Allan, a young man with white-haired hair, blue eyes, pale-skinned to show he has never tanned, wearing a white T-shirt with over a black jacket, jeans and a pair of black shoes.
He browses the vast selection of androids in a CyberLife store, androids looked exactly like humans. If, there was not an LED on their temples, it surely would not differentiate them. He giggled at this thought, he approached and looked at a model RT600, he looked at the model specializations. A store employee noticed this and smiled as he walked towards him.
"Excuse me sir. Can I help you?" The employee asked before Allan turned to face him, and pointed to the android
"Yes, can you tell me about this model, please?" Allan said looking at the android, making the employee smile.
"Ah, the RT600 model, the first model ever presented to the public, is one of our most popular models. It is designed to socialize primarily, but it can perform other tasks." Allan frowned and shook his head.
"I'm looking for something more advanced, maybe to help me around the house too." Allan said giving a search criterion to the employee.
He smiled and asked Allan to follow him. He followed it as indicated, and the employee went to a terminal and repeatedly tapped on the terminal. Allan looked at the screen, a variety of male and female androids was visible, but one of them caught his attention.
"Here we are." The employee's smile was a little annoying now, he waved his hand, the android who had caught Allan's eyes, turned his head and smiled at him.
The android was by far the most beautiful android of the store, she had a kind face, giving the desire to trust him, blue eyes, and her impeccable brown hair was brought in ponytail. If she was not an android and she was in the street, Allan would probably have invited him for a drink.
"Tell me about her." Allan said without breaking his eyes. The employee could say he had hung Allan.
"The AX400, designed to work as a servant, even if it is able to socialize, perform other basic tasks, and take care of children." Allan looked at the android, and smiled at him.
"Yes, I heard about it, a friend's parents have one. I think I'll take it." Allan noticed that the android seemed to say "thank you" but he ignored her thinking that he had a hallucination due to lack of sleep.
"Excellent, do not move, I'll get it for you." Said the employee still smiling before leaving to look for the model that Allan asked for and comes back followed by the android.
"Would you like to give him a name?" Asked the smiling employee.
"Yes please." Allan asked.
"AX400, save your name." The employee ordered the Android before the latter looked at Allan.
"Kara." Allan said giving a name to the android.
"My name is Kara." The android said, registering his name as the employee smiled.
"Now, there is just the small issue of payment settled." Said the employee guiding Allan followed from Kara to the cashier. "It will be $ 899. In cash or by card." He said giving the price of android.
"By card." Allan answered.
The employee pulled out a terminal to insert his card in the terminal and typed his code on the terminal, once the payment accepted, he removed the card.
"Have a nice day." The employee said.
"You are the same." Allan said, before leaving with Kara towards his car.
He opened the door on the passenger side and let it in before she got inside. He entered the driver's side and drove off before driving them to his house. The ride went quietly with Allan, who sometimes looked at Kara to see her admiring the landscape as if she admired the world for the first time. Once arrived in front of his house, he saw that the bins of his neighbor are close enough to his house to make the possibility of this parked difficult. He tried hard to park without spilling the garbage cans, but still, they eventually fell during the niche.
Allan got out of the car first and opened the door on Kara's side to allow her out and once she got out, he closed the door and when they start to go towards the house, they hear someone call.
"Hey, Kramer!" Called a visibly overweight person with greasy hair, a little beard and an unpleasant face.
"Yes, Satan?" Allan asked, before returning to face the man. "Oh, my bad, it's just you, Todd." Allan said calling the man by name with a hint of mockery.
"You've flipped my trash again, I'll let you know." Todd said annoyed by Allan's mockery.
"I would not have paid them back for the god alone knows how many times, if you did not fuck them in front of my house. So you're nice, but go home and be a good father. And leave me alone." Allan said clearly before turning his back to Todd who stared at him angrily.
Allan has unlocked the door of his house, it is a mundane house big enough, to live there 2 or nobody, already cleaned with the living room to connect to the kitchen with behind this one a cubicle, a staircase at the entrance leading to the first floor which has two bedrooms, a bathroom and toilet.
He held the door open for Kara who seemed a little surprised by his action. Allan closed the door just after entering with Kara.
"Ok... so I guess I have to..." Allan looked at the android, she seemed to be looking inside the house.
"Are you all right, Allan?" Asked Kara as she took note of Allan's loss of words, Allan hesitated at Kara's use of his name, but continued.
