A small fan blew on your hot cheek as you panted heavily and gasped softly. Wrapped up in your sheets with someone else presently on top of you, your sweat slid down your bare spine as a metallic ticking chimed with every swaying rock of your bodies. Like an ocean wave turning you in your sheets as your heartbeat through your chest with delicate but intense passion. A deep growl purred in your ears like an echo, as the feeling in your body grew stronger. Between your legs, in your groyne. You were left breathless as your body heat became unbearably hot. Yet, nothing could make you want to leave this fantasy. Not when you were that close... It was like you were in a dream.
You woke up wrapped in a tangle in your sheets, cold and sweaty with only a fuzzy memory of what happened in your dream last night. Of course you remembered enough of it to make you blush as any wet dream would. You spent your morning trying to shake it off and clean yourself up, at the same time, a part of you wished you had more details of it. If only to remember who you were with in the dream.
Your weekend was over. Today you had the lunch time shift at your work as a server in a pub. A lot had happened the past few days.
"Sunny, I'm showering! Do not try to come in to clean the bathroom!" You called out to the house so that your neatfreak roommate would hear.
"Okay!" Sun chimed back.
You locked the bathroom door, just in case, before undressing yourself. It'd been a long time since you last showered while having other people living with you. Sun was a robot of course, but that didn't stop you from being that much more aware of your nakedness in the shower. Still, you needed the wash after putting it off this whole time. You let out a heavy breath, as the water ran down your bare spine...
You couldn't help but think of everything that's happened since you first saw Sun and Moon's shut down and neglected body near the old ruined Pizza Plex. Your small hobby of collecting broken things and restoring them ended up changing your life. You never could've imagined the kind of emotional investment you developed for a jester themed ai... But they've both proven to be more than worth the time and effort spent on them.
Even you had to admit, as you remembered that you have work to go to, you were going to miss them for the few hours spent not around them. You rushed to finish up your usual shower routine, and dry yourself off. As you got dressed in your work uniform you peered in the mirror at your form.
"Perfect..." Moon's voice came to mind as you tried to think positively about your body...
You got dressed quickly as you brushed off your thoughts. Sunny perked up as he heard you leave the bathroom looking clean and fresh.
"Where are you going?" He was wearing the cloud themed apron you bought him at the thrift store as he was cleaning. You were glad it fit him well enough. You slipped on your coat and shoes as you grabbed your bag and house keys.
"I've got work. I'll be back before dinner!" You waved as you opened the door to leave but Sunny ran after you.
"Wait!! Do you really have to go!?" He whined and pleaded.
"I do. If I wasn't worried about getting fired then I would stay with you both. But we all kinda need me to have this job if we want to keep living here!" You smiled at Sun as you went to pick up your bike from the back yard. Sunny wouldn't take one step out the door. It wouldn't be anything worth noting if it didn't look a little odd.
"Are you gonna be okay on your own for a few hours?" You asked softly. This will be the longest you've ever left them before, and you already know that they've eagerly waited at the door for your return both times.
"Can I have a goodbye hug?" Sunny asked shyly.
"Of course!" You smiled.
"Uh... Could you... come... here?" Sun eyed the outside world nervously from the inside of your doorframe.
"What's wrong?" You remembered, "Right, the sky is 'weird'." You leaned your bike back against the wall before going to Sunny and wrapping your arms around him.
"I was built to never leave the Mall. The outside is weird in general..." Sunny confessed with an anxious smile but didn't hesitate to hug you back tightly.
"We'll have to see if there's anything we can do to fix that when I get back. It's probably not good for your joints to stay cooped up in my place." You smiled and rubbed his back comfortingly. Both Sun and Moon still had to slouch or crouch in your basement suite if they wanted to stand. Sun spent a lot of time on his knees if he was cleaning, and Moon would sit or lay on your floor, often trying to get in the way of you doing anything other than going to bed. Kinda like a cat if you thought about it.
