Hey Babe!

Chapter 4: Gary lacks feelings!

Today, Gary was supposed to be taken to the market side.

Now, that kills two birds with one stone.

First, Leaf will do gorcery shopping, and Second, Gary will experience crowd. Because grocery markets are more crowded than a park.

And right now, the two, a human and a machine, were standing just at the entrance of Kanto Region's biggest grocery market. The market was full of people. There were two section; one for vegetables, and the other for non-veg stuff. And they start with vegetables.

Gary was walking stiffly (like he always does) with a monotone motion (which he definitely always does!) scanning the vegetables as he passes through them.

His scanner read many vegetables, and he would get all the information about that particular vegetable.

Leaf stips at one stall, and starts taking some stuff. She pays them back, and they move on.

Seems like Gary is learning."Hey Leafyyy!!" someone, particularly some woman yelled from the back.

Leaf turns her head around to find someone pretty familiar, whom she hadn't talked to in a huge while.

"Aunt Lucy!!!!" Leaf ahouts back happily, and runs back to talk to that middle-aged woman who was her mother's friend. This is this woman, who's daughter is Lyra, Leaf's only good friend.

Seeing no purpose here, Gary walks. Scanning the vegetables, he never knew when he walked so far, that Leaf's voice became quite distant. But he knows he can always go back there.

Still lost in his own world, Gary continues to walk, scanning more vegetables, finding some already familiar, and some new.

"Aahh! You!!!!!" some voice wakes Gary out of his trance, and whwn he turns to see the source of voice, he just sees a flash of something black.

His eyes couldn't scan. He turned in the direction of the black thing, and found a tall man, almost his height (since he is actually tall) wearing all black, running with something in his hands. Gary couldn't catch what it was.

He again turns back to the source of the voice, a man in his sixties, when finding no clue, as to what to do. He is looking for a command from that shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper looked disheveled, as if he lost something. Then he breaks into a frenzy, searsearching for something. Gary tilts his heads, not able to guess the action.

The man then turns to Gary, with a chopping knife in his hand. He stretches his hand out to Gary and says:

"Here! Take this!!"

Now, to all theother bystanders, that man giving Gary a knife meant that he should take that knife and start running behind the black man, who was a theif, and had stolen the poor shopkeeper's money; and run behind the thief, and if the situation calls for it, then throw the knife to injure his leg, and make him stop running.

But A Gary didn't knew it all. He is the one who works on statement commands. NOT ON GESTURES.

This all happens within a fraction of a second, that Gary decided what should be done.

"Aaaaaaaagh!!" came a shrill shriek of sone man, to which Leaf's ears perk up, being oblivious ofthe current situation, she turns her head around, after bidding a bye to her aunt.

But when she turns around, she didn't expect what she saw!

There was Gary, standing metres away from her, with a knife in his hand. In front of whon was an old man, bent diwn, clutching his own hand, blood dripping out of it. Violently.

She breaks into a sprint, and reaches Gary within milliseconds, eyes wide, and mind alert. She can feel that Gary has done something 'horribly wrong'!

There was chaos everywhere. She first goes to the old man, but she finds first aid being given to him, so she decides not to disturb. There were some Policemen coming ftom the far end, with a man in thier grasp, wearing all black. She turns around Gary.

"What happened!?" she asks.

"I don't kbow, this man started shouting all of a sudden!" he replies in his obviously monotone voice.

"Don't you dare say that young man!! YOU hit him!" a woman, also in her sixties, whom Leaf remembered to be this shopkeeper's wife, cuts in.

"What do you mean auntie!?" Asks Leaf. She wants to know.

Then she is told everything that happened. There was a thief at her shop, who happened to steal their money ran. They asked Gary to run behind him, and take the knife to injure the thief, but in turn he injured the old man. But police came just in tine, and saved it all.

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Leaf is disappointed.

How come this happened?

Why didn't Gary guess such a simple thing?

He is having the fastest processor ever! How did he not help then?

But then, why did he injure the man then?

He must've thought that the man wants him to hit him!

But couldn't he guess!!

That's when it clicked.

Gary could've helped thme, but:

Number 1: He cannot understand anything else than meaningful commands!

Number 2: He lacks that thing!

He lacks that very thing that makes humans humans.

He lacks feelings!

How could Leaf forget that!

Of course, it's them feels that makes humans humane.

But one thing she knows.

She needs to do something. Right Now!

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Leaf spends the next few nights thinking and doing calculations. She needs to make her machine perfect.

She shuts Gary Off, completely for those days. She feels her sister become somewhat feisty at that. But Leaf can't take a risk.

What if Gary hurts Lily!?

Is Gary a monster, but he is supposed to be a savior!

It's all my fault.

She knows it. It's her own fault.

Gary is still imperfect. I can't let Lily get close to him.

When this thought crossed her mind, she feels a bit wierd.

Recently, she's been monitoring Gary, and in the process she saw her sister too.

Her sister behaves differently around Gary. She always has this spark in her eyes. She takes care of him. Not that it's wrong. But she is almost possessive.

Whenever Leaf would take Gary for inspection, she would glare at her as if she hates her.

And Leaf had never seen such hate in her eyes.

No! Never in them.

It's like if she's...

It's almost like she is...

Could it be...

Nah! She knows he's a machine!

But still, who knows!

Meanwhile~

There is a certain someone who just happens ti have slammed the door behind Leaf.

Leaf turns around confused.

Must be my dog!

No It wasn't a dog. But a girl of Fifteen, having had enough ofnot have seen her crush in almost 24 hours.

Sometimes she wonders, what exactly does her elder sister do with him.

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THE END.

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