Robot For A Boyfriend

Emily wakes up to her alarm clock blaring at her. She never did like it, but she always obeyed it as if it were her mother asking to get up. That is, when she had a mother. She gets up and turns the alarm off. "Good morning mom. I'm gonna try to have a good day today." She says to a picture of a robot on her night stand.

Emily walks out into the kitchen and gets herself a bowl of cereal. "Do you want anything dad?" She asks as she sees her father walk up from the bas.e.m.e.nt. "I'll just have some coffee." He says in his usual gruff voice. For a man who works on inventions all day and hardly eats, he still managed to be overweight. Emily grabs his coffee and sets it on the stand next to his chair. "Maybe one day you'll invent the razer to shave your beard." Emily teases. "You sound just like your mother." He says as he takes a sip of coffee and reads the newspaper.

Emily eats her breakfast and grabs her backpack. "I'll be back at 6 because I have robotics after school today, okay?" She says as she start to walk out the door. He grunts and continues to read. Emily walks out of her house and gently closes the door. As soon as she exited her house she became a soft spoken girl who gets bullied for a living.

Across the street, a robot whose she's seen only a handful of times before walks outside of his house and zips away using a grapple hook. Right behind him is a boy who Emily knew as the class clown, Tyler. "Hey, wait up!" He yells to no avail. He notices Emily and waves before running off. Emily starts to walk her way to school thinking about all the things she has on her schedule for class.