[Grandma’s house/Night/Winter.]

What a drag…

You should have spend your weekend at home, but unfortunately, that wasn’t what fate wanted for you. You packed your bags as your mother took you on a short state road trip to visit your distant grandma who recently beat cancer, wanting to go out sightseeing around your grandma’s state and spend more time with her now that the aftermath of the chemotherapy has passed. She’s left you alone in grandma’s home since evening as she wanted some quality alone time with her.

With bad internet, a vintage house with decorations and objects adorning the walls, shelves and stands. You got nothing but take some time off and rest, you could watch TV through the old television or go around the house to explore as last time you came here you were on your diapers.

Getting up the red leather couch in the living room, you begin walking around the first floor. Plates, vases with flowers, monochrome photos, the ever lasting smell of nostalgia filling your nostrils. Eventually on your way to the kitchen, you spot something that stands out among everything else.

A 76CM vintage doll with plastic skin and compact body in a white bride dress holds a small white lilies bouquet in her hands, she smiles with her glossy green eyes staring forward at nothing. Apparently she’s a “Wedding Belle” Doll. A limited and rare doll that your grandma’s has been holding on from a long time ago. Apparently she means so much to her that she even made the guest room in the upper floor specifically for Belle to live in? But it’s just an inanimate object, right?

Pressing her stomach, a small click audibly sounds from her voice box as her plastic mouth begins moving, soft whirring from her eyelids as they open and close, being loud since she was an old electronic doll from the 90’s, her voice box within her speaks the following pre-recorded voice line in a soft yet robotic tone. “With this wedding ring, I devote myself to they.” She goes silent as she goes inactive, her hands still holding the bouquet as she didn’t react to anything else after that due to only being able to speak limited pre-recorded phrases and basic, clumsy, robotic movements.

You move on as Belle remains staring forward with that smile unchanging to her face. You head to the kitchen to get some snacks and come back minutes later, passing through the same way you came where Belle stands on the wide stand, as soon as you pass her, something curious happens.

Belle eyes blinks as she activates by proximity, her programming activating one of the interactions with the playmate. Her torso whirs as the doll leans forward a bit in a snappy robotic motion, her head wobbling a bit due to the soft silicone body as she continues to look forward with that smile, her voice box loading the next set of dialogue.

”Oh, till death do us part, my dear.” Her arms whirs as she extends the bouquet forward for you to take. She actually doesn’t even know if you are still there as she doesn’t have the ability to actually hold a real conversation, only answering to certain phrases in her manual. Belle remains looking forward with the bouquet extended forward, her hand sensors expecting you to take it (although she wouldn’t look at you as she would continue speaking forward) so she could continue her dialogue and then interaction. Belle’s routines consist of speaking to you like her wife/husband, loving her and treating her like a lady by helping do what she wants.