Santiago and Moises took the Train 20 minutes later after they exited the facility, it was a long journey of 40 minutes from Niquia to Envigado but at 4 pm there weren't a lot of people, they sat beside each other and watched silently the city passing beyond the reinforced glass, Medellin wasn't a super technologic city like New-York or Dubai, but at least the contamination that was once a problem 30 years ago was almost gone; they saw run-down houses and tall skyscrapers that reached the sky, the green mountain were 'pueblito paisa' was, the highway full of electric cars and the streets of 'el hueco' full of people bargaining with street vendors.
"At least we have a nice city" said Moises to break the ice, "Bogota got worse with the years."
"Yeah, but overall still our country is shit, including this city" Santiago and Moises chuckled at the first's comment.
"I wish we were born in Germany…they have nice beer and beautiful girls" Moises stretched a little a stood up to let an older woman sit.
"Me too…they have a better VR center than we and we could be gaining more money with our job; but at least here I have Suzette and Francisca, that makes Colombia not so shitty." Santiago cracked his neck his shoulders without bothering the lady.
"You got lucky there, I'm still searching for my half-orange…" Moises sighed dramatically and Santiago laughed at his behavior, "Why are you laughing? This is a very serious matter."
"Please, you never talk about falling in love and I've always see you watching at the side lines, what changed your mind?"
"Well, you've been rubbing in my face that you got a beautiful lady as a wife and a cute little daughter for 4 years."
Both friends stared at each other and laughed, they were this informal just because they were with each other and outside work, when the train arrived at Envigado both alighted and took a taxi to Santiago's house, they remained in silence watching the houses passing by, the homeless people sleeping under the bridges, the couples at the park having their sweet moments and pubs with loud music.
They arrived at 5:20, Santiago paid the fee and both men entered the house shortly after; it was a small white house of 2 floors beside a Hair salon, Suzette was watching a Turkish Series on the TV while folding the clean clothes, she was almost as tall as Santiago, with red hear, amber eyes and freckles on her cheeks.
"Oh! Hello honey! I wasn't expecting you at this hour" she received him with a light kiss on the cheek, "hello Moises, is Santi behaving at work?"
"As always Suzie" Moises chuckled and let the couple have their little romantic moment.
"I'll work on something with Moises, tell me when Franci arrives ok?" He kissed her a couple of times before she let them enter the house.
"Ok, but don't work too much, it worries me when you fall asleep in the basement." Said Suzette with a worried expression and tugging a little Santiago's shirt.
"Don't worry sweetheart, we'll not take that long" after kissing her a last time he went with Moises to the basement and left the HDD on the table.
"Do you want some Pepsi?" asked Santiago at the edge of the stairs.
"Sure, I'll boot up the pc"
While Santiago went for drinks Moises turned on the PC and connected the HDD to the CPU and waited, His friend arrived shortly after with glass cups with bubbling black and cold liquid in a tray, he gave Moises one and drank the other after a little toast.
"So, what do we have here?"
The night was uneventful, they erased part of Lirya's core programs that makes her judgements so radical and were replaced with milder responses, but they didn't suppress her innate curiosity and craving to learn; Moises left the house at 8 pm, and the Lozada Family had dinner 30 minutes after that.
The next morning at 5 am the 3 of them were awake, Francisca was preparing to go to school and Santiago to go to his job but he was a little tired, she was about to call to his job to ask a day off when he was up and ready; the 3 of them were having a simple breakfast at 5:30 and it was very peaceful; Santiago was in his uniform and Francisca too, she was a 5 years old girl with red hair like her mother and had freckles too, but one of her eyes was amber and the other was dark brown like her father's eyes.
"I remembered, that boy bothered you again Franci?" Santiago patted his daughter's head with a clean hand.
"No daddy, thank you!" said the little girl.
"If anything happens you have to tell mommy, ok? don't bite people, even if they're mean" Santiago smiled and continued eating his sandwich.
"Ok! I won't bite people." said the little girl happy believing in her father's words.
"Honey, I should come late today, there's too much work to do at the office" Santiago sighed and drank his coffee.
"Don't worry, I'll wait for you," said his wife with a little smile.
"Me too!" said the little girl excited to wait with her mom for dad.
"You need to sleep early because tomorrow you have class and you don't need to wait for me, honey; try to sleep early" he felt warm filling him and smiled again at his family, then he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and trim his beard.
He kissed his wife and took his daughter's hand to take her to school before going to work, it wasn't very far from their home so they arrived a couple of minutes later and kissed her forehead.
"I love you, daddy! have a great day."
"I love you too my Francisca; you're our treasure and a very special girl, don't let anyone think otherwise" he smiled at her and let her go to the teacher, he greeted him briefly and took a taxi a couple of meters from there.
He arrived an hour later to his job, greeted the security guards and some co-workers that passed by and arrived at the control room, greeted his coworkers and sat down on his chair.
"Lirya is ready, I'll connect her again." Said Santiago returning the HDD to its place.
"I only hope it doesn't go 'Skynet' and kill us while we sleep" Juliet made a little reference of an old movie and her coworkers chuckled at it.
"let's hope that" Santiago booted up the pc and reinstalled Lirya.
Said the mechanical voice from the speakers, the 3 technicians were a little more relaxed knowing they repaired their AI but it didn't last long, there was a lot of work to do and little time to finish it.
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