Ava decides to explore the school, the hallway, the hologram, the technology, etc
Ava continues to walk around she wants to find Yaren her dear friend, it's been a while since she had motivated Yaren to buy a book named 'How to win friends and be influential' thus discouraging her from any wonky applications you see in manipulation books, you don't want another manipulator in your field and there is more power to that.
Ava looks for Yaren, but she is harder to find than usual. "Where could she possibly be?" Ava continues to look for Yaren, where she found her, and by the time she realizes, Yaren is already with another person
Yaren was spotted talking with another male, and then it occurred to Ava. Has Yaren overcome her social awkwardness already? There is no intuition to this, but it's too early for the book to take effect.
Ava continues to observe Yaren, she was just staring at her as she tries to socialize - she feels left out by her as if Yaren had moved on or forgotten about Ava, then jealousy ensues in her core she became somewhat convinced that Yaren has left her emotions getting into control except her cybernetics is telling her not to act impulsively as such actions of impulse could lead to unwarranted situations she decides to just observe her
Ava stood to just watch before Yaren noticed her. The girl waved her hand, "Ava!" She walked up to her and greeted her, "I have been reading the book you gave me. It was a good one, though I still have less experience, I am somewhat getting better."
Yaren introduced this male to Ava as Benjamin, "This is Benjamin."
while looking at Ava using her palm to point at Benjamin
Showing and introducing Ava next, "Benjamin, this is Ava. I am sure you and she are in the same class or section." Yaren smiles awkwardly, eyes forced with stars and joy
Benjamin pulled out his hand and smiled, "Greetings, Ava, it's a pleasure to meet you, knowing I am in the same class as you."
Ava can't help but return the favor, "Likewise, chap," Ava shaking his hand with grace.
Ava asked, "So, you manage to make friends.. What else do you aim to achieve? Yaren, are you going to find more?"
Yaren looks at Ava and says, "Yes, I can finally break free from the shackles of social awkwardness. Today, this Yaren has graduated from being a weirdo but a new egg that hatched on her soul and identity," said with confidence in her eyes, as if she's finally ascending - like little stars in her eyes
Ava asked, "I see, any plans for our meeting?" while talking with Yaren
Yaren looked at her with disconnection, "No, I don't have any plans with you." with blank eyes staring at her
She then followed up with, "Maybe another time. We can meet up, but I'd rather spend some time with Benjamin; he also has a friend group I might get along with."
Ava asked, "Can I join this friend group?" Ava speaks, but Yaren denies her, her face in rather disregard and scorn, "I don't know Ava, you might interfere with things, knowing you, it might not end well for me and the others."
Ava stood shocked and slowly, with pauses in the vocals, "I don't. Understand"
Yaren projected to her, "Of course you don't… I have some gratitude for you recommending a book to help with my socializing, but… You are not normal, Ava. Somehow, you are way too perfect, out of the league even with that cybernetic brain of yours.
"You will only be a barrier to anyone I know. Maybe another time - Cause at the end of the day, you are not even human."
Ava felt agitated, and she asked, pleading with Yaren, "Human? I am human, I know emotions are way out of my comprehension… But… But… I can feel them with you, the friendship." Ava started to have alexithymia. She couldn't process what she was feeling. She doesn't know how to feel, but it's unnerving.
She responded, "I don't know how to respond to this emotion." Ava was lost.
Ava walks away feeling somewhat perturbed and disappointed.
Benjamin looks at Yaren and says, "What was that?" Yaren reassured him, "Oh, it's nothing, it's just some random nobody." Benjamin said, "Okay…." before the two walked away.
And so Yaren continued with her new upstartness, leaving Ava with her deep fright of angst. Ava, in her own mind, was unsure she was just standing, unable to process what she just felt her mind was thinking; she was overwhelmed. She wanted to thin her mind out but she was frozen.
Meanwhile, there was another person named Henry, he saw Ava getting denied by Yaren, his handsome face with his blazer and blouse stared at the hallway and smiled, "Interesting…." touching his chin, his eyes brimmed with calculation while his black.
Before going out with a beautiful schoolmate by his side, his arm draped around her body.
Back to Ava, she felt betrayed, or better yet, upset. Ava decides to go out of her way, attending lecture after lecture, trying to busy her mind before reframing her mind with hopes, "Maybe another time I will ask Yaren again, or maybe not. This is not what I expected."
And so Ava waited for dismissal and walked to her house. As she arrived home, she went to her room upstairs and started punching the bed before her unstable anger simmered.
She looked around the room and noticed manipulative books she had neglected to hide, but one was missing. She understood what Yaren meant, but only partially, and if anything, it makes sense.
Ava crouched and picked up a book from the floor that she had neglected to store properly. She opened it and read it for a while, trying to see what Yaren had picked up or made about Ava that she neglected to hide or at least contain somewhere safe
Ava understands now and laughed as her mouth started to move from hysteria, "Stupid me."
Ava laughed uncontrollably and cried
"I was too busy watching a movie while lying down, distracted in my own mind, but I finally understand. Oh, stupid me, I am betting you don't trust me now."
Ava stood up and fell on her bed, and laughed uncontrollably, and said, "I guess I am just a weirdo now!"
"Nobody but just me!"
"Ahahahahahahahahahahah, just once have I hated something, I feel only hate."
"Just give me a nectar of catharsis already."
Ava continued laughing, spouting nonsense. She watched porn in her mind for a bit and started laughing, looking at the intimacy of two people, before saying to herself
"In the end, I am lonely, not even human. In a world of advanced technology, I am like its slaves, except a superior slave who is engineered" Ava implying tacit knowledge of her origins.