Chapter 9

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"Well...ha...YES, SISTER COMING...my sister's calling, I'm going!"
"She left a long time ago," Mohini said sternly.

Adarv stood frozen, as if the world had paused-nothing moved, not even the housefly that buzzed nearby.

"Mmmm...ah...Mother's calling!"

"They know that we are dating. After all the *PDA you did, you expect my girl to not know?" Mohini gave Adarv a side-eye.

"Oh, so you two are dating?"

Tab's words caught everyone off guard. Sahi's heart skipped a beat. Her fragile friendship with Mohini, held together by nothing more than tape, was about to unravel again.

They both stared at Sahi, silently as if asking, You told him everything?

"Wait, let me explain!" Sahi blurted out everything-how she'd gone home, her feelings for her tab (device), to the moment he came alive.

Mohini looked at Tab intensely.

"So... you're not human?"

"I am. But I wasn't...before."

Nobody understood what he meant-at least, that's what Sahi thought. But then Adarv approached Tab, eyes wide with fascination.

"You were a device before, but now you're not"

"Yes," Tab was glad at least someone got it.

"Quite intriguing, indeed. Sahi, what are you going to do now?"

"I can't exactly take him home, can I?"

Tab felt a wave of sadness at Sahi's words. He didn't know what to say or even how to feel-after all, he hadn't been capable of feeling anything until just a few hours ago.

Adarv's laughter echoed in the back of Tab's mind, a hollow sound.

Sahi's voice broke through his thoughts.

"I was thinking... he could stay with you."

Both Adarv and Tab were speechless, but neither showed it. Tab, as if to hide his surprise, turned his attention to Caramel, who had somehow sensed his sadness.

Before Adarv could speak,

"Adarv, da, Chechi couldn't find cotton candy ice cream in the shop..."

Adarv's sister stood in the doorway, staring directly through the window.

"Well, well, what do we have here?"

She grinned mischievously, as though she had just caught them in the middle of a secret meeting.

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Incident: Confession

*Public display of affection

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