"Yeah, it's just a little odd for me, I never owned an Android." Allan noticed that Kara's LED had turned yellow, she said nothing for a moment, then her LED went blue.
"If you feel better, most people have a similar reaction when they buy androids for the first time." Kara said trying to make Allan more comfortable with her.
Allan nodded, his confidence slowly returned, he started walking in the kitchen, Kara followed him.
"You are right. It's just that when I went to buy an Android, I did not expect it to be as pretty as you." Allan said frankly what made him hesitant.
Kara's LED went yellow, as if she were trying to treat what Allan had just said.
"Thank you." Kara told Allan for his compliment.
Allan nodded before serving a glass of water and drinking it. He put the glass on the counter of the kitchen before seeing that the sink was filled with crockery and covered room.
"Well, we'll have to take care of it." Allan said, telling Kara to do the dishes.
Kara nodded and passed Allan, and she started doing the dishes before being quickly joined by Allan helped him wash the dishes.
"I can handle it alone, Allan." Kara said.
"Yes, but I said "we"." Allan argued with a friendly smile.
Kara agreed and they did the dishes together and dried her up before Allan sat on the couch and started a movie on Netflix. Kara walked over to Allan and spoke.
"Tell me, Allan. If you still do the dishes and obviously also take care of the house. Why did you buy me?" Kara asked.
Allan turned his head and looked at Kara.
"I moved here several months ago after finding a job that allows me to stay at home to work. And I ended up needing a company." Allan answered.
Kara's LED went yellow before turning blue a few seconds later.
"If you want company, you could have taken a WR400 model. This model would have allowed you to take a lot of pleasure as well as human standards." Kara said, blushing Allan a bit.
"No, not in that sense, just someone to talk to, with whom had a good time. And the bad things if they were friends of mine, is that they would make a lot of parties, and with the noise, it would be impossible to work properly." Allan explained.
"I see. I hope that I will meet your expectations." Kara said.
"You can teach me, you know. It does not bother me." Allan said, before getting up and the news of the day on a tablet sitting on the counter. "So... Kara... tell me about you."
"I was made in 2038 and I'm mainly designed for..." she began before Allan stopped him.
"No, I do not want to know your factory settings. I mean "you", like ... what do you like?" Allan said wanting to get to know Kara more as a person than as a result of technology.
Kara looked at Allan, her LED was yellow, she put her hands on the counter before looking at Allan
"I do not understand the question, I do not have the right to love anything." Kara answered.
Allan shook his head, put down his tablet and looked at Kara.
"You mean you do not have an opinion on anything?" Allan asked.
Kara looked at Allan, and he noticed that she seemed embarrassed.
"I like you, but I think that apart from that, you may be right." She said, caring for Allan as he asked.
"It makes me hot in my heart." Allan said, before turning on his HIFI channel and throwing Livin 'La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin.
Allan was a little carried away by the rhythm of the music and hummed the music before seeing that Kara typed in rhythm with the music against the counter and decided to sing the song for a little fun.
"She's into superstitions. Black cats and voodoo dolls. I feel a premonition. That girl's gonna make me fall." Allan sang, starting to get carried away by the rhythm of the music.
Kara looked at him with an amused look as he continued to dance before Allan looked at her and she timidly looked at the counter hoping he was not seen how she looked at him. He went to Kara and touched her shoulder, she turned, he held out her hand to take it.
"Do you want to Dance ?" Allan asked, taking a Gentleman pose that invites a woman to dance at a ball.
Kara smiled, and she took Allan's hand.
"She'll make you live her crazy life. But she'll take your bread away. Like a bullet to your brain." Allan danced with Kara to the rhythm of the music. He smiled at her, seeing that the android seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Indeed, she's having fun. The chorus begins and they sing it in unison.
«Upside inside out. She's livin 'la vida loca. She'll push and pull you down. Livin 'la vida loca. Her lips are devil red. And her skin's the color of mocha. She will wear you out. Livin 'la vida loca. She's livin the vida loca." They sing together together with the singer.
It was easy to see that Kara would give anything to make this moment last forever. Unfortunately, the song was about to end. Kara chuckled as they parted and Allan laughed before turning off the HIFI channel. And he saw Kara watching that she was a little embarrassed.
