‘I can remember our life together before the robot came.’ ‘Of course you do. You have been programmed to be a clone, you know everything she kno...s. We downloaded it into your memory banks.’ ‘I don’t have memory banks. I am a human being!’ Ellie clenched her fists, her arms straight by her sides. She could feel the blood pulsing in the veins of her neck. A robot doesn’t have veins in its neck, she is not a robot. Zak was nonplussed. What could he say? He felt truly sorry for the upset he had. His parents had encouraged him as a young child to take up music and by the time he entered high school he was adept at playing multiple instruments. For his 9th grade service project he offered to teach the poor kids to play an instrument. Three days a week he would take a poor kid home with him and tutor them. In this manner he had his first sample of exotic females – something other than the white middle class he babysat for. The variety was well received by his customers as well. His first. Julie joined me a few moments later looking a bit flushed, I asked if she was ok and she nodded she was and drank her coffee, after a while we left and went back to the hotel, that evening we chatted for a while until Kerry and Dennis returned, we all went back to my room for a few drinks and a bit of fun, Julie came on to Dennis straight away telling him what had happened today at the bridge Dennis said “ if you’re trying to turn me on it’s working Julie” standing up unzipping his trousers to. It was a nice comfortable motel but sleep was far from my eyes. I just kept crying thinking about how stupid I had been. While I was not very enthusiastic about Jenny cheating on Jason, I had gone along after Jenny convinced me that she was still in love with Jason and was doing it just for a little thrill. The rationale did not go well with me but I strung along because I would not dare to let Jenny meet Simon at a motel where the chances of her getting caught and hurting Jason were more.I.