My Life As A Teenage Robot Porn Story: Tell all ye faithful Chapter 6
I opened my eyes. “What is it Brad?”
“Today’s Christmas Eve.” He said.
“Cool. What happens on Christmas Eve?” I asked him.
“This.” He handed me a present.
“Brad, you shouldn’t have.”
“Open it.”
Inside there was a snow globe with a house in it, and I swear that there was someone standing in front of that house that looked like she could be a robot. “This is the greatest present I ever got. Thank you!”
“Don’t sweat it.” He said, “It was nothing.”
“Oh Brad.” Tuck said.
“Tuck, what are you up to?” Brad asked.
“You got my present?” Tuck said in a coy voice.
“If you got mine.”
“What are you guys doing?” I asked them.
“And…” Brad stared him down, “1 2 3!”
Tuck and Brad tossed each other a present. Brad viciously teared through the wrapping paper. “Fuzzy dice?”
“You know, for when you get to drive.” Tuck laughed.
Brad tossed the box at Tuck. He opened the card. “Twenty bucks.” He whispered to me, “Not bad for a twelve-year-old.”
Tuck rolled his eyes and opened up his present. “A toy car, how’d you know?”
“Tuck, I know everything about you.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“This is gonna take awhile.” I sighed.
My belly button started beeping. Mom’s screen that she uses to call me popped out. “XJ9,” She said, “Where are you?”
“What do you care? I’m just doing holiday nonsense.” I mocked her.
“Get home this instant, young lady.”
“Ugh, fine!” I sighed.
The TV screen closed.
“She never lets me do anything!” I complained.
“Calm down Jen.” Brad said.
“Yeah, it’s nothing to freak about.” Tuck told me.
“You’re right. I just need to chill out.” I said, “I’ll be back soon.” I flew away.
***
“Mom!” I walked in. “Mom!!”
“I’m in the living room.” She called.
“Listen, I gotta talk to you about-” I walked in and sitting right in the middle of the living room was the largest and most spectacularly decorated Christmas tree I had ever seen.
“Mom, this is…wow.” I stared.
“If you’re going to do this holiday thing, you’re going to do it right.” She grabbed the star out of the box. “Put this on top.”
I grabbed the star and flew to the top. I set it gently on the green pine needles.
Mom plugged it in. “Perfect. Just perfect.”
I flew down. “Mom, I thought you hated this stuff. You even inserted a chip into my head.”
“Oh, well…when I was little Christmas was the biggest family tradition. My mother’s entire side of her family would come over to our house and we’d spend the whole day together.”
“That sounds great.”
“It was, but then I got older and I realized that robotic technology was where I belonged. Now, keep in mind that most of my family had taken up animal care. My mother was a veterianarian, my father owned a kennel, my aunt breed dogs, my uncle groomed dogs and even my grandmother was a retired animal trainer.”
“What’d they say when you told them that you didn’t want to be in the animal care business?”
“They were heart broken. My mother told her whole family, and they were outraged. They thought that I needed to be reminded what the family business was. Every day after Christmas, I would always find that something I’d built had mysteriously broke.”
“What did you do?”
“I kept going. They couldn’t stop me. When I was 18, I left to go to Tremerton University, and I haven’t seen them since.”
“Didn’t you get lonely?”
“No. I built XJ1 then XJ2 then XJ3 etc. etc. until I made you.”
“So holidays are just a bad memory for you?”
“That pretty much sums it up.”
“Wow, I had no idea. Well, we’ve gotta call them.” I opened up my satelitte in my pigtail.
“What do you think you’re doing?” Mom asked me.
“If you don’t make peace with them now, you never will.” I dialed the number.
“XJ9-“
“Shh! It’s ringing.”
“Hello?” The person on the other line said.
“Hi, it’s me, Jenny.”
“Jenny who?”
“Jenny Wakeman. Mom built me, I’m a robot.”
“Is this a joke?”
“No, don’t you remember my mom, she didn’t want an animal care career and she went into robotics instead.”
