" You liked her?" Oh yes. We talked for a long time. You know, she invited me to come withher while she serviced her customer." She did?" I would have...taken her up on it but I was committed to staying with you.You were pretty doped up and I would never have forgiven myself ifsomething had happened to you while I was gone. I did tell her I'd take arain check." You'd go with her?" Sure, I think it sounded sexy. I'd love to see her work. You know, shetold me that she has a big one and it's fully. I built her myself," I placed my artificial cat gently on the table."Wow, she's so shiny! What do the lights mean?" I'm not sure. She makes them up herself. She has her own neural network and self configuring hardware, so she does what she wants." So, is she alive then?" Well, depends what you mean. She can react to her environment, and can certainly seem alive. But then it's surprisingly easy to make something seem alive just with a small amount of programming. You can make simple facsimiles. "Well that is just so cute; I knew you would love it. It's going to lookso good on you," Mom said giggling."Oh my god, you are going to be the prettiest little fairy on the block,"my brother laughed."Don't be too hard on the sissy," Dad said.I wanted to cry, I was so humiliated and ashamed. I wanted to crawl intoa hole and never come out."Well show us your new panties too, I mean I bought them I know they arein there Ellen. Don't be so shy, we all want to see your new things,"Mom saidI held. My anger turned my face red as I had watched Sally take Charles’ cock, she seemed to really revel in watching the tied helpless man she had taunted and taken for thousands of dollars…sure they weren’t mine, but did that really matter, it wasn’t like my own investments couldn’t repay the money to the old fart, there was just no way to get to it from aboard ship. She may now think the way Charles talked that it was all his and that just pissed me off even more…it was my mother that had left.