A Contradiction of Life - Part 2

[The Liar]

A Contradiction of Life - Part 2

Alyssa closed her access panel; the seams in her chest disappearing with a click.

David just stood there in stunned silence.

“Well…say something.” Alyssa pleaded, “You know like ‘This has to be a joke’ or ‘Everything I knew about you is lie’ or, you know, maybe ‘Hey you’re a robot, I think that’s hot.’” Alyssa gave a weak smile. “I’m kinda hoping for that last one, but please say something!”

David gave a bewildered look, “a…um… err…so if I squeeze your breast, it opens?”

Alyssa turned red, and began re-buttoning her blouse.

“I didn’t mean…I need to release the lock first.” Alyssa replied, “You can grope me without worry, ok.”

“Sorry… I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just…” David paused as he sat down in his chair, “I don’t know what to say… I don’t even know what to think.”

David paused for another moment.

“So,” he began “you don’t really work in the testing department do you?”

“No, I work there,” Alyssa replied, “then they let me do what I want in my spare time.”

This surprised David; he had assumed she had been spending her time there being poked and prodded. Then again, the entire situation didn’t make much sense to him.

“Um, Why?” he asked, “I mean what’s the point? You’re a test unit, what are you being tested on?”

“I think… its social interaction in business and casual settings, with and without independent discretion… I think,” she gave an uncertain expression, then continued, “Truthfully, I don’t really know. That’s the thing about being an experimental test android is no one feels any obligation to explain things to you.”

“That was oddly specific for a guess.” David commented.

Alyssa shrugged, “I work in the department… I kinda have an idea how they do things.”

“So…” David continued his questioning, “if some one asks you on a date, you have to ask your bosses-“

“NO!” Alyssa interrupted, almost panicked, “I mean yes… I’ll have to get their approval to have someone approved to intimacy test me, but merely someone asking me out doesn’t obligate me to try to get them approved.”

“I want you to understand something,” she continued, “They’re letting pick my own intimacy tester… sure they have to give the A-OK, but it’s my choice… probably the only real one I’ll ever have…and I like you …a lot…more then anyone else. You’re the only real friend I ever had… the only one who ever cared about me. I want to love you.”

She got on her knees and grabbed his hand.

“Actually, I’ve wanted this for a long time…” She confessed, “but I was always to afraid to ask. Maybe you wouldn’t feel that way about me…and… you know…well… all of this.”

She looked at him pleadingly.

David looked at her for a long moment. Alyssa was still Alyssa. She was still the same woman he’d had lunch with. The same person he’d got drunk with. The same person he’d been fawning over since the moment he met her, and here she was pouring her heart out saying she felt the same. This was a nigh’ on story book situation. Her being robot seemed like such an irrelevant thing.

“Alyssa,” David spoke, “I’m still not sure what to make of all this, but I’m will to give this, whatever this is, a chance.”

Alyssa leapt up and hugged him, “Thank you! I’ve always I liked you more than anyone.”

“Well, um, tha- Alyssa!? Alyssa!?” Alyssa’s face had suddenly gone blank, and she became unresponsive.

“Aly-“ David was cut off, when Alyssa suddenly regained her life, and changed her hug to a straddling kiss.

“But now I love you,” Alyssa purred as she shifted herself to sit in his lap, “So… dinner and a movie?”