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Chapter 4 - Kitten in a library

PREVIOUSLY

"𝙻𝚎𝚝'𝚜 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚍." The mechanic girl murmured and slowly dragged the crimson-eyed girl. They walked towards the stairs and then ascended them. M3GAN squeezed the hand she held gently and brought the fleshed girl to her room. She let go of the hand briefly to uncover the bed. Then with as much gentleness as she could muster, she tucked in the girl. It was no easy task considering the fact she had to be careful not to awaken her.

Once again, she released a fake sigh and was ready to leave the girl. Just as her hands no longer had any physical contact with the comforter the girl's hand shot up and grasped the silicone one. M3GAN turned around to check if perhaps the girl woke up, but she was still asleep. She must have just instinctively grabbed on. When M3GAN tried to pull away the grip on her wrist only tightened.

M3GAN stared down at her shackled wrist and then back at the scarlet-eyed girl. Both their irises shrinking and pupils expanding to accommodate to the darkness. The moonlight being the only thing illuminating the room. M3GAN gave up.

"𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗."

And that was that.

PRESENT

Breakfast was... awkward so to speak.

M3GAN wasn't as chatty as per normal. She only blankly listened to Cady's insistent giddy ramble. I wasn't paying much attention to it either but from the few snippets I could gather it was a dream about what it would have been like if both Cady and her new caregiver went to school together. She sounded excited by the notion. M3GAN didn't react.

By now you'd think she'd ask some sort of annoying question like 'Was your sister there?' or 'Did she get detention?'. She seems to like making fun of me so I wouldn't put it past her to take such an opportunity. But then again, she would try to make it more subtle. She likes to give hints about our relationship to the other two inhabitants of this house but would still refrain from fully confessing what is going on between us. This little world reserved only for the two of us. Our secret.

A pain really.

I continued eating and looking down at my plate while Cady and Gemma made conversation. I was curious about what was going on with the living doll but not curious enough to get out of my way and ask. After a while though thankfully Cady finally addressed the matter.

"M3GAN, are you ok?" Cady asked uncertainly and quietly as if not to disturb the robot. Her words seemed to not reach at first but then M3GAN did a very slow turn towards the youngest one in the room. Her eyes whirled and clicked in recognition towards Cady. It took her a bit to answer.

"𝙸'𝚖 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎  𝚋𝚒𝚝  𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍." She answered in a tone that was something between chipper and calm. Cady would have been fine with that answer, but Gemma wasn't. Gemma instantly furrowed her eyebrows and formed her mouth in a motion before starting to speak but debating first on her choice of words.