Lone Machine

A New Life

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The girl on the top is Vivian
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The name I was given was 5621, I was born in a lab filled with people who looked just like me. Today is the day when I will be tested to see if I can be sold or if I am like the other glitched designs, no one in my district talks about them but if I'm lucky I can over hear the other scientist talk about it. I don't sleep or eat or have emotions, this is what they have told me and I believe them because they are the only people I know. They lead me into a room where an older man sits on a chair with some files open on his lap, he doesn't look up at me or say anything. After a few minutes past the man gets up and Circles me like a cat eyeing its new prey.

"What is your name?" The man asks once he finally looks up from the file with a tired face and an irritated twitch in his eye but I answer him without a second thought.

"My name is 5621, sir" I say in a voice that has no emotion just like I have been rehearsing that line a million times, I look at him to give him the signal to continue.

"That is not your name anymore" He says with a pause and I am confused to hear this but excited to know what my new name will be: "Your new name is Vivian" He says this in a calm voice. I try hard not to look surprised or excited about hearing this news and put a strong, silent, and stony look on my face but when he circles me again I can't help but let a small smile from rising.

"Say something in French." He commands me as he sits down in the chair I saw him on the first time I entered.

"Mon nom est Vivian[1]" I say As he writes something down the file he's been holding and I can only guess that it is there to track down my progress through this whole test.

"Good, now say something in German." I nod at his command, I try to think of something that might be good to say. For a small amount of time I pause but finally think of something to say and I turn my face slight back at him.

"Ich bin eine Maschine[2]" He writes once more before he puts his gaze on me once more, he looks at me with a weariness in his eyes. I grow nervous and begin to think I said something I shouldn't have said.

"Okay, now say something in Japanese" He tells me in a voice that holds no emotion within it and I begin to fear that he might send me back, I could be dismantled for saying something I thought would be harmless but I continue to try to stay strong despite my feelings. I have to remember I'm not supposed to have any feelings at all.

"Hana ga utsushideesu[3]" I nod my head one last time before a screen appeasers in front of me. On the screen there is a model that looks like me, it tells me to move my head first from the left and right. Soon after that the man stands near me to watch the practice but while I am walking in a small circle, doing what the screen is telling me to do. The man stands in front of the screen and I stop my small circle I was making.

"Vivian, do you believe you are alive?" I'm confused to hear this and nervous because as much as I want to say yes I am scared to get disabled like the rest of the droids I have header of.

"No, I am not alive, I am a highly functioning robot that can clean, cook, and look after the kids when the parents aren't home." I replied with a confident tone until the man looked at me with a hidden meaning in his eyes, I think he wants the truth.

In a whispering tone he tells me "I know you think you're alive, Vivian." I freeze with fear but I try to maintain a stony face as he talks. "Listen, you don't need to hide the truth from me" I want to tell him so much, my head is screaming at me to keep my mouth shut because he is lying but my heart is telling me to tell him what I think.