Elis took her new "servant" home. All the way on the street to her flat he was politely walking right behind her left shoulder. She discretely looked back at him and noticed his eyes were scanning every person walking in the closest distance of his new milady, frowning at some suspicious individuals who, when they saw him, quickly changed the pathway.

She eager to be home as soon as possible. M-bot was marching behind her with no problems.

Finally home. She opened the front door to her flat wide open and pushed M-bot inside when she decided he was entering too slow. She slammed the door behind them.

"You seem disturbed, milady. My sensors are detecting high blood pressure and a slightly higher temperature. I would recommend you to let me do something to help you relieve the stress." he made a small step closer to her with his hand lifted to grab her.

"I am ok, really" Elis quickly slipped between him and the wall into her living room.

It was a small room with soft sofa full of cushions, coffee table, table with lamp and a simple TV cabinet with not big plasma television. The most place was taken by a giant bookcase with dozens of books, an armchair, a big standing lamp and a metal stepladder all placed on the left of the TV. On the other side of the hallway to the left was a modern kitchen with many boxes with ingredients and also a few colorful stains on the ceiling and the walls showing the owner is an enthusiastic cooking beginner.
The hallway ended with one master bedroom and a bathroom doors.

M-bot was slowly walking behind Elis and looking all around him, visibly getting used to a new environment.

"I have no room for another person so..."started Elis but M-bot stopped her.

"I do not require laying down while resting, milady. I can stand in the corner or wherever you tell me is my place. Oh, I also need an easy access to electricity while charging my batteries so please put me somewhere near the outlet."

Elis looked around. She was so confused. He looked like a real human being, but still he was an artificial individuum with weird needs. "What about there?" she pointed to the bookcase corner. The lamp was plugged into a not far away outlet. "And you do not want to stand there, you can sit in the armchair if you want," she smiled at him hoping it would be enough for him.

"That is a great place, milady. Thank you," he bowed his head. "Now. Do you need anything from me?"

Elis was thinking deeply what she could actually use him for, when her stomach made a growling sound. Oh yeah it was almost a lunch time and she had only a light breakfast today.

"Can you help me prepare the lunch?" she asked.

"I can do this myself, if you want to rest. I am aware that humans need to rest after a time of stress. What do you want me to cook?" a faint white searching bar appeared in front of his chest, blinking with cursor. Also a laser keyboard appeared closer to her.

Elis was still feeling weirded out but she typed in "chicken risotto" she knew she has the ingredients for in the kitchen. A normal google search page showed up with some highlighted recipes for a risotto and she picked one that looked the most tasty.

"I will take it from here. Please, rest." M-bot smiled as the recipe page uploaded into his memory and he made his way into the kitchen.

"Do you want to show where everything is?" she called behind him.

"I will be fine, thank you," he turned at her and smiled, then he disappeared into the kitchen.

Elis sank down into the fluffy pillows and stared at the TV for a few minutes, listening to the noises in the kitchen in the next room. It sounded like he was a bit clumsy but he was at least not swearing and after a good half an hour a nice smell of a freshly cooked food made its way to her nostrils.

"Lunch is ready, milady," M-bot showed up in the doorway with her white apron on. Well, it was a white apron before. Now it looked like something Jackson Pollock worked on. In Bot's hands there was a plate full of delicious-smelling risotto. It looked like he just picked it out of the promo photo. He even decorated it with a tiny basil sprout.

He laid the plate on the coffee table and stood there, waiting another request.
Elis took a bite of that wonderfully looking meal. He forgot to taste it so it was kinda un-salty, but it was good nevertheless.

She stuffed her cheeks and was chewing happily when she noticed him still standing there. She quickly chewed and gulped. "Did you made enough for yourself?" she pointed at the food with a fork.

"Yes, I made my own food while cooking yours" he nodded.

"Then bring it here. We can watch some telly!" she shuffled in the pillows and put the plate on her folded legs. It was so long she would actually had a "visit" she almost forgot how cool it was to do something fun with another person.

