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A cool breeze touches the tip of Sumo's nose, so it wasn't so hot for him to sleep in the living room today. The moderate wind speed the leaves and branches of the trees which created a soft rustle against each other. The noise of privately owned cars and autonomous vehicles were heard. No temperature overheating for humans and androids and no dampness for everyone.
Nines woke up from short stasis before Connor did. Reflexively for a split second Nines scanned the room he had been in for a few hours now. The only movement from Nines is his head turned toward Connor. Connor's LED slowly spun around. The noise of his fans was quietly methodical. Though Connor slept on his back, his face was turned toward Nines. The sun's glare fell on right shoulder with a mole and on Connor's ear. It's a good thing Connor decided to “fall asleep” with his head turned toward Nines because Nines could watch the sunrise on Connor. Connor was covered with a soft blanket and had some kind of black clothing over his shoulders.
Wait.
|||||| Item: black clothing ||||||
|||||| Type of clothing: shirt ||||||
|||||| Manufactured for models: RK900 ||||||
|||||| Made by CyberLife ||||||
Why is he wearing that shirt? When did he change? It doesn't make sense.
Nines won't hear the answer for a while yet. Connor's established hours in stasis are not yet complete. So now he's going to run diagnostics on the system.
After a while the LED makes a noise and starts blinking. Nines moved a strand of Connor's hair away from his forehead so that when he woke up his eyes wouldn't be interfered with by anything. He slowly opens his eyes, adjusting the quality of his vision, focusing on Nines's face. Connor along with Nines spoke at the same time, so good morning wishes from Connor merged with a question from Nines. Connor turned his head and looked across the ceiling.
“What?” Connor asked with a slight smile and with his eyes closed he flexed his left hand and placed the outside of his palms on his forehead.
“Why are you wearing my clothes?”
Connor slept in Nines's shirt tonight.
Android had a strong deviant emotion about it. When did he have time to do that? If look at the records, they lay down and went into stasis almost simultaneously with a 10 second time error because Nines needed to make sure Connor was okay so he could follow him into standby mode. While he pondered his answer Nines adjusted his shirt on Connor to cover Connor's bare shoulder.
It's actually simple. The notification of the uneven neck posture caused Connor to have to interrupt his stasis deep into the night. And before going to sleep Connor decided to grab Nines's shirt from the chair.
The prank was successful.
Connor turned over, lay on his belly and placed the left elbow of his hand on a pillow, propping his cheek up with the hand. The body pressure made the pillow rustle pleasantly. The bright sunlight made Connor squint. And from such an innocent question Connor continued to smile.
"You're worried about that."
Nines searched his system to identify the enabled worry/irritation feature due to the confiscation of his clothing in the software. He didn't find anything. Request denied. Nines spent in the system on identifying the enabled function on any annoyance. Nines spent time in the system identifying which function was enabled for any annoyance. Total search time took 5 seconds.
“We had laundry day yesterday. Your clothes are clean as mine. I'm worried about why you took my clothes instead of your own.”
Connor raised himself up on two elbows craning his neck to look out the window at the morning road. Then he looked at Nines and shrugged.
“Because I want it.”
Nines's face didn't change. The emotion program did not run after stasis to produce excite, happy, or any other emotion? Well not actually, android was working properly he just didn't know how to react to the other android's words.
After these statements and Connor's desires Nines wanted more and more to cuddle up to Connor and be with him always. The way he pondered and all his actions mesmerized Nines. And the way Connor tried to imitate people. Or Connor's always been like this from the beginning. Nines pulled himself up closed his eyes and kissed Connor. After that Nines turned Connor over onto his back and hung over him.
“Heeey,” Connor took a little squeeze of Nines's cheeks with both hands and kissed him back. “You forgot to tell me good morning.”
“Good morning.” Nines's speech was slurred because of Connor's hands on his face.
***
Nines went down to the basement. The stairs creaked underfoot, making it impossible to hide a stranger in this place. There was dust in the air and a chemical composition of material that even through closed boxes seeped through and irritated the lungs of people and animals.
Nines looked around and saw Connor distributing a stack of clothes according to material composition and following the garment's care instructions to preserve the quality and durability of the fabric. Nines heads toward Connor passing the mirror in which he is reflected.
“Oh Nines that was surprising.” Connor said emphasizing the last word in the sentence. “It wasn't on my list that I should prepare for you to come down and join me.”
Connor caught the falling down pants from his hips that don't belong to him. Nines followed his movements.
|||||| Item: black clothing ||||||
|||||| Type of clothing: pants ||||||
|||||| Manufactured for models: RK900 ||||||
|||||| Made by CyberLife ||||||
“Are you not going to change your clothes?” Nines slipped his finger through the belt loops of his pants where the belt passes through and pulled it down. Connor grabbed Nines's arm, pulled up it and let him go.
