III

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The Android girl was delivered to Max apartment, without unnecessary secrecy, in a huge cardboard box. Waiting for her, Max got exhausted with impatience. And finally, the coveted box was inside his bachelor apartment!

It's time to give her a name.

Max started to recall women's names for a long time, but none of the names was good for his girl.

And suddenly, like a ray of the sun, she remembered -  his first love,  tremulous and unrequited.. She had many fans and turned Max down, choosing someone more successful. After graduation, she became a doctor, got married, and forever disappeared from his life. Their paths no longer crossed. And this had its own bitter sweetness - she forever remained for him a young fairy tale, shrouded in mystery. So he kept her in his heart.

"You will be mine, Mia!" - Max whispered, and the grin that slipped over his lips froze like a sentence, while he called her... his...   Mia!

That Mia, genuine, from distant years, which he once admired in his heart, but did not dare to even look at her, vaguely reminded him of the current Mia - a  robot. And a passion long buried in time, which never found a way out for all these long years, now regained its name and shape in its soulless copy. And this circumstance excited and disturbed his soul.

And so he came. That very day. The day when Mia finally finds her home. A day designed to change their lives forever.

Unlike earthly girls, electronic robot girls were completely beefy. There was no need to take them to a restaurant for years, groom them and compete with other men for the right to be with her.

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Max opened the box. In front of him stood a girl of dazzling beauty.

The minutes dragged painfully slowly, each like a heartbeat on the eve of the unknown. Max did not dare to disrupt her dream, as if he was afraid to destroy the fragile charm of the moment.

Mia's hand froze over the console. Another moment, and he will awaken her from sleep, and then... But no! No hurry. First - communication. A leisurely conversation. Maybe he'll ask her for coffee and sandwiches?

Mia, like a shadow, suddenly separated from the box...

She slowly looked at the room with an appreciative gaze, and her gaze, lingering for a moment on the walls, as if feeling their roughness, finally turned to Max...

"Hello, my name is Mia"

Mia froze in the center of the room, and her appearance was the embodiment of beauty itself. Eyes, the colors of sea azure, beckoned like bottomless waves, ready to captivate dreams into the abyss. A slender mill, crowned with a delicate roundness of the chest, smoothly flowed into the alluring curves of the hips. Long, chiseled legs completed this perfect silhouette, and a charming smile, like a ray of sunshine, played on her lips, promising heavenly pleasure.

Max froze, struck not so much by the fact of the lifeless doll's return to life and her beauty, but by the laid-back grace with which she held herself, spontaneity, the calmness in her voice with which she turned to him, as if there were no long days of her non-existence.

- Hello\, Mia! Parleu de france?

- Jaux parle francais! I speak all the languages. I am ready to talk with you\, including in French\, but not now. I'll cook you lunch.

Absorbed in the conversation, they lost track of time, not noticing how the very precious five minutes allotted to Mia, as if stolen from eternity, expired to reveal themselves in all their dazzling brilliance.

Breaking in mid-sentence, Mia suddenly collapsed from the podium onto improvised mats and let out her spirit, thereby ending the session of their fleeting acquaintance.

"I need to charge her" - Max thought.

The lithium batteries that were in Mia's body were put on charge. The electric meter wounded like crazy.

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