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Seventy [Kavi]

Every day, Avriel Kaplan would walk exactly seventy steps from the control room to the grand door to welcome his mistress home.

One, two, three, up to seventy, and his lovely mistress will appear when the chauffeur opens the car's door. Even though he could totally open every door from the control room, it was still a pleasure to see his mistress by himself. Although he was a machine, an A.I in the look-like-human body that mistress made for him, he could feel something like... happiness.

Seventy were also the number of steps from his room to her room, and from her room to the dining room. He counted, every time he walked, and the reward was the cheerful smile of mistress when he rambled that information to her.

But that was a story of a week ago, not now.

At the very moment, Avi closed the newspaper calmly, tried not to crumb it or tear it in pieces. He glanced at the title one more time before put it aside.

BREAKING NEWS: IS BILLIONAIRE KIRSTIN MALDONADO IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ACTRESS SELENE ROTHSCHILD?

"There are, such heated photos of our mistress, Mitchell.", the A.I mindlessly said to mistress' valet, who brought him the newspaper. Avi pushed a button to open the main door as Kirstie's car slowly drove in with Kevin the chauffeur at the driver seat. And he stood up, smiled at Mitch. "I need to go to my room for charging battery, my shift is done anyway. Mind helping me call Matt for the next shift, Grassi?"

"Of course, Avi, no problem.", the brunette boy grinned, flattened his collar. "I'll call him on my way down greeting Kirstie. Wanna come with me?"

Frowned his eyebrows, the bearded man shrug. "No, I think I'll stay behind. I'm gonna collapse in 15 mins, so... bye Mitch!"

And he walked away quickly, didn't look back at his friend's confused eyes.

-

Avi laid in his room alone, his eye wandered around nowhere. This human body was too annoying, he couldn't disappear or have an untouchable form anymore, even though his mind was still connected with all kinds of information on Earth. He closed his eyes, tried to get access to some websites to distract himself, but every top news is all about the scandalous relationship he was trying to avoid.

"You are an A.I, you are not supposed to have feelings, idiot!", he thought to himself angrily, opened his eyes again. The cool air from the window didn't bother him, since he wasn't a human by all means.

Knock knock.

"Avi--", a blond head popped into his room with a wide grin. Scott. "Oh, wow, you... uh... you may want to put your shirt on, handsome. Mistress is waiting for you in the dining room."

A gentle smile appeared on Avi's lips as he nodded. "Thanks, Mister. Is she having her dinner right now? Do I have to wait until she finishes it?"

"No, she wants to meet you right now. She doesn't like to wait, you know."

"Okay, I'll see her in seconds, thank you."

Scott bowed one more time before he left. The A.I grabbed his shirt from the floor and buttoned up as he walked down to hallway, came in the elevator in order to get to the dining room. He sighed quietly, fixed his collar carefully, tried not to show any emotion in front of Kirstie's eyes, even though he was drowning in it. He didn't need her help at all. At all.