"Good morning Optura..."
"Good morning Dave"
I felt like I woke up after a long sleep. It's been a while since I slept like this. I got out from the bed.
"Good morning sir, would you like to take nutrient tablets for the day?"
"No need Ophera. I don't feel hungry. I ate my last nutrient capsule just 3 days back." Ophera was a 215.081 model robot assistant made for health care and house hold maintenance and Optura was my personal assistant. I guess I interact with these two more than anyone in this universe now.
"Would you like to run taste bud simulation for any legacy food items?"

"No, I'm fine" I miss those days when I could eat real food.
"Optura... What is my schedule today?"

"Today you have a appointment for tissue replacement and cell maintenance . Later there is a party with your friends JO X15, Raj N87 and Diva B21. "

"Any other notifications? "

"You have received payout of your three servant robots working in their respective fields. Your request of having a human baby is rejected. And....

"What? Not again... I'm tired with company of robots around me. What's the reason they gave? "

"They are not allowing new offsprings untill we find a new planet to build another habitat"

"These mor#ns.. I know that these people have found atleast 5 more planets and built habitat there. But they're only allowing the rich people to produce offsprings. Anyhow, no use" I was already tired of this government. But if I say more words. They'll come and arrest me for violating code of respect. I tried to calm myself down.

" Anything else Optura? "

" Your girlfriend dia H71 has revoked relationship status with you. "

" That's fine. It's been around 4 years. It's time for a change "

"Ok Optura. I have one interaction today, isn't it?. Let's move to interaction room."

Interaction room is still something which creeps me out. It's been a while since I met someone directly. Maybe around a year. It's simple science, we can connect two interaction rooms from any corner of the universe. If two interaction rooms are paired. It's kind of wormhole. Travelling through space with a blink of an eye. When the connection is established. Two different rooms becomes one. It sync the time and space around it. We can use it to travel from one place to another or use it as a conference room.

We entered the room, Since Optura takes care of all settings and pairing stuff. I don't even know how that works. Within seconds my doctor arrived. He also pulled inside a trolley with some equipments. Whenever someone comes through that door of interaction room I get a strange feeling. Like ghost passing through a wall. Slowly his body parts becoming visible one by one.

"Hello Dave B17, Hi Optura"
"Hi 775.P1 " Optura replied. Ofcourse you guessed correct. The doctor is a humanoid robot , just like Optura. Optura is just a pet name I gave to her. I was not interested in calling her with set of numbers. Doctor is more advanced version of robots. With powerful analysis tools like EM scanning. He can see through my body. They scan our body in different depths and form a 3D model within seconds. A walking multi speciality hospital.

"Hi doctor..."
"How you're feeling, last time you had a check up before 15 years. It's been a while since you had a checkup after that."

"Yeh, when you're living like a immortal for more than 2 century, you'll get less excited about our physical condition. Moreover I guess my whole body consist of artificial transplants now. Even I can control my senses."

"Ha ha... You are always funny"

"You are seeing me for the first time. And you're speaking like you know me for forever"

"Ofcourse I know you forever. I have downloaded all your past interactions with other doctors and analysed it. So I guess I can use 'always' in my sentence"

"Sometimes I can't even believe that you're a robot."

"Ha ha.. let's move to the analysis"

He turned silent and started staring at my body. This part always gets me.
' Body scanning on progress '
' 3 sets of tissue damage found '
' body scanning completed '
' No errors found in bionic implants and integrated add-ons '

"Dave B17, itseems we need to replace three tissue sets in your body. Shall I proceed?"

"Yeh sure, I give permission to make changes in my body. And you don't need to add my surname always when you call me. Keep it Dave. This is not some boarding check, right?"

"Sure Dave" he smiled

We all carry a small usb port T behind our neck. To configure our bionic implants, control simulations and add-ons.

Doctor connected his system to mine . I was falling asleep. He might have initialised tissue replacement command.

.

"Dave...Dave... you can wake up. The procedure is over."

I slowly regained my conscious.

"Do you wish to look at some new add-ons?"

"No doctor. Even I still haven't tried all the add-ons and virtual world simulation which I installed last time."

"Fine then. Have a nice day "

"Thank you doctor"

We both came out of the room.

"What's next plan Optura?"

"The party with your friends starts in 1 hour"

"Ok. Let's prepare things for a party"

" I have already set up all requirements sir " Ophera showed up

"You guys never allow me to do any thing ..."

"Sorry sir, I thought you'll be pleased. Should I undo all preparations I made so that you can do on your own?"

"No Ophera, it's fine"

"Optura , they're coming here or again it'll be a holographic party."

