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Silence is Golden

"Kotoko! Kotoko! It's time to exercise!"

"No it's not."

Both of the little persocoms were sitting on the table, Plum dancing circles around Kotoko, who scowled in return. Hideki and Chi were out, and unfortunately did not take Plum with them.

"Yes it is, Kotoko! Look at the clock! What's it say, what's it say?"
"Three forty-seven-"
"EXERCISE TIME!" Plum pulled out her whistle and blew two sharp blasts.

"We're computers," Kotoko said in a vain attempt to get her to stop, "We don't need to exercise."

"Ah-ah-ah, that's no excuse!" cried Plum, "So get up now and shake your kaboose!" Kotoko gritted her teeth. All of this nonsense was giving her a head-ache. (Or as close to a head-ache a laptop can get.) "One-two! One-two! Chakakaka! Three-four! Three-four! Come on, Kotoko! CHAKAKAKA!"

That was it.

"PLUM. SHUT. UP!"

She jerked to halt, suddenly still. Kotoko sighed with reflief. Then, in a very robotic tone, Plum said, "Error: Request denied! Unit is unable to perform requested action(s). Please upgrade unit, try again, or rebot!" And back to her rigorous and annoyingly loud exercise routine. "Chakaka..."

Kotoko could not stand it any longer. She wasn't programmed to withstand such torture. "Oh, I'll rebot you all right..." She muttered as she got up and went over to Plum...

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Later that day...

"What's wrong with her?"

"Sound card is broken." Kotoko reported casually, "She'll need it to be repaired."

Thankfully Hideki didn't ask her why Plum's sound card was broken, because she would have been forced to tell the truth. Of course, he could have found out the truth if he knew what Plum's frantic gestures and pointings at Kotoko meant. But he didn't. Mumbling to himself, he went off to find his manual on persocoms to see what he could do. (Later, he decides to just take her to Shimbo.) Plum in turn tried to convey her message to Chi instead, but she just smiled cluelessly and told Plum, "Chi will exercise later."


A/N: I love Plum (or Sumomo), I really do. She reminds me of myself. -grin- This was just a little thing I typed up when I should have been doing my three page essay-project for French. Moi, tres terrible. xD