyone even remotely different from them. Like that’s attractive.
    Erin knows that we could never be interested in the same boy. Not that I’d ever go after him if I were. But it would be impossible for me to like a boy she likes. We have totally different types.
    I go, “He’s cute for you, I mean.”
    “Really?”
    “Totally.”
    “All signs point to us being together. I had a dream where I was eating this huge ice-cream cone. You know what ice cream represents?”
    We always interpret our dreams. Erin believes that symbolism in dreams foretells the future. I’m more into the kind of dream analysis where you interpret how the symbolism relates to your current situation.
    We’re both obsessed with fate. Anything that helps us make sense of this life is fascinating. At the beginning of the year we made a chart. The chart has topics related to fate that we want to know more about. Each topic has its own month. During that month, we learn as much as we can and have these intense discussions about everything we find out. By the end of this year, we’ll be experts on fate.
    Here’s our chart:
    Erin & Lani’s Fate Study Chart—Junior Year
    Even though we were just learning about dream analysis, I can’t remember what ice cream represents. Or if I even learned that one. It’s impossible to memorize the meanings of more than a few symbols. We decided that the key to dream analysis is checking a reliable website or book after every dream.
    “I don’t remember that one,” I go.
    “It symbolizes compensating for lack of contentment and foretells that the best is yet to come. Oh! The ice cream was this rusty orange color? And the next day Jason was wearing a shirt that exact same color!”
    “Get out.”
    “Well, it was almost the same color.” Erin tells me more about Jason and how she thinks he likes her but how she doesn’t know for sure so she’s going to wait and see if he asks her out.
    “Do you think that’s a good idea?” she wants to know.
    “Yeah. Or you could always initiate things.”
    “But isn’t it better to wait for him to ask me out?”
    “It is, but don’t wait too long. What if he asks someone else out because he doesn’t know you like him?”
    “If he likes me, he shouldn’t be asking anyone else out!”
    “I know. I’m just saying if he doesn’t do anything soon, you might want to.”
    If we weren’t so close, I might be jealous that Erin has a boy to like and I don’t. But I just feel happy for her. Erin and I are bonded for life. Being bonded for life isn’t the same as being best friends. I mean, we’re best friends, but it goes way beyond that. What do you