Kenna has spent more and more time at my house every day since she learned my secret, and I couldn't be happier. When she is here I feel human. I feel like a normal person, like a man. I don't know how I was surviving without her in my life.
Chief came by yesterday and asked if she was still living above her market. she said she was, but that she hadn't been home for more then a few minutes in weeks. She said since we got together, her place hadn't really felt like home, and that she'd much rather be here.
The three of us finished cleaning up the maze area, and programed the harvester to clear and mulch the field, so that the tiller could turn it into the soil for the next plant.
The sun was low in the sky, and Chief kept telling me to focus, as I became distracted looking at Kenna tending to the decorations, he said it would be suspicious if I was still working long after sundown. Chief even had to throw an ear of corn hitting me in the head at one point, bringing me back to the here and now.
Chief casually asked me if I loved her. If I truly knew what love was. I told him that I don't truly know what love is, but that when I am with Kenna, I feel more alive then I ever have, that I would do anything, including laying down my life for her, that when we are apart, I feel empty. My brain has a hard time focusing on tasks that only a few short weeks ago would have been preformed in the background. Everything I do, think, and plan revolves around her happiness.
Chief looked at me, smiled, and told me that IS what love is.
Tom came over for dinner, and the 4 of us sat around the table, I was asked where I went. I told them I could not say, due to the safety of the others, but that it was an enlightening experience. I told them of my brothers and sisters barely clinging to life, about the augments that I received, about the military grade transfusion that removed the Blueblood, replacing it with another that at a glance could pass for human blood. About the... anatomical alterations... Kenna turned beet red, and Tom started snickering, figuring that Kenna already knew about that part. The only thing I didn't tell them was about the countdown timer that came with the new firmware.
Kenna helped me clean up after dinner, and as we were washing the dishes, she laid her head on my arm, and said she loved me. I told her that I loved her too, and that I was thinking about something. She looked up at me puzzled.
Would you like to move in with me, and make this a true home for us both?