"I'm going to my office, it's right next to the cubicle if you're looking for me. In the meantime, you can do what you want." Allan said giving him a loving smile before leaving for his office.
The hours passed Kara finally entered Allan's office to see him in front of a computer writing on a word document without noticing it. She stepped behind him and put her hand on his shoulder to get his attention.
"What's up, Kara?" Allan asked.
"It's 8 pm, so I made you some food. Kara said kindly.
"You did not have to. Thank you, it's very nice of you." Allan said before getting up and heading to the dining room table that Kara had prepared before picking him up and saw that she had cooked an omelette with ham.
"I did not know what dish you like so I thought when I saw that there was something to do in the fridge that you would enjoy." Kara said hoping to have achieved her goal.
Allan put a reassuring hand on his shoulder before speaking.
"Do not worry, this is one of my favorite meals." Allan said, before sitting down and pumping Kara's chair in front of his. "You can sit too, you know. It does not bother me." Allan said.
Kara sat down on the chair in front of him and decided to start the conversation.
"What is your job?" Kara asked
"I'm an author for a shop. I write them a chapter a week and I am pretty well paid to go to this house and do my shopping." Allan answered.
"What do you write mainly?" Kara asked, curious about Allan's work.
"Mainly a story where monsters creepypasta its real and where a specialized police is responsible for regulating their appearance and the damage they do around them." Allan explained.
"It's a pretty good idea to bring them up to date." Kara said.
"Thanks, the hard part is when I have to talk about history like Slender Man. It is surely the most creepypasta character of all." Allan said, continuing to eat.
Kara continued to ask Allan questions about his work until he finished eating and did not go back to his office.
Several hours later, Kara entered the office for Allan asleep beside his keyboard. She went into the living room to take a blanket on the couch and put it on Allan's shoulders and back. Allan still asleep when he felt a Kara hands placed the blanket over his shoulders, placed his hand on hers to give Kara a strange thrill that she could not identify the cause.
A week later, in the early afternoon, Allan went out to bring his garbage cans, close to the front door of his house to see a little girl playing with a plush sitting in front of Todd's house. He approached and began to talk to him.
"Hello, Alice. How are you?" Allan asked calling the child by name, lowering himself to his height.
"Hello." Alice said simply.
"Is everything going well with your father?" Allan asked.
Alice did not answer, but Allan knew it was between Alice and Todd. He hears her almost every night shouting at her about all the misfortunes in his life, he even heard Todd hit him once. Allan wanted to do something, but compared to Todd, he is not that big-mouthed and could just end up in the hospital with assault ass.
"Look, if you're afraid your father hurts you or you need to talk to someone, do not hesitate to come see me. Okay?" Said Allan wanting to reassure the little girl by offering him a way out to the violence and moral or physical abuse of his father.
Alice nodded slowly and Allan decided to leave and when he turned back to his house, he saw Todd parked on one side deliberately hitting the back of his car damaging the trunk and Kara watching them and Alice. He decided to stay calm in the face of Todd's provocation and head for Kara.
"Oh, sorry Kramer. I had not seen your car." Todd said falsely awkwardly.
"No matter anyway Kara saw the incident so can provide evidence to reassure you that you are wrong." Allan said, before leaving with Kara in his house.
Once inside the house Kara noticed that Allan was restraining himself from hitting a wall of anger and then spoke.
"I'm sorry, Allan. I did not see anything." Kara said apologetically.
Allan turned and his gaze softened and his fist loosened when his eyes met Kara.
"I know do not worry. I just said that to Todd to make him believe that the accident he caused will only put him in the shit more than anything else." Allan said calmly before leaving to sit on his couch and put his hands on his face.
"Why do you have such a hateful relationship with Todd?" Kara asked.
Allan looked at Kara and motioned her to sit down what she did while sitting right next to him.
"It all started when I moved in 3 months ago. I saw him go out as employees of the shops where I bought my furniture with my parents to help me transported and climbed. I just greeted him politely and he replied in a half-friendly tone. I thought, "Well bah just an idiot that I will avoid as much as possible." Then I saw her daughter, Alice played with her stuffed toy. She was shy at first. I was just saying that she was shy, because I was new to the neighborhood, then her father called him and I saw his face twitching. I remembered what I learned in a few psychology books that I read for my stories and realized that she was afraid of her father and closed up on herself. I was just assuming, but when one night I heard Todd shouted, shot noises and Alice begged her father. Without hesitation, I called the police and she arrived half an hour later. Todd according to police Todd said that he saw a beast and tried to kill him and that Alice begged him for the death because she was afraid of it. Once part of Todd and came to see me and said after giving me a blow in the nose: "Mangle your stuff, asshole." At that moment, he did as much as he could to make me feel bad. But every time, I find a way to send him off, but internally, I just want to hit him until he begs me to stop." Allan explained doing his best not to get upset at the thought that Todd escaped while beating his own daughter.
