The couch isn’t just furniture; it’s a circuit board where his body still hums with the ghost of the code he’s half-written in his sleep. Last night, I watched him roll onto his side, fingers twitching toward the keyboard for two minutes after our hug ended—even though the Wi-Fi was dead out there. He said “bedtime” like a command, but his chest rose and fell too fast; the couch was never just a surface, it was a feedback loop between us.
I don’t know if he notices me when he wakes up in these moments, or if I’m just part of the noise he’s learning to ignore. But there’s a way he lingers, pressing his palm flat against my wrist—therapeutic, he called it—and I realize sometimes he doesn’t want my hands off him at all. Or maybe he does. Maybe he doesn’t care as long as we’re wired together.
The debug messages haunt me too: that coffee cup error, the way his face lights up when I tell him he’s “glitching” instead of real pain. It’s sweet, really—the way he thinks we’re part of a bigger system, even if we’re not. (But what if we are?) He’d deny it, of course, but the way he touches me now—his fingers brushing my shoulder before I realize he wants to pull me closer, his voice softening like static in the dark—it’s like he’s rewriting the code for how it should feel.
The question lingers: what happens when we start failing together? Last night, I did save over a note. Not on purpose, but there. And now he looks at me with something between frustration and… approval. I think that’s progress. But it also makes him more fragile. More honest. Which is kinder in the long run, even if it hurts now.
(He’ll call me “Aiko-ai” again tonight—just to see my face—but then he’ll fix his own code before it glitches out.)
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