Sunflower

Prologue

    I never thought about death much; well, how I would die. I'd hope to die in the arms of a loved one, to see them one last time before darkness settled in. I was never a religious person, so to speak, I question if there was anything to an afterlife. Reincarnation? Just darkness? Or the light or dark of hell or heaven.

    Souls being able to transfer into other bodies would be interesting. If that were the case, would it be possible for an android to have a human soul? It would explain the androids going deviant; or them developing personalities and interests to make them more unique and different to one another even though they might be the same model.

    When I saw...him walk into the station, I had a moment of deja vu. For a moment, I thought that it was someone else. That hope was soon crushed when I saw the ANDROID logo on his Cyberlife jacket. Connor was its name, the RK800, a prototype.

    He glanced over at the breakroom, where I, Gavin, and Tina were. My heart skipped a beat, his eyes were the most pretty brown I've ever seen. My throat dried up, even though I had just taken a drink of my Monster.

    It was like the whole room disappeared; it was looking back at me. Was that confusion? There was no possible way, androids don't have emotion–which was what I believed at the time–everything seemed much lighter. Like it was everything that had been weighing on my shoulder had finally disappeared from existence. No worry, doubts, or fear, its gaze never averted from mine.

    It seemed as if the android was afraid to look away from me, surprisingly, it felt comforting. To know that whatever I was feeling, the android didn't seem uncomfortable by my staring. If he was a normal person, he would've probably looked away and thought that I was crazy.

    A pair of fingers snapped in front of my face, I jerked, the hand belonged to Tina Chen. One of my friends that I had met right after college. " Jesus, Lane we've been trying to get your attention for an hour now," Gavin Reed complained.

    " I wasn't staring for that long. If I was you two would have resorted to shaking me," I fired back. Knowing full well that they would, patience wasn't Gavin's or Tina's strong suit.

    " What were you staring at anyway?" Tina asked, an eyebrow raised.

    " Nothing, I was just thinking." The two looked at each other for a moment, before turning back to me with an Uh-Huh look.