Kitt:
I waited patiently in the car park for Kassidy to return. A short while later she did, a bag of shopping in each hand, and a slight smile on her face. I couldn't work out why that would be. Less than half an hour ago she could have been seriously injured in a crash! Sometimes people are hard to understand.
"Hello Kitt," she said in greeting.
"Hello," I replied politely.
"Do you mind if I put my shopping in your boot, sorry… trunk. You're an American AI, aren't you?" Kassidy asked.
"You're right about that, and of course you can," I replied, opening the trunk for her.
"Thank you," she told me before placing her shopping bags in the trunk. As soon as she had done that, I closed it, and opened the door for her. She climbed in, so I started the engine and drove down the road.
"So, are there other cars like you?" Kassidy asked curiously. I paused for a moment before deciding to answer her question truthfully. "Kitt? Are you ok?"
"It's nothing to worry about?" I tried, not wanting to concern her with my malfunctioning circuits.
"No. It is something to worry about. The lights in the middle of the dashboard were flashing, as they do when you speak, but I couldn't hear anything."
"It's just a minor malfunction," I told her. "And the lights you were referring to are called the voice modulator."
She was silent for a moment, as though taking in the information. An emotion that I couldn't identify flashed across her face for a second before she spoke.
"Would you like me to have a look at it? I have some experience with circuitry and computers."
"Thank you… but I couldn't possibly accept," I said.
"I insist. Call it a thank you for saving my life!"
"OK," I replied reluctantly, turning onto the main road to Kassidy's flat.
"Well now that's settled, I have a slightly different destination for you." She paused for a moment, glancing out of the window to check our present location. "Turn right at the next road," she told me and I did so. "Would you mind stopping just here on the left while I go and open the door?" I pulled over, and she climbed out, pulling a set of keys out from her pocket. She opened the doors to a building just down the street from where I was parked before running over. "Come in," she said to me, so I drove up the short driveway and into the garage that she opened the doors to.
"Thought it would be a nice idea for you to stay here, as this is the place where I go to work on projects usually. Not that I view you as a project!" She added the last sentence hurriedly, obviously not wanting to offend me. "It's very nice of you to do this," I told her, while my scanner was taking in the room. On one side there was a work bench, and on top of it were pieces of circuitry. They didn't look like they had ever been finished, and a small layer of dust was over them as though they hadn't been touched in a while. I made a note to ask about it at some point.
"It's no trouble," she replied, heading towards my trunk. Guessing what she was going to do, I opened it. She eyes widened for a second in surprise, before she collected her shopping. "I'm going to take these back to my flat before I have to go to work. Will you be alright here on your own?" she asked.
"Of course."
"Bye Kitt."
"Bye Kassidy," I said as she walked outside, locked the doors and began the walk home.
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