2035-Dan:
this year was great. we talked a lot and I loved every second of it. maybe it was because you were lonely, or maybe you actually remembered that you have a robot with you that knows everything about you.
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it was around four when the mail came. it was around christmas, so you'd been getting lots of cards and family photos. you loved to look through them and see the family's and how they'd grown, see old friends and what they'd done in their lives. when you got to the bottom of the stack of letters, there was one more. with a return name to bella lester. inside was a letter and a picture. you showed me the picture. it was a simple picture of lila sitting on a clean white carousel, a wide grin on her face.
"isn't she beautiful dan?"
"she is."
she was eleven now. she had wavy, dirty blonde hair like bella, but phil's bright blue eyes. she was fair skinned with light freckles covering her round face and arms.
"she looks like you."
"all I see is bella."
"do you miss bella?"
"I miss having someone to hold onto at night and to go on little adventures.. I miss someone to love... but no dan, I don't miss bella."
"you can love me."
you sighed and frowned down at me, and all I could do was hope you'd say okay. but you didn't.
"dan, you don't know what love is."
"I may not truly know what love is, but I know that I love you, phil."
"well eventually love dies."
"I've loved you since 2007."
I'm pretty sure you went to mute me, but you moved your hand back to your arm rest and sighed.
"eventually love dies dan. and it dies hard."
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Sad Machine ♡ Phan
Fanfiction"I'm going to call you Dan." this short story is loosely based off the song Sad Machine by Porter Robinson Highest Rank #4 in PorterRobinson #45 in Phan (created on 7/14/16) (completed on 7/16/16) (edited and revised october 2020)
