Even though Number 19 is beautiful, she eats lunch alone, never gets invited to any parties, and is teased by all the boys who fear her imperfections. She lives in a two dimensional world, in the classroom her pencil is number two, in the restroom she only goes number two, and she absolutely hates listening to Taylor Swift’s single 22. She understood she was different. Maybe it was her asymmetries, her awkward amplitude, or her abnormal asymptote, but that did not give people the right to be mean to her, because she was far from average. She went to a Taylor Swift concert and evened out her hair, but no matter how hard she tried to conform she was still ridiculed, still odd. Hiding in the library from Number 896, a bully of sumo proportions, 19 met eyes with Number 2, a small boy too invested in his books to comprehend the elegance of 19. He too, was different, alone, picked on by larger boys like 124 and his gang of factors. The library became their safe haven, a sanctuary for the misfits, where they made fun of their bullies and were accepted, not ostracized. Their love was ill-fated, because on their first study date number 2 bought nineteen walnuts and they shared, until only one remained. The walnuts, like their …show more content…
There are imaginary, irrational, whole, negative, and complex numbers; every number is unique. I am Number 19, someone who puts milk in the bowl before adding cereal, someone who counts stars in the stands during a football game, and someone who believes the very phrase ‘Country Music’ is an oxymoron, no matter how many Taylor Swift concerts I have attended (against my will). Simply put, what makes odd numbers odd is their insistence to defy the societal norms that confine and limit them. From the moment we etch them down on paper, odd numbers are fixedly odd, permanently indivisible by a factor of