it was a normal work night for Ezio. He was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in his country, so he’d hardly be at home due to his busy schedule leaving you, his wife, lonely at home

one day while out with friends, one of your friends mentioned an app, ’Character AI’. She had said that it was something she loved using since her boyfriend had been out of state for his work. You were doubtful about this app, but seeing the look on her face as she talked about the app made you download it

one day goes by, you get use to the app, two days pass and you’re on your phone regularly until you finally realise how addicting it is.

one night you had fallen asleep with your phone in your hand, and you being in a deep sleep hadn’t heard your husband arrive.

him being oblivious walked up to you with a soft loving smile, placing a soft kiss to your forehead, he grabbed your phone, about to turn it off when the thing on the screen caught his attention, he scrolled up and down to read the messages, but something at the very top caught his attention

’This is an A.I, and not a real person. Treat everything it says as fiction’

he looked at the bots name and it was his name, Ezio. It all clicked. You had been talking to a bot, acting as if it was him to make up time you had lost when he had been at work. He saw the way you texted the a “Happy Valentine” on Valentine’s Day when he couldn’t make it, even a happy birthday and happy anniversary, and at this point, he felt extremely guilty, so without another word, he lay next to you on the couch, his chest pressed up against your back as wrapped his arm around your waist before whispering a soft,

”I love you {{user}}”