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After a long day of tasks, MePhone flopped onto the couch in the TV room. His limbs dangled off the edge of the couch cushions. Reaching over to the coffee table in front of the couch, his paw fumbled around touching the surface of the table until he got hold of the remote. He turned on the TV, and let out a sigh. Sitting up, his eyes had to adjust to the light before he could pick the show he wanted. Flipping through the channels, he finally landed on one that wouldn’t give him a freaking migraine. He already had a headache, he didn’t need it to be worse. He turned down the volume of the TV, as it hurt his ears. He landed on a show 4S had rumbled to him about one night, what was it called? Hi kitty or something? MePhone had been too focused on his thoughts that he didn’t even realize that there were someone’s pawsteps coming towards him.
“Hey Blue, finally watching Hello Kitty?” 4S’s familiar voice rang in MePhone’s ears. MePhone jumped when he heard a voice, he calmed down when he just realized it was just Red. 4S's comforting red screen lit up the room, resulting in MePhone feeling more tired.
“You scared me! Also yes, I have a headache again,” MePhone responded quietly, patting the area next to him, inviting his brother to sit beside him. 4S did so, his iconic sunglasses reflected the TV screen. MePhone checked the time, 10:41:33 pm, great, if Mr. Cobs hears the TV he’ll come in and yell at Red and him. Mephone decides to strike up a conversation with 4S. “So how was your day?” Asking as he generated a jar of chocolate chip cookies.
“Eh, boring as usual, except for when a worker tried to talk to me. He said I have nice sunglasses,” The MePhone replied casually, stealing one of the other’s cookies. Taking a bite he continued, “How was your day?”
“Hey!” MePhone snapped, responding to Red stealing one of his cookies for himself. “Oh, it was fine I guess, Mr. Cobs seemed chill today,” MePhone recalled going into Cobs office and he was met with little aggression, he was used to Cobs being more grumpy.
“Yeah I also noticed that, guess stock is during well or whatever.” Red reasoned, yet again stealing one of his brother’s cookies, he scarfed it down. MePhone giggled at that, until he had a bit more of a serious expression.
“Hey did you eat anything today?” MePhone 4 questioned, 4S and him were the only Meeple robots that were capable of feeling hungry, Cobs decided that none of the others needed this feature. Cobs would get mad at Red and him for being hungry when he was the one who programmed them to have the capability to feel hungry! That’s just stupidity! But MePhone would never say that to Cobs, he would probably be dismantled.
“Did you eat anything today Blue?” Red reversed the question from himself to MePhone. He pointed at MePhone with his paw causing him to flinch. “Sorry,” Red apologized quickly.
“I’m eating right now!” 4 snorts at 4S’s comment, then his stomach growls. Why was he even programmed with that? His changer tail thumped on the ground back and fourth, he wasn’t annoyed, his tail just did that sometimes.
“I’ll take that as a no until right now.” Red countered smugly, he scooched closer to MePhone to grab one of his cookies from the jar for the third time. He stopped midway through when a green light flashed, and barbecue flavored potato chips appeared in front of him.
“There, I know you like that flavor, now stop stealing my cookies,” MePhone grumbled affectionately at Red, swatting his deep red paw away.
“Thanks dummy,” Red snarked back at Blue, he elbowed him gently.
“Okay idiot,” Blue giggled softly, as he was trying to not be super loud. He grasped a cookie and brought it up to his mouth, taking a bite, just enjoying the moment. They both started eating their food. It was a peaceful, and sweet moment. Just his brother and him, after a long day, laughing together and watching TV. Focusing back on the show, which was still Hello Kitty, he queried “Who’s your favorite character?”
“I like My Melody or just basic Hello Kitty, who do you like Blue?” Red returned the question. MePhone pointed at a character on the screen, they were a white dog that looked quite similar to a bunny.
“Oh that’s Cinnamoroll, he looks like a rabbit but he’s actually a dog,” Red chats to Blue, he could talk about Hello Kitty for days and days but they were both too busy to do that. Mephone 4 leaned on MePhone 4S’s shoulder, taking pleasure in 4S’s higher body temperature. They were both too distracted to pay any mind to pawsteps approaching them.
“It’s late, why aren’t you two in bed yet?” A stern voice requested, a voice they both knew very well. A silhouette walked in front of the TV’s bright screen, Cobs.