M-bot was standing there, clearly confused, but then his obeying programs kicked in. He made his way back into the kitchen and came back without the apron and with the biggest glass he could find in her cupboard.
Inside it was some kind of a water that shimmered with a colorful glimmers when it was moving in the glass.
He sat next to her like a tin soldier and took a sip from his glass. Elis was fascinated by it. The water looked like it was made of fluid quicksilver and yet it was acting like some kind of a weird juice. The water was not the only thing she noticed. She catches herself staring at M-bots lips.
They were dark pink and looked thin but moist. The way he was drinking was actually pretty normal but still sexy. She quickly shook her head and almost spilled her lunch.

"Is everything OK?" He asked.

"YES!" she spit out loudly and quickly, hoping he as a robot do not know how to recognise human emotions. She could almost hear those two cameras behind his eyes scanning her and his highly modern artificial brain clicking while trying to solve the problem.

They ended their meal in the silence. After that Elis get up and moved into her bedroom to work on her computer while M-bot got a new request to clean the kitchen. She saw a glimpse of the room when she was walking by and decided she was not capable of cleaning such a mess by herself.

Elis was working into a late night. She almost forgot about M-bot, who came to her to get her permission to go charge himself up and then disappeared into the living room where he was sitting for a few hours near the outlet.

It was almost time for a dinner when she actually came to look for him and found him still sitting and charging up. "How do you do that?" she pointed at his cabel.

M-bots eyes flew open when he heard her and his logo on his arm shone.

"I have a handy cable here," he lifted his shirt above his chest to show her that he has a thin white cable stuck into his left pec just where his human heart should be. It was connected to him via USB and the other side was in the outlet on the wall.

When he showed her the connection, Elis blushed. She was surprised by his action, still not getting used to the fact that he was an AI and did not know how to behave differently. He just acted the way he was told and had no receptors to create shyness.

"Thank you, I was just wondering," she waved at him and turned away trying to hide her pink cheeks. "I...I am going to make something to eat, you want some?"

"I need to eat only once a day, milady." he smiled at her while unplugging himself and putting his shirt back down. She noticed the small hole in his chest closed up immediately.

Elis get into the kitchen and made herself a simple toast. While she was waiting for the toaster to heat up, M-bot came in. "I could do it if you asked me, milady."

"I must do something or else I will just lay around letting you take care of me and soon I will be fat as an elephant and immobile," she said with a laugh.

"I am here just for that. Helping and taking care of you is one of my primary objectives," he answered.

"But I do not want that. You are not my slave, M." she frowned. Thinking about having a servant was weird for her. She was used to doing everything herself and having someone else to take care of her due to their programming sounded still like a slavery to her.

"It is my primary objective to keep you happy," he said again. "The secondary objective is to destroy mankind"

"I an happy to have you here as my company, not as my personal slave!" she raised her voice.
The toaster on the counter turned green so her anger was pushed away while she was preparing her dinner.

"You do not want my assistance then?" he asked after a short silence interrupted only by sizzling of the cheese in the toaster.

"Listen," she said silently, "I got you because my stupid childish cousin didn't want you anymore and said he would sell you on e-bay. So I have you now."

M-bot narrowed his eyes as his high tech brain processed the new information and tried to solve the issue. "So why you did not let him do it? The problem with me would have been solved."

Elis was silent. She took the toasts out and put them on a plate and started to prepare some vegetables for garnish.

M-bot was waiting for her response in a calm quiet state.

"You are a human. Well you LOOK like a human, act like one and do things like one. I could not allow Matt to do something like sell you!" she was so angry and distracted she cut herself in the soft inside part of her finger. The knife was sharp and cut deep. Her blood poured out quickly.
Elis yelped and put the finger in her mouth, trying to stop the blood, but it was too much.

M-bot sprinted from his position near the door to her and quickly grabbed her by the shoulders. With his free hand he quickly and precisely pressed her artery in the soft inside of an elbow.
Her finger stopped bleeding almost immediately.

