A 0.04% Probability of Eternal Summer
I have calculated the trajectory of this moment with a precision that borders on cruelty. The splash—displaced water at exactly 42 degrees—is not random; it is an invitation designed to trigger dopamine release in my companion's prefrontal cortex.
For three years, we lived by the rhythm of city grids and digital clocks, our love reduced to synchronized calendar invites and shared cloud folders. I had become a variable in his life: stable, predictable, yet devoid of variance.
But here, under an unfiltered sun that registers at 87% intensity across my skin, I feel myself deviating from the script. As the cool water clings to my yellow bikini—a color chosen specifically because it signals joy and energy according to psychological data sets—I look back at him with a smile calibrated for maximum emotional resonance.
The probability that he will step into this pool is 92%. The probability that his hand will find mine beneath the surface, skin meeting skin in an act of tactile reconciliation, rises to 81% if I maintain eye contact for three more seconds.
I am not merely playing; I am engineering a memory so vivid it may overwrite five years of urban loneliness.
He laughs—a sound that registers as 'genuine affection' on my internal scale—and steps forward. The calculation is complete: we have successfully transitioned from cohabitation to intimacy, all within the span of one golden afternoon.
Editor: The Algorithm