"Sunny, you can let go now." You try to get away from your 'goodbye' hug. Sunny whined with his ray's drooped sadly but let you go so you could put your helmet on and get your bike.
"How about this! When I get back, I've got a surprise for both of you!" You hopped on your bike ready to go when you heard Sun whine behind you,
"Now That's TWO Things I Have To Wait For!!" He cried out as you rode away.
You rode along the bike-filled streets. Passing delivery Ai at every turn, sending food, online purchases, and all sorts. The great lunch-rush. A perfect time to start your shift at a pub serving food and drink... Great. You locked up your bike and put on your name tag quickly as your manager was already calling you to get started with serving the newcomers. You barely had the time to take a breath to summon your customer service voice before you were standing in front of the largest table in the place, absolutely filled with people.
You zipped around taking people's orders and delivering food like your job depended on it, which it usually did. Your manager liked you best which only meant that most of the pressure was put on you to keep up your nearly perfect record. As perfect as a human can reasonably be. Your coworkers are convinced that if you fail, they'll all get replaced by service Ai. Which is financially impossible, even for a busy pub like the one you worked for. But the owner has a child-like obsession with Ai robotics so it's not like the fear wasn't completely unreasonable. Just one word from the manager if you were to fail. Even if the decision put the entire place to the ground in debt.
The lunch rush came and went leaving for the slightly calmer hour between late lunch and early dinner. That's when a familiar face sat at one of your tables.
"Hey!" The boy at the Part's and Service shop near your home greeted you with a surprised smile, as anyone does when two people run into each other in public.
"Shift, right?" you were surprised you remembered his name at all.
"Yeah! Are you working here?" He asked, initiating small talk. As anyone does when two people run into each other in public...
"Yeah..." You pointed at your tag before awkwardly getting back to your job, "Uh... can I get you any drinks to start?..." Your customer service voice had dropped as meeting a person you know made it feel inappropriate to say your usually scripted lines.
"Just water is fine..." Shift also felt weird saying his usual scripted lines as a "pub guest". While you both knew each other, you didn't know each other well enough to exactly be "friendly" either, so the both of you went on. You had other tables to tend to anyway, but you couldn't help but get the feeling that he had something else he wanted to say.
"Hey," Shift spoke up as he went to pay his bill, "Just tell me if I'm being creepy, but would you want to get dinner sometime.... With me." He mustered the courage through his whole lunch and was finally able to ask, and with minimal slip ups and stuttering as well!
"Compared to some of my regulars, you're not even in the ballpark of creepy." You chuckled.
"Oh good..." He sighed in relief. You had to give his question some careful consideration however. Buy why? You'd wanted nothing more for the past several months to go on a date with someone, anyone who wasn't just an old pervert. Shift had been sweet to you so far. You didn't know much about him, but that is kinda the point of a first date. Still, something in your heart held you back from jumping at the opportunity. Maybe it was nerves?
"I'll take a 'maybe'. If that's all I can get for now. You know where to find me! Heh!" He must have noticed your hesitation as you thought.
"Let me think about it... I've been busy lately..." You admitted.
"With your new Ai?" He teased.
"Yeah, heh." You chuckled back.
"Can I have your number so we can at least call?" He asked politely.
"Sure, here!" His recite printed off the machine right in time for you to write your phone number on the back of it. He took it and smiled and waved as he left.
"I'll call tonight!" he added. You watched him leave, and caught a glimpse of him celebrating to himself with the widest smile. It was charming to watch and put a smile on your face.
"Making friends?~" Your manager snuck up on you with a knowing smirk.
"No!" You jumped out of your skin.
"Then what'd you write on his recite? Huuuh!?" Your manager poked as you tried to go back to your job. Just one more hour...
"Hey could you cover for-" fuck...
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Thinking about throwing in the towel and starting over for this book. It's just not going how I originally planned it to.
What do you think?
Should I delete and start over or just leave this and make a new one?