Roomates

[astridhail]

"What is it Zara?" Astrid asked pulling a headphone from her ear. She looked at the girl, cocking her head to the side slightly. Something was up with Zara, and Astrid wanted to know what it was.

[zara]

Zara smiled, blushing, and tried her first lie. "N-nothing." As she defied her programming, there was a tiny shock through her system and she automatically regret it, hand flying to her back to sooth the pain.

[astridhail]

Astrid was next to her with a frown, removing the program's hand from her back.

"That was a lie," Astrid said holding Zara by the wrist, "Now tell me."

If Zara started lying to her Astrid was seriously going to start breaking down. She could take others lies but Zara? That was like a knife threw the heart.

[zara]

Zara leaned over and kissed Astrid, "That, okay?" She blushed, feeling really bad for lying to Astrid. The user had to know that was her first lie and that it was causing her pain by the way her face was twisted up before she had come over to her bed.

[astridhail]

"That's fine," Astrid said letting go of the program's wrist to go back over to her bed.

She hated being mad at Zara, but still the program girl had just tried to lie to her. Astrid shoved her headphone back in and crawled into her bed, turning her back to Zara. She needed a minute to cool down and sleep. Though sleep didn't want to come to her.

[zara]

Zara was hurting inside. She was still in pain from disobeying a large part of her programming, and swore never to try anything like that again. She curled up on her side and pulled the covers over her, trying to numb the pain if she could.

[astridhail]

Astrid gave up finally getting out of her bed and walking over to Zara. She rubbed the program's back and just sat on the ground next to the bed. The girl had to be in pain and since her infodisk was the only thing Astrid couldn't hack it made her feel kinda useless in that department.

[zara]

Zara shivered a bit at the user's touch and whimpered, "S-sorry." She felt terrible, reaching for her infodisc, desperate to delete this whole night. She wanted to forget the lying and the pain.

[astridhail]

"Don't Zara," Astrid said, "If you delete it you might try...lying to me again."

She got up off the floor and kissed the program's cheek. Still rubbing the girl's back trying to get rid of some of her pain.

[zara]

"But the memory...." Zara choked back, "It hurts just as bad." She looked up at the user, looking like she was going to cry. She had hurt the user she cared most about, why wouldn't she?

[astridhail]

"Alright fine," Astrid said shrugging, "Delete it then."

She got up and went back over to her bed pulling out her info disk and typing in it quickly before trading it for her touch screen.

[zara]

Zara deleted the memories, watching them drift off into pixels and disappear. She was crying by this point, curled up under the blankets. But this was going to be the last time, she swore. She would never hurt her user again. Not after all the hacking she had done to herself to become Astrid's program the past few days.

[astridhail]

"Zara don't cry," Astrid said putting down her touch screen and motioning for the girl to join her.
Why the hell she couldn't stay mad at the program was beyond her.

[zara]

Zara looked up, but couldn't really find it in her to move thanks to the pain, but she wanted to do as the user said. She forced herself out of bed, with shocks and sparks inside her, wincing as she moved across the room.

[astridhail]

"Sorry I didn't mean to make you hurt more," Astrid said with a sigh as the program crawled in beside her. Astrid wrapped her arms around the girl and held her close. Not sure if she was causing more pain.