Three days after Hype left, I made it home from school again. It had been a long monday, I was so distracted in class, thinking about you-know-who. Now I had so much homework, as the teachers had said "Anything you don't get done in class is homework!" So now I had a day's worth of work to do, I wasn't like Mathew who cared about his grades, but I at least tried unlike Alex. I always made sure to turn in my assignments, and that was what mattered, or that's just what my parents taught me…

I sat down on the couch and was interrupted by a knock on the back door. I sighed, stood up, and answered it. There stood Hype, fully healed and happy to see me. I was happy to see her too. Very, very happy. But why did she need to come today out of all days? I can't do my homework and hang out with her at the same time, right? I took a deep breath and said "Listen Hype, I missed you and I'm happy to see you, but I have a lot of homework today."-

"It's okay Chad, I'll leave."

Dang it! She looked so happy to see me though. I couldn't do this, especially after her being alone for three days. I can't leave her alone anymore.

"No, Hype, you can stay. Just… please don't talk to me too much?" I looked up at her, and her face brightened.

"Okay Chad, I'll be quiet!"

WHAT- I didn't know how the heck it happened, but somehow I was on Hype's lap! I guess it started with her resting her head on my shoulder, and I kind of liked it, then she side hugged me, but how did I get onto her lap?! Yes, I was still doing homework, but now I was on this cuddly disassembly drone. I was still focusing, but this was somehow a hundred times better. It would definitely make all the boys at school jealous, even the ones that didn't like disassembly drones, which was most of them, including me because I didn't really consider Hype a disassembly drone. She's not a worker drone either, she's just, perfect. She's her own type of drone I guess, but definitely not what the company wanted her to be.

About two hours later I had finally finished my homework, then I carefully uncurled Hype's tail from around my arm and got off of her lap, because yes I had just sat on a girl's lap for two hours- I felt bad now, was she even okay with that?

"You could've told me to stop." I said to her.

"No, I liked it."

"W-Why? I just sat on your lap doing homework for two hours!"

"I don't know… I guess I just like being with you, and it felt kind of good."

I blushed, WHY DID SHE SAY THAT?! HOW DID IT FEEL GOOD FOR ME TO SIT ON HER LAP?

I didn't even want to know, I just wanted to hang out with Hype, so that's what we did for the next hour. We chatted, I showed her some of the memes I had made, and we even got a picture together. Later in the day, I put that picture in a private folder. I knew no one was going to look through my phone, but I wanted to keep that picture safe, just in case. In a perfect world, I would've made that picture my wallpaper. But no, I had to keep it hidden. I couldn't have the colony find out about Hype, who knows what they'd do, they'd at least ask her to leave, and that would be bad enough. What mattered now was that I had my very own picture of me and Hype, and I would cherish that picture for the rest of my life.