Night fell on the city ... Twilight closed the capital and its environs, allowing advertising lights to appear in all its beauty and perseverance. After all, willy-nilly you read this or that advertising inscription on a dark background of city streets. Only the moon played an independent role, flooding houses, offices and other Moscow buildings with ghostly light ... Eugene stood by the window and seemed to peer either at advertising "slogans", or admired the silent neighbor of the Earth.

But in fact, Eugene's eyes at the moment did not notice anything. Now she was generally indifferent to the world around her, for she was in a state of “waiting.” Such a function was sometimes included in itself by Dr. Shevchenko’s models if the system guiding the actions of artificial girls did not see signs of outsiders in the immediate environment. This concerned not only living beings, but also means of observation, such as cameras ... This was done to save the energy of the pupae.

At the sound of the opening door, the girl immediately "woke up" and turned to Alex entering the room.

- I think it fell asleep - she smiled guiltily - or thought very much ...

Telegin just grinned condescendingly, lately his faithful girlfriend showed amazing behavior, not at all characteristic of an obedient android doll. As if she was becoming a real person, as in the film about Electronics, and Alex began to feel a feeling for his wife that was not at all like what he felt in relation to other fake girls. No, he has not yet fallen in love with Eugene; in this respect, Dr. Shevchenko could be calm, but Telegin began to catch himself thinking that a specially created girlfriend was becoming a close friend. It is a man! The fact that Eugene is also just an artificial intelligence in a beautiful shell, Alex constantly forgot. She has already formed her character, her world view, her attitude to what is happening, and to people. And it cannot be said that Eugene's new views always coincided with the convictions of her master. It is unlikely that she was originally programmed. But the most interesting thing is that Alex liked her more! He was beginning to respect her opinion! Although, on the other hand, it was ridiculous to be serious about your own “I” robot, even such a pretty one. Alex had to figure out not only the transformation of the foundations of the existence of a “friend”, but also his own feelings.

He embraced the fragile body, Zhenya a little surprised, leaned him and even clung to his chest

- I thought that you would be angry for the fact that I lingered at Natasha ... - it was hard not to notice the warmth with which this name was pronounced

- No I am not angry...By the way, how is she?

- It's all right ... Her husband arrived and I had to leave ...

Evgenia raised her head and Alex saw a question in huge gray eyes.

- He is the same owner Natasha as you are to me?

- About

- Does he know that Natasha, like me, is not real?

- No, of course - Telegin smiled - and she herself doesn’t know about it

- Well, that's right - Zhenya unexpectedly agreed - if I, too, were still in the dark about my origin, I probably would have been easier ... - the girl wanted to say “live” ..

“I don't even know if I live or exist ...”

Telegin pressed the girl tightly and gently stroked her dark curls

- Probably you probably live, just ask such questions - he grinned

- Natasha do you like a lot?

- Yes, very much - having already lowered her eyes, Zhenya confessed - I feel very good with her ... I understand that this should not be so. But I can not do anything. Maybe I'm sick? Or we can not get sick? - the girl looked up again

“This disease is called“ love, ”and it looks like you too are subject to it. Although I think. that it is not normal when a man loves another man, and a girl another girl ...

- Natasha loves her husband. That's for sure! And with me she was just. But I don't know ... I love you and I can't be without you, but at the same time I want to be with Natasha ... I need to be treated! - suddenly declared Zhenya categorically - I can no longer ...

“You're really becoming a man,” Alex said out loud. Zhenya broke away from his chest.

Huge eyes on a pretty round face expressed anxiety and misunderstanding:

“I don’t know if I want to be like you!” When I was like all my other sisters, everything was simple and clear. Now I contradict myself ... You people live in a stream of passions, thoughts, conflicts. I do not know. how do you handle it. But it makes me very hard ...

- This is life ... - Alex shrugged - we are used to ...

“Can I get used to it?”

- I don’t even know - I’m not your creator. I'm just your friend ...

“Can we have friends?”

- You were created to love and be loved. Most owners love their artificial girls in ignorance, but I know who you really are. And for me you became not just a beautiful toy, but also a true friend.

- But also mistress. After all, this is my original role?

- It is too. You are excellent in bed - Alex confusedly agreed - but you expanded this role much more ...

- Probably because you are very kind to me - made an unexpected conclusion of Eugene - you know, but I want to be the same ...

- And what should I do?

- Restart me ... Maybe everything will return, as it was

Yes, this doll really knew how to surprise

- Do you really want this?

- I do not know. But we have to try - Eugenia’s gray eyes expressed both a request and a demand ...

- Well - Telegin agreed for some reason - you probably really need to rest.

He launched his palm with a strand of soft brown hair and pressed a miniature button behind the girl's ear. She was so small that it was impossible to accidentally touch. The body of the pupa jerked and went limp in Alex's hands. He carefully lifted the sleeping doll, and just as carefully laid it on the sofa. We had to call Sergey Anatolyevich ... For now he didn’t even know what to do next with his “favorite” doll. Either simply re-enable it, or really reprogram it. So that it becomes the same as when they first met, a naive girl who did not ask difficult questions.

Major Moscow was amazed. No wonder - not every day the stars of show business disappear in an incomprehensible way, and then suddenly appear. Not to say that Mila, a member of the vocal duet “black and white”, was a super popular singer, but together with her “girlfriend” Aurica they at one time were worthy competitors to other girl ensembles, for example “Via gre” the beauty of which was disturbed by more than one masculine look, looked very strange. No one knew the details, not even Mila’s close people ...Neither her producer, nor her friends ... However, they say, only her creative partner Aurika was listed among her friends ... But she also did not know anything, or did not want to say. Nobody at all had a clue about Mila's parents and relatives ... As if the girl had appeared from nowhere ...

And here again is a surprise. Mila is back on stage and in a star party. Live and unharmed, and even more charming ... The first concert with the new old composition of the duet was a great success. The ratings of the “black and white” compositions again rose to the tops of the national radio charts and hit - parades. Journalists and critics even began to push version. that the mysterious disappearance of Mila did not happen just like that, but was intended specifically to raise these very ratings.

But I did not think so a full aging gray-haired man, who is now with Mila in the room of a luxury hotel. The thoroughbred face, the luxurious dressing gown, and the housekeeper have said that the person in front of the girl is not poor, not even poor at all. It was Ivan Fedorovich Netsvetyuk - Ukrainian-Russian tycoon, who is the patron ...