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It
wasn’t one of those big ones they had in car factories, but a
smaller one for petite electronics. It was bright
orange.
    We got
close to a young man in his early thirties, and dad introduced us.
“Dave, this is my daughter Mahi. Mahi, this is Dave, head of the
R&D for the veil project.”
    Dave
stared at me for a second, obviously interested. He took my hand
and kissed it lightly instead of shaking it. I smiled at him. He
was the kind of geek who had confidence, not those
socially-challenged ones. “Enchanted, my lady,” he said, with a
slight bow.
    “ Dave is a Tolkien fan,” my dad explained.
    Dave
took my veil phone in his hands and said, “Oh, you are one of the
beta-sneezers? Right, it suits you of course. Popular, young.
Attractive.”
    “ Any more epithets and we are gonna have to sit down and
discuss dowry young man,” my dad said in mock
seriousness.
    I
slapped his shoulder and blushed. “Dad! Stop that!”
    “ Right,” my dad said and resumed business. “My daughter says
it stopped working. Can we take a look?”
    “ Of course,” Dave said and got down to tearing the phone into
pieces with a pair of thin screwdrivers. His motions were
methodical, precise.
    “ Hey, I have to get back to my office. Mind if I leave my
daughter here with you? She can tell you how she likes the phone or
not,” my dad said, one foot already out the door.
    “ I will defend her with my life,” Dave said and brought his
fist over his heart.
    What. A.
Nerd.
    I
smiled, brought a chair and sat next to him.
    Very
close.
    Dave
opened the phone, examining it with some instruments. His gaze fell
on me and went back into his work a thousand times per
minute.
    “ What’s wrong with it?” I asked.
    “ We’ll see. Can’t see anything malfunctioning
really.”
    “ It just stopped.”
    “ Yeah, it might be due to a manufacturing error in those early
prototypes. We’ll sort it out before the major release. So tell me,
did you play around with it? Did you like it?”
    “ Sure, its handy. My friend used most of the new features, she
really liked it.” I took on an innocent tone of voice. “Sometimes,”
I said and paused to drag his attention towards me, “Sometimes I
can hear this buzzing in my ear, and like some sort of pressure on
my eardrums.”
    “ Aha. Well, it’s not supposed to do that,” Dave said, and I
studied his features. I couldn’t tell if he was lying or just
horny. I wouldn’t pass any detective exam anytime soon. “It must be
a prototype issue, I’ll send a memo.”
    “ Ugh huh. And the camera sometimes gets these smudgy glowy
parts.”
    “ Smudgy glowy parts,” Dave repeated, deep in thought. He had
pieced the phone back together and was pressing the power button.
It started up just fine.
    “ Here, let me show you,” I said, grabbing the phone and
putting my face next to his, propping the phone high for a
selfie.
    Click.
    I
half-hesitated, and then brought the phone closer for both of us to
see the picture. I had taken a pose like all the other social-media
selfie ladies out there, and he had just smiled and presented his
good cheek to the camera. We kinda looked good together, to be
honest.
    And to
my right, a hazy face. A smudgy glowy part.
    My heart
skipped a beat and I checked my watch. “See, here, it’s smudgy,” I
said.
    Dave
cleared his throat and grabbed the phone from me, turning it off.
“Yeah. Well, it might be from the prototype. Nevermind that,” he
said and presented me with another. “Here, take this
instead.”
    I took
it. I checked my watch again and stood up, losing my balance and
falling over him. Dave propped me up and smiled at me.
    “ Thank you. I better go say hello to my dad and head back to
school,” I said.
    “ School is important. Lemme know when you are done with
school-” he cleared his throat. “-Lemme know if there’s any more
problems,” he corrected.
    I smiled
and said, “Will do.”
    Then I
walked as fast as possible out of there, smiling