| A Robotic Love | Story Format | an Ennard x Michael story |

Bonding ~1~

Michael's Pov

*yawn*

I opened my eyes, slowly gaining consciousness, at first I was confused, 'where am I?..' I thought to myself after seeing a pitch black room. I then remembered what happened just earlier, then I realize another thing... what is beside me?... I was leaning against something, it definitely wasn't the wall, something moved me. When I moved to get up I realized something other than my coat was around me. It was thin and long and it wrapped around my legs so I couldn't move... 'wait I've felt this thing around my body before... isn't it Ennard's wires?'

"Ennard?.." I spoke, tilting my head up slowly. "Yes Michael?" Ennard responded, confirming my suspicion. I then saw one singular blue eye staring back down at me, it was glowing slightly so I could see Ennard's expression. Of course it was his normal icy stare, though I wonder why he come to be like this with me. "Did you sleep well?" Ennard said. I processed his question and became surprised, "Uhm yeah.. I did actually, who would of thought cuddling with a giant metal robot would be comfortable?" I said with a laugh at the end. "Cuddling?.. what is that?" Ennard's face softened into a curious face. "Ah, you don't know stuff like that do you?.." I said slowly. "No, what is it?" He asked again. 'Where do I start?'

"Uhm well, it's a form of affection, it's like a hug but your sitting or laying down while doing it, kinda like how we are now" Ennard looked up and studied our position for a moment. He then tightened his hold onto me. "Do you like it?.." I asked looking down, hiding my face.

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"I don't know Michael, I'm confused and it's driving me insane because of that." Ennard said softly. I look back up and he had that same confused and disappointed face he had earlier.  He closed his eyes and took his hand from holding me to clutch his head, it's like his mind was fighting with itself... I turned myself and struggled to get into a sitting position before reaching for his hand on his head, "that's okay... just focus on what this makes you feel now, you can take your time" I said gently, smiling while pulling his hand away.

Ennard's Pov

'What this makes me feel now?..' I thought about it for a minute, my frazzled mind finally settled down a bit. I finally came up with the answer, "this makes me feel relaxed... and calm..."' should I add the fuzzy feeling as well?' "Okay then that means you like it" Michael said still smiling.

"Oh"

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"You said there were other forms of affection.. what are they?" I asked. "Oh yeah, but um first could you.. untangle your wires from me?.." Michael said with an awkward smile, gesturing to my wires. I slowly unraveled my wires, though pulled Michael to lay on me with his back against my chest. "Haha, you like this very much, don't you? And you said you hated hugs." Michael said trying to tease me. "Hm yes I do, and it's to late for you to back out now" I said, hugging Michael closer. I felt him become stiff, as if he became embarrassed. "Ahem.. before I tell you anything else, do you know what affection is?" Michael said becoming less tense. "No, this is the first time I've heard of this" I responded. "Yeah... that makes sense." Michael said leaning his head back on my chest, finally relaxing. I got a weird feeling from that. "Well affection is like a sort of liking towards the other person, you care for them. Though this is different between family, friends and lovers." Michael explained. "I know what friends are...but what's a family, a lovers?" Michael laughed, "it's not a lovers, it's just lover. Lovers are two people that have an attraction to each other, it's like a bond only they can feel between them." Michael continued, "a family is usually a group of people who are related to each other. I don't like this example, but it's like me and my father... we're technically family..." he said, talking softer towards the end.

"I'm nothing like my father, I will never be like him!"

I tilted my head to the side before I asked, "You don't like your father, right?" Michael grabbed my hand and examined it, "mhm" was the only response I got to my question. It was weird having him so close to me, especially when he's the son of the person I hate the most. It was even more weird though when he held my hand, I've never had someone so close to touch me like this. I think I like it...

"Ah uhm, sorry I grabbed your hand all of a sudden like that..! I got curious earlier and..." Michael said suddenly, dropping my hand quickly. I then grabbed his, "it's fine, continue" I said reassuring him. He then slowly went to grab my hand and continued to fiddle with it, tracing over the wires on my hand. "To continue what I was saying earlier..." Michael started, "Family isn't always your relatives, it can just be a person you can always rely on for support, that's what makes family, family" Michael said. "Do you have any family?" I asked.

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"No.. I don't have anyone other than my dad... my mom died when my brother was still a baby and my sister... she died from one of my father's creations..." "And your brother?" Michael squeezed my hand, "I don't want to talk about it." He said seriously. "Do you have other human friends?" I asked after a moment. "Nope just a cuddly robot" Michael said in his normal voice, he then turned on the flashlight with his free hand. It went quiet again after that. "..What about a lov-" "NOPE!" Michael yelled out loud before I even finished my sentence. He was fidgeting with my hand more and his shoulders were shrugged up after that. I leaned over to look at his face and said, "are you embarrassed?" Michael leaned back from my face blushing with wide eyes, letting go of my hand again. "That's a question you don't normally ask someone..." Michael mumbled, looking to the side away from my gaze. "Besides who would like me?" Michael said, burying his head into his hands. "I do Michael"

AN: hello everyone.. sorry for not posting for a bit, I got demotivated towards writing after trying to draw this scene. I have no idea why but I couldn't properly draw out what I had in my imagination for this scene. So no drawing this chapter unfortunately, maybe next chapter since I won't be posting both parts at the same time like I originally planned. I wanted to leave you guys on a cliff hanger because I'm evil still :D

Another thing to mention, for things to line up properly with the idea I have in the chapter after the next one, I will have to rewrite my old chapters that I wrote a year ago to better explain things so you all understand. So I might unpublish them or just write on an entirely different page and edit it from there, who knows. This is just a heads up because you guys might see a lot of notifications about me editing chapters if you have notifications on.

Also I will have more time to do this because I'm officially on summer vacation! I always planned to go back and rewrite those chapters so now I have some  extra time and a chance to :)

Well that is all I have to say, thank you for reading and goodbye for now my readers :)

Original finished date 5/15/23

Date posted 6/9/23