Project A.I.S.E.E. (Discontinued)

Prologue

His full name is Project A.I.S.E.E. 001. Nobody bothers with any of that though. He just goes by Aisee, it's easier that way. It also makes it easier to blend in with people. After all, people aren't supposed to know what he really is.

Aisee is strictly confidential, government-deployed project called Project Artificial Intelligence Social and Emotional Experiment 001, hence the name A.I.S.E.E. He is a robot, an extremely advanced robot. The government entrusted a man named Doctor Marcel Fandriago and his team of scientists with the task of building, programming, running, and teaching him and then having him go out into the world and blend in as well as possible. They assigned him to a volunteer family to live with consisting of only a mother and father. His mother's name is Hannah Diane Karskop and my father's name is Marcus Finn Karskop. He has lived with them for ten of the twelve years he has been up and running.

Hannah loved the idea of having a robot for a son at first, but when she found out that they would not be raising him as a young child, only as a fifteen year old, she didn't so much like it anymore. She was especially upset when she learned that there was an error in the coding and programming of Aisee, making him attracted to boys rather than girls. By the time they found out he was gay, it was too late to re-program him, if they did it would require them to erase everything they had already taught him and start over.

Marcus, on the other hand, was always very happy to have Aisee around. Where Hannah thought he was just a waste of time since he doesn't even age, Marc found that he liked the idea of keeping Aisee around. He loved teaching Aisee how to build things like birdhouses and such. He loved teaching him how to play sports like football and baseball. Marc loved Aisee, and loved watching how much better he got at blending in over time. He loved Aisee with all of his being. 

Aisee loved his dad, and he wanted his mom to love him the same way his father did, but he knew that wouldn't happen. He learned to live with her though. He grew indifferent towards her. As for school, Aisee loved it. He found it very interesting. Although he could just look up the meaning of anything he wanted in his head, he still loved seeing how different teachers taught and how other kids interacted with each other. Aisee had been to 9 different schools, and was going to another one this year. He could only go to schools for one year, Sophomore year, since he didn't age. He was fifteen, and would stay fifteen, and you don't typically have fifteen-year-olds as Seniors in high school. 

The first few years were a bit rough. Aisee was still knew to everything. He hadn't had much human interaction, and people found him strange and quirky. He also had a lot of bugs in the beginning that would make him act strangely. He was always picked on in school for the first few years, but he eventually learned what humans are like and what gets you picked on in school and improved. In his last couple of schools he made a few acquaintances, although he never made any friends. He wasn't allowed to. If he made friends then they would eventually find out the truth about him. 

The problem with something like Aisee though, is that he has emotions, and that means crushes. Aisee had had many crushes in the nine years of high school, and in the past couple of years he did have a few boyfriends. He'd had 4 to be exact. They all ended up breaking up with him after a few months, and they were all at least a little hard for him, but his most recent boyfriend was the hardest. He had been with him for six months, where his other relationships were around two or three. None were very long relationships, no, but for some high-schoolers, six months can be quite the accomplishment. His name was Lance, and Aisee loved him like no other. It was practically an obsession. They spent as much time together as physically possible, went on quite a few dates together, and truly loved each other for the time they were together. But eventually, Lance got bored of Aisee. He became uninterested in him, but he wasn't mean about it. He told Aisee about his change in feelings the second he noticed them. He didn't want to lie to Aisee and hurt him, because he did still care about him, so he ended the relationship when he noticed it wasn't the same anymore, in person, in the nicest way he could. 

Aisee appreciated that, as his past boyfriends had always done it over text, and one was particularly brutal about it, but it was still painful for him. Aisee had been so in love with Lance, and he wanted so badly for their relationship to last a long time, despite the warnings he received from the scientists and government, but it just didn't work out. After the break-up, Aisee refused to leave his room for about a week before the scientists forced him to come back to the lab for routine tests. Aisee always dreaded them, especially when he knew he had done something bad. 

But anyway, it took Aisee a full three months to get over the break up, and even then he was still upset deep down, but he pushed it away. The scientists saw it though. They saw everything. At the lab they had many huge screens set up. One of them had a diagram of Aisee's body. If he got hurt, the injured area would glow red, if he was happy, his head would glow yellow, if he felt loved or in love, his chest would glow pink, if he was angry, his head would glow black, and so on. So for those months that he was upset, his chest constantly glowed blue. The glow was stronger for the fist few months, but it slowly got lighter and lighter until it eventually disappeared. They could also see when he was crying or when he had sprung a leak because when he was crying, a blue drop appeared by his head, and when he was leaking a red drop would appear next to wherever it was.

The scientists saw everything that happened to Aisee on that screen, and on the others there was data and reports and such. Then there were some others right in the middle that they used for the cameras. There were multiple cameras in Aisee. There was one in each of his pupils, one in the back of his throat, one in his belly button, and multiple in various artificial organs and such so they could monitor what was happening inside him, and make sure everything was working and looking correct.

There was a bug that they could never fix with Aisee though. No matter how much they monitored him, no matter how much they tried to fix it, no matter what they did, they could never find the source of it. The bug was that if Aisee got too emotional, whether it be sad, happy, excited, or any emotion, his voice box would freak out and his heart or lungs would lock up momentarily. In order to fix it he would have to reboot himself or have his parents or the scientists reboot him. They didn't know why it happened, or why they couldn't fix it without completely rebuilding him, which would be extremely dangers because it could result in the loss of every bit of memory he had. If they lost that, then they would have to completely restart all twelve years of the work they had done, and nobody wanted to do that over this small bug, so they just left it. 

Aisee would be going to a different school this year. His family was moving closer to the lab so it would be more convenient, and that was in Fremont, Wyoming. He would be going to Riverton High School this year, and Aisee was excited to see what it would be like and to get away from his previous school, and away from the thought of Lance. He couldn't wait to meet new people and learn even more. And this year, he was determined to make friends, whether the scientists wanted him to or not, he just wanted one friend, and he would get that no matter what. After all, he hadn't been learning how to blend in so well just to be an outcast. He was going to do what he wanted this year. He was going to try to live.