“No I didn't think about it. Or do you want me to give you your pants back?” Nines looked at Connor from top to bottom. The small bulb couldn't illuminate the entire basement so shadows lay across Nines's face.
“No I have a few more pants.” Nines pulled his finger out and brushed the dust from Connor's clothes that had accumulated into a small ball.
Connor laughed but when Nines continued to stand silently he grinned.
“Why are you shocked by this? Lots of people do it and androids too.” Connor put the clothes in the laundry machine.
“Yes, I know. But why are you doing this?”
“Well, maybe I want to belong to you?” Connor distributed another type of clothes to be washed.
***
Android was twirling a videotape in his hands. Nines and Connor will be watching a movie tonight. But in a quite old-fashioned way but Connor wants it so Nines's okay with that.
The rainy weather and strong winds caused tree branches are knocking on the windows. That means Connor will be snuggling up to Nines tonight. Software instability has increased. Nines was brought out of his thoughts by Connor, who came up behind him and touched Nines's hands.
“Let me play a movie. You'll break it now.” Connor kissed Nines. Nines nodded and went to dim the lights in the living room.
They were going to watch the movie but Connor got up abruptly from the couch.
“Wait a minute. I have an idea.” Connor ran into their bedroom.
Android paused the movie. Nines doesn't want to see the movie without Connor. Connor returned with a jacket consisting of basically two colors white and black. The word Android was written on the back of the jacket.
Ahead of Nines's question he pressed himself against him and said.
“I just thought it was the perfect moment because I've often seen people cover themselves with a blanket or jacket at times like this and I wanted to do the same.”
“Are you cold?” Nines touched Connor's knees.
“A little bit.”
Nines pulled Connor tighter against him.
***
The sun's rays smoothly outlined the figure of the green kitchen set. Connor held up Geruskell package to pour treats for Sumo into the blue bowl. Sumo was already wagging his tail contentedly waiting for his dinner. Connor couldn't help himself and stroked Sumo's head. The hair on Sumo's back was a hard to the touch but his ears were soft. Drops of water after the rain fell from the leaves of the trees onto the grass.
“Why this belt?”
Connor jumped up and started turning around looking for a noise. There was no one inside the house except Sumo and Android. Connor found Nines on the other side of the same window that Connor had once broken.
“Well,” Connor put Geruskell on the shelf with the rest of Sumo's food and turned to Nines. “It's like a small and inconspicuous detail. Only someone so meticulous in the minutiae and details as you would notice it.”
Connor bit his lip holding back from laughing closed the window and shut the blind.
Nines continued to stand at the window.
***
The sound of water was the main noise in the kitchen and the clinking of plates against each other echoed.
On the dishwashing sponge, the soap bubbles made a crackling sound when Connor pressed harder on the stain in the plate.
Nines came up behind him and climbed in with his hands under Connor's shirt touching the last buttons on his shirt with Nines's fingers. Nines began stroking Connor's faint abs. The clinking of plates stopped.
Connor felt a pleasant tingling sensation where Nines was making smooth movements with his hand.
A red blush of embarrassment showed on Connor's neck, ears, and cheeks. An artificial shiver ran through Connor's body. Nines put his chin on Connor's shoulder and stared blankly at the way Connor's face was changing because of their interaction between them. Nines touched with his nose the corners of Connor's lips and ran his nose slightly upward to kiss Connor's jaw.
“Which of my borrowed clothes did you wear today?”
“Oh clothes? Yeah right... Um socks?” Connor laughed nervously. “Today it's socks yes ahah”
***
Connor finally has a new issue of Tech Addict. The colorful cover and intriguing title provided an opportunity to discuss it over a late-night gathering. But a large shadow appeared over Connor and his new magazine. Great they can read the magazine together. Connor moved over to make space for Nines but the other android was still just standing there.
Okay the magazine is on hold.
“When are you going to put on some shoes?”
“What?”
“When are you going to put on my shoes?”
Connor checked the reminder of when it was time to go grocery shopping.
“I don't see the point of putting them on today and I don't see the point of putting them on tomorrow either but if you want we can go grocery shopping right now.”
Nines nodded and stood near the door crossing his arms behind his back.
Connor grinned with his eyes closed and stood up from the couch.
Connor fixed his hair near the larger mirror before going outside.
“Do you like what you see?”
“I don't know something happens inside me when I see you in my stuff. It shows who you belong to and I think...I like it.” Nines said.
***
“Did you take my underwear?”
“I don't see anything wrong with that. We're androids we can't get sick from it. Anyways I trust you.” Connor winked.
Nines ran a finger over the naked skin near Connor's navel and pushed down the elastic band of his boxers pulling it back on himself forcing Connor to take a step towards him. Connor laughed and lowered his voice a little wrapping his arms around Nines's neck.
“I can show you what's under that underwear.”
“I'll see for myself.”