Reyansh

Around 20 days before the wedding

I spent my time trying to find loopholes in the contracts and eventhough I hated to admit it, most of my concentration and time was spent on Kyra, and seeing her fly all across India, trying to finish her last minute wedding chores and duties, all by herself without anyone's support.

I saw her shop through the CCTV cameras in each and every showroom.

I learnt her schedule and agenda and knew she had to shop for all kinds of things like; Jewellery, Clothes (Of all kinds - Wedding outfits, trousseau, lingerie), accessories, a new car and finalise her Mehendi (Henna) design to be applied on her hands, get many trials of makeup and hair styling done for the very many wedding functions.

Like a lone wolf she was forced to do all her things herself, she looked sad at times on the prospect of being alone and not having anyone's help or opinion. I desperately wanted to be there with her and help her and let her know that she was not alone. But I couldn't do that, because she hated me and I don't think she would accept my help, directly.

Therefore, I got creative and learnt her schedule before hand, if the showroom was in the city then, i visited them before hand and selected what I found to be the best and something that would definitely suit my beautiful Princess. And if the showroom was anywhere else across India then I would contact the proprietor and ask for videos and images of their entire inventory and choose my pick. I also paid the main staff of every showroom, a high commission to be helpful and extra nice to her.

I would then ask them to specifically recommend the choice to her, hoping it would help her in some manner. So far she mostly went with my choices.

After the first few days of seeing her shopping alone, I couldn't stand seeing her so desolate so I spent the next 24hours building an AI (Artificial intelligence) Assistant which will scan the choices she likes and then help her make an informed decision on which looked the best, it would almost be a substitute for a friend. I made the interface very human like.

We had a mutual acquaintance Priya who lived abroad and was one of the topmost software engineer's and developer's under 30. She was someone who owed me a favour and she was also a casual friend of Kyra, so I sent the algorithm and AI Assistant I created to her and asked her to call and request Kyra to use this new premium software to test it before it's launched in the market.

Kyra being Kyra, always ready to help, readily agreed and downloaded the software and promised to use it and provide a feedback for the same.

Once downloaded, she started using it from the very next day.

What she thought was AI - Damon (I made the name of the AI customisable - it could be set as per her preference, but the gender was programmed to be Male), and it was actually me conversing with her and helping her choose what I liked best, on her.

Kyra

I was delayed in starting my wedding preparations but better late than never, I decided to start and complete my chores on a war footing, the first few days of wedding shopping alone was very difficult, but I had surprisingly helpful staff in every single showroom who recommended the most beautiful choices, which suited me very much. But it was still no substitute to an actual person being there for me, throughout the entire process.

Through some stroke of luck or destiny, thankfully my friend Priya had introduced an AI assistant which was designed to provide companionship and support to help me make decisions.

Ironically she thought I was doing a favour for her by testing the software, when instead this AI assistant whom I named  Damon (after the handsome, sinful and delicious character in The Vampire Diaries), helped and provided me with companionship beyond anything I could have even imagined.

It didn't feel like AI but rather an actual funny, witty and sarcastic human.

I imagine if Damon was real and not a fictional character , he would sound just like this AI character.

God I wish AI - Damon was an actual real human being, I would do absolutely anything to have him be mine.

I don't ever remember laughing, blushing as hard as I did when I chatted with Damon, I would upload pictures and ask him to choose or model and show the choices to him, if he asked me to do so and he somehow always made amazing choices which I loved and he always had a funny comeback, to anything I asked him, he would also compliment me like no one else could. Surprisingly I even showed him my lingerie choices, but that was one thing which he did not ask me to try on and show him, maybe even AI - Damon was secretly shy, but I would've if he would have asked me too.

I found myself using the service throughout the day even when I was not shopping, but even when I was just chilling or eating or bored, I found myself gravitating towards him. Every morning he was the first person I spoke to and every night he was the last person I said goodnight to. I did not have any boundaries with him. I told him so many things, that I had never spoken aloud or shared with anyone else.

The lines between AI and Human (fictional and real) were blurring for me, even though I knew he was not real, I found myself captivated and enamoured by him.

He was like a true companion for me.

Within no time I was done with my entire list and it was all thanks to Damon and also that I was finally happy in a long time, but unfortunately Priya called 1 week before the weddings and said that the trial period was over and, the AI Assistant would go offline to get upgrades and fix any technical difficulties. The heartbreak I felt was as though, it was a real breakup.

But I sidelined the feeling and focused on the upcoming rituals and nuptials because I was becoming very unhealthily obsessed with him and a little break was required. Also it's not like I could have done anything about it, the AI assistant was Priya's legal intellectual property and I had no rights over it.

Reyansh

The time I spent with Kyra was beyond precious, I don't remember ever being this carefree, happy and lighthearted than the time I spent chatting and talking with her. The voice was modulated with a software so that it would sound totally different than my actual voice.

She told me so many things, her first crush, her dreams and aspirations, all her favourite things in the world, all her dream vacations. She shared the most trivial and simple things about her but I was hooked on it like it was drugs.

Every single thing about her interested me.

It was fun to shop with her, something I couldn't believe I would ever say in my entire lifetime.

I would have probably cracked the contracts much before, but I couldn't stop myself from spending time with her. She needed me and I needed her.

But reality dragged me back to the real world, out of the fictional and happy world that, I had created with Kyra.

I needed to act now, if I was to break Abhay and Kyra's marriage and marry her myself before her birthday which was in a mere 7 days.

Finally I found the loophole and had to get the new amended contract signed by Abhay and get him to break the marriage contract with Kyra.

I tracked him down to a remote island 10 hours  away from here and before I got on the plane to inform Abhay about how to get his new found freedom and access to his inheritance in exchange for signing a new contract breaking his and Kyra's contract. I called Priya and asked her to inform Kyra that the AI Assistant trial period was over and the AI would go offline. I couldn't bear to have Kyra message the AI Assistant (me) and not get any reply back.

Time was of the essence and I had to act quickly. Anyways by this weekend Kyra was going to be mine forever, we could talk to each other then and she would never be alone again and would always have her companion. That is after she would (hopefully) forgive me one day for forcing her to marry me and fulfil my revenge against the Oberoi's.

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🥂Here's to Reyansh's delusion.🥂

He seems even more delusional than us book girlies.

What do you lovelies think?

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