“Yeah. I remember her. I’m her sister.”
“She never told me she had a sister.”
“XJ9, get off that phone-” Mom ordered.
“Shh, I’m talking.” I said, “So, are you guys having Christmas dinner tomorrow?”
“Yeah, at our brother Ryan’s house.”
“Can I have the address?”
“Sure, it’s 123 Fake street.”
“Great, I’ll see you there.”
“Ciao.”
“Ciao.” I hung up. “First thing tomorrow, we’re flying to your brother Ryan’s house for Christmas dinner.”
“You don’t know where it is.” She protested.
“I got the address, my built-in atlas will guide us.”
“We don’t have any gifts.”
“That’s why they invented last-minute-shopping.”
“There’s no way you’ll remember tomorrow.”
I rolled my eyes. “Mom, how much memory space do you think that you built me with?”
“Fine. We’ll go.”
“Yes!” I cheered.
***
“Are you ready for lift-off?” I squated down.
“You’re sure this won’t break the present.” Mom said.
“It’ll be fine mom.”
“It’s a very delicate glass vase.”
“I know mom, I picked it out.”
“But I told you to go to the pottery barn.”
“We’re going.”
“Wait! Do you think I should bring an entree?”
“No, I’m sure they have tons of food.”
“Positive?”
“Stop worrying.”
“I’m not worrying.”
I sighed and lifted off.
***
“Are you sure I look okay?” Mom asked me.
“You look great, mom.” I reassured her.
“Maybe we should just-“
“I’m gonna knock in three seconds. 3…”
“Just wait-“
“2…”
“a minute”
“1.” I knocked.
The door opened, a man resembling mom stood there.
“Elizabeth?” He asked.
“Ryan?” Mom said.
“I can’t believe it’s you. It’s been so long, we’ve all missed you so much.”
“Who’s here?!” A woman inside called.
“It’s my long-lost sister,” Ryan called back, “Elizabeth.”
The lady walked over to us. “Hello, pleasure to meet you.” She shook mom’s hand. “I’m Candi, Ryan’s wife.”
“Well Candy, it’s very nice to meet you too.” Mom answered. “This is my daughter, XJ9.”
“You can call me Jenny.” I said.
“Please, come in.” Ryan said.
We walked in. “I told you they’d like you.” I whispered.
We all had a seat in the living room.
“Are you Jenny?” a different lady stood up and shook my hand. “I talked to you last night on the phone. I’m Rebecca, your aunt.”
“It’s great to meet you.” I said.
Rebecca pointed to the two babies in the stroller. “These are my twin boys, Andrew and Alex. My husband, Max, isn’t here today. He’s on a business trip.”
A little seven-year-old girl sat in the corner. “This is my daughter, Lily.” Candi said.
“I’m so surprised to see all the children.” Mom said.
“Well, we’ve been trying to contact you for years.” Ryan said.
“You have?”
“Yeah,” Rebecca said, “Everyone’s missed you.”
“You all have?” Mom asked.
“Sure, you don’t think we’d turn our backs on you just because you liked robotics instead of animal care, did you?” Ryan asked.
“Well, that’s what it looked like.” Mom admitted.
“No, we just needed to realize that you could pick what you wanted to be. Heck, I didn’t go into animal care, and Ryan developed an allergy to cats and dogs.” Rebecca said.
“Really?”
“Yeah, I went into accounting.” Rebecca said.
“And I’m a doctor, for people.” Ryan told us.
“And mom didn’t mind?”
“No, of course not. She decided that after losing her oldest child to the family tradition, we could do what we wanted.” Rebecca told mom.
“I can’t believe I missed all this.” Mom said.
“Don’t worry, we’ll fill you both in.” Rebecca told us.
Mom patted my hand and mouthed ‘thank you’.
I just winked. It was my first Christmas, and I wasn’t going to say I told you so.
“Merry Christmas.” Mom said, “Merry Christmas.”
***
The End
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Okay, I promised I would up this chap before 2004, and it’s December 31st so I kept my promise. What’re you lookin’ at?