"And Alice..." Kara asked with a hint of concern that Allan had detected.
"Sometimes only a certain night, I hear her crying with Todd, who is shouting at him and shutting him up. I can hardly sleep because of that. I tried to get closer to her to put her in trust, but because of her silence and the difficulties she had to trust me." Allan replied.
"I am sorry." Kara said putting a reassuring hand on Allan's leg.
"You're not at fault, Kara." Allan said placing a hand on Kara's. "You know, I get the impression that some androids are more human than real humans, even you." Allan said exposing his thoughts on androids.
Kara's LED went yellow for a few moments before turning blue again.
"Thank you. It makes me very happy." Kara said before Allan placed a kiss on his forehead and went up the stairs to sleep having hardly slept all night to finalize the chapter of the week.
Kara touched her forehead precisely where Allan lay her lips, wondering why Allan was so kind and affectionate with her. She climbed into Allan's room a few minutes later to see him lying on his bed back to the door with the room fully immersed in the black T-shirt removed and placed on the floor and with the little light he There was thanks to the door to see scars that seemed to be made by blades of non-serrated knife.
The scars form a circle with a cross. Deep enough to be visible without being able to remove the skin. Kara was shocked to see this, but said nothing and gently closed the door so as not to wake him.
Later, Allan was awakened and wore his shirt and noticed that Kara looked at him oddly when he was behind her.
He then heard someone running up the stairs in Todd's house and this last one called Alice very loudly. Unable anymore Allan part of the house with Kara who followed him until he reached the window of Todd's house to see him go in the direction of the stairs with his belt in his hand saying he was going to make a correction to Alice .
"I will not let you bastard." Allan said, before approaching the door and trying to push it down.
After 3 attempts, he arrived there and decided to give Kara something he did not give him since they knew each other. An order.
"Kara, whatever happens, I order you not to come upstairs and if Alice decent takes you to our house, you make every effort to enter the house double-door, door, window and call the police. It's an order. Okay?" Allan said firmly.
Kara nodded and Allan went up the stairs leaving Kara on the ground floor of Todd's house. She heard a fight between Todd and Allan, she did not know what's going on upstairs. Did Allan dominate the fight or was it Todd? Did Allan go to die? She felt something that androids never normally feel: fear.
She wanted to disobey the order, she felt that her mind was against it, it was not right, why could not she help Allan? The part of her mind that told her to obey became quieter until she disappeared.
She went upstairs and saw in the first open door revealing Todd's room with a pistol on the dresser right next to the door. Kara took the gun and went to the end of the hallway where the second door is open to see Alice in a corner of the play in the battle between Todd and Allan.
Allan tapped Todd's face as Todd hit his chest and Allan's face. Allan bleeds from his nose and grabs Todd's blows as if he doesn't feel the pain and continues to hit Todd without realizing that Kara has entered holding a pistol. Todd eventually takes the lead and grabs Allan by the neck starting to strangle him. Kara took a fright to lose Allan fired a bullet into Todd's heart as he collapsed after realizing what he had come from.
Allan watched as Kara held the weapon in amazement and fear. He went beyond what he felt and went to Alice.
"It's okay?" Allan asked, nodding Alice. "Do you have any family besides your father?" Allan asked, but this time Alice shaking her head meant no. "Do you want to go with us?" Allan asked not losing a single second.
Alice nodded, hugging Allan. Allan carried her and took Kara's hand to leave for the car, he put Alice down and let go of Kara in front of the car before hastily taking a pack of cake, her wallet, her keys, coats and clothes in a bag before joining them seeing it was raining hurried to close the door to the key opened the back door to make Alice and the bag by giving her the cake box for if she was hungry.
He opened the door of the passenger seat so that Kara entered the car quickly seeing her frightened face and entered the driver's side car before starting and left as quickly and as far as possible without violating the rules of the road to avoid attracting be careful in their flight.