I still haven't got any updates from them. I'll ask for updates soon.

I went and sat on my bed. I started thinking about my childhood. I was born in zeptron planet. One of the first base camp of humans after Earth got destroyed. My parents were so sad always thinking about their childhood. But they never shared their feelings. Anyhow I understood that they missed their planet. We created artificial replicas of almost everything existed in earth. But they say that something was missing always.

Now I'm sad thinking about my childhood. It's been almost 2 centuries. Now human race have developed in a way that technology is saturated. But still they're extending their empire.

"Hi Dave, you seem worried!"

Optura was staring at me. She became my personal assistant around 30 years ago. She always changed her looks frequently so that I don't get the feel of repetition in my life. Now she have taken a look of a teenage blonde. She looks so hot actually. She knows me very well that I feel like she can predict my actions sometimes.

" Optura ... You're looking so beautiful today! "

"Oh.. thank you Dave" her new voice was also so soothing. She was blushing.

"I slowly went near her and kissed her"
I guess you already got to know that we have had sex before. Sometimes I totally forget that she's a robot. But she's the one who pushes my sensation too far.

I only keep a human relationships for name sake. For love... Because I'll never know whether Optura loved me. It's just a robot. Programmed without any free will. Once I was so
Possessed with her that I tried to treat her like a slave. But still she never tried to hurt me. She always loves me . Soon they'll add those features too.

Then I'll stop being in a relationship with a human ,once and for all!

We had our time and I couldn't stop thinking about my stupid theory of falling in love with a robot whole time.

A hour passed

"Dave .. it seems that your friends have opted for holographic party. They said their credit balance is low and they don't want to spend it traveling through interaction room."

"Those punks... Always they do this. Tell them that I'll pay for the credits"

"They haven't booked the usage of I-room. I don't think they'll get acces now."

Maximum number of pairing at a instance was controlled by government so that there will be no overloading and errors. We need to book the slot unless it's emergency.

After few minutes our prestigious holographic party started. We became used to this that now we started to feel that this is a normal party. We had some drinks , watched one movie together. It was about a couple living in earth . I guess all of the actors are also robots . All Stories about earth freaks me out. I can't believe people used to live like that. In this planet I can't even go outside physically because of temperature. But we can travel through many places through virtual simulations. After watching the movie we played a multiplayer virtual simulation game.

It was a old game from earth. Named football

Current generation of virtual games are so realistic than before. When I connect my usb into gaming box and initialise sync. I feel like I travel inside that game. I can feel the fatigue ,pain, adrenaline etc.

We played for a while and came back offline. After playing the game still we will have that sensation of tiredness and fatigue in our body. We can choose whether to keep it or refresh our sensation system by resetting it. But usually we don't reset it ,so that we feel the josh of the game for some time.

Party ended and we all were pretty tired. Raj and Jo refreshed themselves by resetting their body. I didn't because whenever I do that stuff I feel myself as a robot. Diva looked so dull. Usually she's the one who becomes crazy in parties.

Raj and Jo disconnected from the party.

"Dave... Shall I ask you something?"

"Sure Diva, what's the matter?"

"I'm feeling kindoff strange, you know my friend Jua right? She terminated her system last month"

"Really? But why?"

"That day she called me and said she's tired of this life. She said she doesn't feel alive anymore. Not like a human. We rarely even speak with each other now. We rarely meet each other. She was trying for the license for a offspring. That was also rejected I guess"

Suddenly some shiver creeped into my head. These are my thoughts too. I remember thinking about this. Is that mean...
I'll also end up in suicide soon...

I tried to wake up from drowning into those thoughts

"Don't worry diva. She lived her life. She lived for around 100 years. Sometimes people get bored of the life. Don't stress on it"

"I'll try Dave, it was really a shock for me. Anyhow I'll leave now. I'm not interested in troubling you"

"You need a sleep. Feel free to talk with me whenever you wish"

She disconnected her call

"Optura... What do you feel about Jua's words? "

"Nothing particularly Dave. I just felt her mind was over thinking about her repetitive life"

" I guess so "

"Ok.. good night Optura, I'll go to sleep wake me after 12 hours"

'''Turning night mode on''' (Ophera)

" Good night Dave "
....

Optura connected her system with Dave's system using usb to make him sleep.

''' Sending analytics of human sample '''
''' Fade discussion with Diva B21 '''
''' Report Diva B21 for suspicious thoughts generation '''
''' Running anti depression add-on...
Removed all multi threaded suspicious thoughts '''
''' Inducing dreams category : pleasant '''


'Dave, I love you... I'll always love you'

© Vibin Dave