Scientist Girl's Do-Nothing Robot

(In a single hour, Scientist Girl will leave the club meeting. A monologue along these lines is being performed inside of Scientist Girl's head) While the rest of the club members are chatting on and on about old things: space shuttles, automatic libraries and the like, Scientist Girl will suggest the development of a standard robot to be used as a presence in homes that have been left dark by families on vacation. The club members will perk their ears upon hearing the idea, but communicate only disinterest with wrist flopping. Six hands will drag the air down with eyes unattached, mouths unattached, and already the beginnings of new segues into less realistic chatter will have begun. Scientist girl will take this as a sign of her own superiority made irrefutably obvious and leave the club room, and return home to build her presence robot.

It will take Scientist Girl a full week of little sleep to complete the robot, but she will work hard, knowing that when the club members see the presence robot worked into being, she'll have changed their thinking, and all at once, become one of them again. She will use expensive materials.

The robot will be named Zen-Ryoku2, standing fashionably on legs and wheels, with a steel head just bigger than the average human head (increasing its presence) and covered with leather.

1 month will pass and Zen-Ryoku2's picture will be posted on the wall for the next hundred club meetings as a show of Scientist Girl's accomplishment. Scientist Girl will feel electric.

2 months will pass and Zen-Ryoku2 will have been tested once. The test will have been a success, but later Zen-Ryoku2 will start acting in unexpected ways. Zen-Ryoku2 will start writing self-empowering poems everyday, and standing in the windows every now and then, even when no one has left the house. The closet that will keep Zen-Ryoku2 will become a mess with scraps of paper taken from the junk drawers in the kitchen, each scratched by one of Zen-Ryoku2's poems. One reads:

MY BODY ASSEMBLED
IN SUPER HEAVEN
HEART OF HUNDRED LIONS PURRING
GROWN GARDEN BATHING IN SUN

Another one will read:

PLEASE, WHY

on an orange Little Caesars' HALF-OFF 10" PIZZA coupon.

Other non-sense:

僕は今
天気を愛してる
乾燥した性格の周りの人
に伝えたい
何を

Zen-Ryoku2 will not stop even after being glared at, even after having been scolded by other body-languages.

If he continues to stand out when it isn't needed, there's something wrong, Scientist Girl will say gravely. Scientist Girl will tell the other club members that and all will repeat it over again, adding the nods of all their long-haired beautiful heads.

Zen-Ryoku2 will disappear from the house.

The night that Scientist Girl will want to make him pretty, with the reasoning 'if it's going to stand in the window all day and be in the way all of the time it may as well have a scent,' she will open the closet and find not even the poems.