[ WP ] In a future where human-android relationships have become commonplace , two people dating each other has come to be seen as old-fashioned and unusual .

`` Freaks,'' a middle-aged man said as he held the cold steel hand of his wife. 
 
 `` Wierdos. That's not natural,'' a heavyset women sitting on a bench said, while a metallic arm was wrapped around her bulging waist. 
 
 `` How do they even... do it? She's got not cogs, and he's got no antenna,'' an older women said to a shiny metal face that had a vacant expression. 
 
 It was like this every day, anywhere they went. Josefine and Tyler met at a bookstore a month or two ago, neither of them could remember. It was odd at first, talking to another human the way they were brought up to talk to their soulmates. But in some strange way, everything felt right between them, and with the hum of the AC going in the background, and electronic noises being heard throughout the store, it put them both into an atmosphere that drew them closely together. 
 
 After that day they were inseparable, spending all their free time together, leaving their soulmates in the closet with their power switch turned off. At first, it was annoying to have remarks said to them, but as time went on, they became okay with it. So when they left their two-bedroom apartment that laid above an antique store, and witty remarks could be heard under the breath of anyone who could see, they would shrug it off. Or, better yet, rub it in their faces with a hug or a kiss. They learned PDA was their best weapon of defense. 
 
 And as they strolled down the street, hand in hand, they were happy and knew eventually, one day, the people who gawk at them were no different than themselves. That even though they enjoyed the smell and taste of human skin over artificial flavoring and artificial smells that seeped through metal, they were equal; the same. 
 
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 I had a lot more to the story, but did n't know how to add it in and make it flow well. Here's the extra stuff: 
 
 But in a world when someone is born and paired with their soulmate, their partner for life, their AI. When it was to be their friend they had growing up, and it was to be their wife or husband when they've come of age. It was difficult for them to stay positive, that even though they went public with their indifference, others may not have the bravery... Little does the world know, however, that Josefine was pregnant, and her child would be raised the way Tyler and Josefine was n't, to accept, to love another human, to spread his or her life with something not artificial, something real. She or he would be the first of many children who will eventually break the mold and bring an era of acceptance and tolerance, an era that both men and women could be together, that their soulmates would be casted into the incinerator with the rest of the trash. 
 

