Malware & Broken Memories

Mostly Innocent Lies

Of course, this was a great time for him to power on again, though this time mostly involuntarily. He was honestly lucky it had been now, and not any sooner, otherwise things may not have turned out so well. He blinked awake, the Meeple start-up sound fading from his ears as he sat up, confused. TestTube stared at him cautiously, not having been able to check what memory had recovered itself last before his body had booted up. She watched as he blinked slowly, looking down at his hands, then around at the room, jolting a bit as he realized someone else was in here with him. His eyes widened, not in fear, as he just stared at her. He remained quiet though.

"MePhone?" TestTube asked cautiously. She watched him glance around again, before pointing at himself, tilting his head as if he were confused. TestTube would just nod;

"Yes, that's you. What... Do you last remember?"

"..." MePhone opened his mouth to speak, before closing it with a frown, glancing away.

"Where..?" He got out, despite wanting to ask a million different things. This was very inconvenient.

"Well, you're... Not up in Meeple right now, so you don't have to worry about that, I promise."

"M... Meeple?" MePhone looked at her again, confused.

"Oh... Okay, nevermind then! Don't worry about it." TestTube nervously let out. He didn't seem to remember ANYTHING right now, which was concerning.

"What am I doing... here?" He glanced around the room, not seeming to understand.

"You're... erhm..." TestTube blanked on a reply. She just ended up standing in place, letting out an awkward, nervous chuckle that trailed off into silence as she looked away.

MePhone wanted to leave... But he didn't really know where else to go. He didn't like being in a room with this weird awkward person. He frowned, moving to get up.

"Woah, woah wait stay where you are--"

"Wh... no? I want to go. I don't like this room. It's weird. You're weird." MePhone furrowed his eyebrows a bit, growing annoyed.

"You uh-- you can't go yet!" As much as TestTube didn't want to have to MAKE him stay, she couldn't let him just go while his systems were still repairing themselves. It could go wrong in so many different ways. She honestly doesn't even know how he powered on this time, it just happened.

"Why not." He just looked plain annoyed now, staring up at her from where he sat.

"Uh-- um, okay, well--" She glanced away again, incredibly nervous still. She had never been good at lying.

"We're... Still setting up the party!" She blurted out.

"A... Party?" He tilted his head, his annoyance shifting to confusion.

"Yeah! It was... Supposed to be a secret, but... Uhm... Yeah, I was supposed to wake you up when it was ready-- but- but uh, you kinda woke up on your own," TestTube stumbled over her words, hoping the shakiness in her tone wasn't too evident. This was a lot of stress being put onto her when she hadn't slept properly in the past three days. She just hoped this would work.

"Can I see?" MePhone perked up a bit, his posture seeming more excited at the idea of a party.

"N- NO! I- I mean, no, it's... Still being set up! If they know I ruined the surprise they're... Gonna not be happy with me! Yeah!"

"Oh, okay... I don't want anyone getting angry at... Um... You?" He trailed off, really thinking about it. "Actually, uhm... Stupid question, who are you?"