“We lost track of time,” Red answers stiffly, his eyes narrowed at their creator. He reached over at the table and proceeded to turn off the TV.
Cobs only just hummed in acknowledgment, as he passed the couch to get to the exit his leaf tail rested on the couch backing, and he spoke, “Hm goodnight you two, 4 I’ll need you for something special in the morning, sleep well. Oh and also make sure you charge yourself before you fall asleep.” He continued to exit the room.
Mephone 4 immediately realized that Cobs was talking about him, a week ago he had forgotten to plug himself in before he fell asleep and he woke up to 49% of his battery left. Cobs was annoyed, but ultimately let it slide because they had a busy week.
“ ‘Charge yourself before you fall asleep’? What did someone forget to plug themself in before falling asleep, wait—Blue don’t tell me you forgot to..” Red groaned, all MePhone’s answer was an awkward laugh. “We should take Cobs advice though, it’s 12 am,” 4S rose up, and reached out a paw to 4, he weary took it. MePhone’s paws hit the floor with a soft thunk, due to his paw pads, a light layer of dust arose from the motion.
The two of them walked to their rooms together. Their rooms were right by each other, which made it convenient when they wanted to see each other late at night. The pair of MePhones entered their rooms without sharing another word, both exhausted from the work they did today.
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MePhone closed the metal door behind him, emitting a loud slam. He flinched at the noise, causing him to stumble and trip over his feet. He let out a groan while trying to stand back up. Finally getting back on his feet, he flopped down on his bed, it creaked under his weight. The light in his room was already turned off, he never really liked the overhead light anyways. It always gave him a headache. Sitting back up he put his hands together, focusing, he generated one of his nightlights. It had a bluish variety of tones, and it was orb-like shaped, or spherical. The nightlight pulled his hands away from his chest, raising them towards the ceiling. Letting go of it, the nightlight floated up near the ceiling, but still strayed close to him. Placing his hands together again, he formed another nightlight, except this one was a reddish variety of tones. He released it from his grasp, but this time it floated just right in front of him.
Letting his legs dangle over the edge of his bed, he plugged in his USB cord tail into the changer block in the wall. He could feel the energy flow through him, it felt like a weird tingly sensation. He was used to it by now, after months of doing it. Sliding back down onto the piles of blankets on top of his bed (he had generated them earlier and Cobs hasn’t said anything about it.) His bed was a bit of a mess, but who cares? Definitely not him. Pulling the blankets over himself, feeling the comforting weight on top of him. Gripping the red nightlight again, he brought it up to his chest, holding it like a little kid would hold their stuffed animal. Closing his eyes he fell asleep, letting out soft snores occasionally. He dreamed of himself and Red hosting their own reality show! It was great, the prize for being safe was lollipops.. or at least that’s what he wanted, Red wanted chainsaws! It was kinda funny actually.
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As 4S entered his room, he heard a slam from his brother’s room. Must have closed it too hard accidentally. He shut his door gently, walking over to his bed. Letting out a sigh as he flopped down on his bed. Fortunately Blue had generated lots of blankets and pillows for the both of them. Before there was only one pillow and one thin blanket, because he didn’t care how comfortable Blue and himself were. He said that they were only robots, machines, tools, so it didn’t matter how comfortable their sleeping conditions were. While once when Blue and him were exploring Meeple, they found out that he had a KING sized bed, and multiple pillows and blankets! Greedy much? 4S breathed out a sigh, at least he has been acting nicer lately, though it probably is just business going well. 4S let out a huff, way too many thoughts about his creator. Oh right he had to change himself.
Sitting back up, his legs fell off the side of his bed, dragging a blanket along down with it. Plugging himself in, he laid back down. Stretching out his arms, his sensors told him he was touching a soft fabric. Through the darkened sight of his sunglasses he could see a red blanket underneath him. Shifting his gaze to look back up at the ceiling. He remembered what Cobs had said to 4, ‘I’ll need you for something special in the morning,’ what did he mean by that..? 4S suppressed a growl in his throat. That doesn’t sound good. Hopefully he’ll be there to protect 4, though he doubts he will be able to, the both of them are always busy with tasks. Oh great now it was 12:35:28 AM, he had been up too long, he had to get up at 7 this morning. Finally pulling the blankets on top of himself, closed his eyes and went to sleep.