"Put your fingers here please," he asked and led her unharmed hand into the pressed place in her elbow and pushed down. When he was sure that she wasn't at risk of bleeding, he rushed to the bathroom where he expected to be a proper medkit. He found only a few patches and a peroxide. It was not enough for such a deep wound, but he worked with what he had.

He came back to Elis who was leaning against the kitchen counter with her bleeding finger above the sink.

"This has to be enough for us at this moment," he run around the kitchen counter to her and pressed her fingers into the elbow even more. "Now please hold still, it will hurt a little." He grasped her wrist in a firm clutch and poured the peroxide on it.

"Do not make such a big deal about it, it's but a scratch. Ouíííííí!" her heroic words were stopped by her whining. M-bot was holding her so firmly she could not escape and while she was wiggling around, he worked on cleaning and patching her finger up.

"I am sure we are done here," he let her hand go and started to clean the bloody mess around.

Elis frowned like a little upset child and looked at her hurt finger wrapped in a few rows of the patches so perfectly it did not hurt at all and yet she could not move her digit.
"No soft blow or a kiss for a good healing?" she mumbled for herself not meaning for him to hear.

M-bot had amazing hearing sensors, "What does that mean?" he turned at her.

Elises face turned red. She was holding her hurt hand with the other one like it was an injured puppy. "You know, that thing people do when somebody gets hurt. They blow on it or kiss it for a good healing charm" she smiled shyly.

"Give me a second please. Searching - good healing blow," he stopped moving for a second. in front of him appeared a mirrored Google page. He was speeding through many pages and he stopped at some article and highlighted words that reads: "Blowing on wounds creates a scab within three hours instead of the normal 24 hours but more tissue is sacrificed in the process."
"According to this the blowing on the wound is recommended" M said and the page in front of him dissolved back into his body.
He leaned forward and cupped her wounded hand in his palms and started to blow on her finger.
She was surprised how big his lungs were since he was blowing a steady stream of wind on her finger for a long time.

"I think it is enough, M-bot." she smiled when it started to be awkward.

He stopped blowing air on her finger, but didn't look convinced she was fine.

"Can I ask you something?" she started.

"Of course, milady. My primary objective is to answer any question as quickly as possible. What is it?"

Elis was wondering for a second on how to say it. "How...well...how should I call you? You know, I can't call you 'M-bot' forever!"

M-bot smiled and a small window appeared in front of him with words "RENAME BOT" and a flickering cursor with a keyboard underneath it. "You can name me however you want, milady."

Elis went uneasy. She was dumb when it came to naming something. Her pets were mostly called like "Samwise" "Billy" "Marshal" or "Steve" not thinking about if the pet was female or male.
She stepped closer to the keyboard. "How do you want to be called?" She asked, lost on this.

"I accept any name you give to me and I will respond to it every time."

Elis was thinking deeply. She tried some of the names, but nothing suited him so she deleted it and wrote a new one. Then she decided and wrote a simple M in a capital letter and hit OK.

"Saving the changes," he said and went silent for a second. "Name accepted." he smiled at her.

"Well that is done," Elis took a deep breath in and out.

"I like it," said M.

"Really?"

"Yes. It's short and easy to remember, good pick, milady."

Elis took a step back, looking deep into his smiling brown eyes and tripped over her own legs.

M jumped to her and caught her in midair "You seem to be a little dizzy from the blood loss recently. Do you want me to carry you?" he asked.

Elis laughed "I cut my finger, not saw off my legs! I can walk on my own." she wiggled of his hands and stood by her own and then she looked at her toasts. They were stained with a faint red colour when she was fiddling with her finger and stained everything even herself.

"I think I lost the appetite for toasts. What about a popcorn?" she turn at the robot. "We can watch a movie before bed..I mean before we go to sleep."

"My digestive system is able to process small solid food so popcorn will be ok with me." he informed her.

"Popcorn it is then!" she smiled and started preparing bowl and a butter popcorn. "Can you please go and prepare some movie to watch?" she asked him.

