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

Bonding ~2~

"I do Michael"

Michael's Pov

I lifted my head slowly to see a clueless Ennard, he obviously didn't know what he just said and how it impacted me. I just might gain feelings over a robot who feels feelings!

"U-uh.. E-E-Ennard..." I said trying to explain, but soon after, heard my own shock from Ennard's simple sentence. I put my head down and shifted away to calm myself down. "Michael? What's wrong? Your face is red" Ennard said grabbing the upper side of my arm. "It's nothing E-Ennard, your cluelessness is just something else.." "what is it?" I finally look up to see a slightly concerned Ennard, 'Wow is he that worried? Have we bonded that much this night?' "No Ennard, I'm fine, really" I said smiling. He let go of my arm, "okay, but what happened? Why did you sound like that?" Ennard questioned. "You startled me is all Ennard... it's like I said before, you don't normally ask someone that.." I explained to Ennard, continuing after a slight pause, "You must mean like as in friends, I was talking about like as in lovers. So what you said caught me off guard for a second..." I said, looking away at the end.

"What is the difference?" Ennard questioned. "Ah uhm... like as in friends is usually the enjoyment of talking with them and hanging out... like as in lovers..." I trailed off. There was a slight pause before I continued, "how should I explain this, I'm not sure if you will understand... like or love in lovers is when you want to be with them all the time and you do certain things you don't do with others" I explained, hoping he would understand. "What things?" He questioned again. "Your so curious Ennard, why do you want to know?" I asked avoiding the question. 'I don't think I should explain that much to him'. Ennard leaned back against the wall again. "I just want to know what humans do... I won't ever experience it anyway" he said. "I always wanted to know what they do and how their life is different from mine" he said looking to the side.

"They can go anywhere they want, they don't have to be trapped in a place they feel they don't belong..." he said trailing off, seeming to space out again.

"..."

It went quiet after that, I don't know how to help him.

"..."

*spshhh*

"Oh, it's raining.." I said avoiding what happened just earlier. "Is that what that sound is called?" Ennard questioned looking back at me. "Ah, not quite Ennard" I said smiling at his cluelessness once more. I went to lean my back on the wall before continuing, "rain is when the water forming in the sky finally becomes heavy enough to fall in a form of little drops of water" I said. "That sound is rain but other things can create that sound." "Huh" Ennard said. He then shifted to sit next to me against the wall.

"..."

"It's calming isn't it?" I asked "I suppose so" Ennard replied.

...

We then sat there in silence and in deep thought, eventually the lights came back on, though we continued to listen for a little longer. I eventually break the silence, "It's time for me to leave now Ennard" I began to turn my head to look at Ennard, though stopped right as I started. That's when I realized he was leaning against me, his head resting against the top of mine. It was funny how I didn't realize this heavy robot on me. 'Is he powered off? Or should I say sleeping..?' I thought to myself. "Haha" I laugh to myself, "great I'm stuck again" I reach for my phone to see if it was even alive anymore, to my surprise it was. I checked the time and realized it was way past my shift now. I put my phone down after checking it was around 8:30 in the morning. The morning crew was definitely here on shift by now, no wonder the lights were on again finally. I then think to myself, 'I wonder what happened to the other animatronics...' that's when I was suddenly snapped out of my thoughts.