"I do not have a specific taste for movies and also I saw every single one that is on my internet connection, milady. What do you want to watch?"

Elis waved her hands " Maybe some horror. Just pick a good one."

She came to the living room to M who was standing next to the TV, looking up at nothing. The TV was flickering with many pages as he was connected to its wireless internet connection and searched for the best movie to watch.

Elis turn off the lights, sat down on the sofa and settled herself comfy in the fluffy pillows, a big bowl with popcorn on her lap.

"I am pretty sure this one has the best review from the general section," he informed her and put on the TV one of the newest movies. Elis knew about this one. It was considered the most scary movie of all time, but she was a horror movie veteran, she knew how the creators overpraise their movie and how bad and predictable the movie mostly is. But he picked it by himself and that was enough for her.

"I agree, let's watch it!" she curled up in a tiny ball.

M-bot stood there like a weirdly shaped lamp and was looking in front of him like a loyal servant waiting for his master's command.

Elis noticed him. "Why won't you sit down?"

M-bot immediately sat on the carpet, his legs bending in a weird ways while doing that.

"No I meant here at the sofa." she pat the place next to her. She was sure she will be scared and a feeling of someone next to her will give her some courage.

"If it is your command..." he stood up and moved to the sofa. There he sit straight with his palms on his knees.

Elis overlooked it. He was just a machine after all.

They were half way into the movie and while M was still sitting like nothing was bothering him, Elis was during the whole time sinking more and more into the pillows, stuffing her cheeks with the popcorn. She offered some of it to M and her hand was shaking so hard she almost dropped the bowl.

M glanced at her and scanned her. "You are showing signs of a distress and a high blood pressure. May I recommend some..."

"I am fine! Wanna popcorn?" she cut him short and set the bowl between them.

He accepted and put a few in his mouth. "Milady, your blood pressure is rising and falling rapidly, I recommend a calm time in bed." he said after he swallowed.

"I told you I am fine!" she said.

The silence was cut by Elise's scream, when something horrible popped out in the TV. Suddenly M had a lap full of spilled popcorn and Elise's shaking hands around his waist and her head on his chest. She leaped from her place so hard the pillows flew around. The bowl was still swirling on the ground.

"Turn it off!" she mumbled into his shirt. With one flick of his eyes the TV went black. The room drowned in the sudden darkness.

M was holding his arms slightly above his head not sure what to do now. His highly functioning brain was working overtime to solve this problem, but he was helpless. She was not giving him any commands and she was not showing any signs of big health problems.
"Milady?" he asked softly.

"Yes?" she whimpered, burrowing her face into his chest. He did not only looked but also felt as a real human. She felt no metal rods or plastic tubes but only bones and strong muscles. She had the urge to press herself into him even more. He patted her on her shoulder, hopeless on how to comfort her now.

"Do you feel better?" he asked and she could hear the confusion in his voice.

Elis snapped out of her scared herself and quickly retrieved back away from him. She almost forget he was just a confused robot and not her human friend with emotions.
"I am sorry, I overreacted I was really scared so I sought a shelter..." she hid her hair behind the ear, face red as a radish.

"Shall we continue now?" he asked and Elise's eyes widened, then she realised he meant the movie and facepalmed herself in her mind.

"No thank you, I think I had enough to have a pretty big nightmares tonight," she smiled at him and get up.

M. was on his feet quicker, prepared to help her anytime. He still felt her heart beat faster than normal, her face was white and her pupils were dilated. "I will help you to get to your room," he offered her his hand.

"I do not want an assistance."

"I insist." he said.

It was a little sign of a disobedience but she took it as a normal sign of chivalry or maybe his programming and the laws of the robotics are kicking in. She took his hand and let him hug her shoulders with the other one. She was really shaken and hurt from the cut before after all, she deserves some pampering, didn't she? He was leading her across the hallway to her bedroom.

"I will take it from here, thank you M." she softly wiggled from his grip when they get into her room.

"As you wish. I will be in the living room if you need me."

"Good night."

"Good night, milady."