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The Purchase
She was staring at nothing in particular through the window when her husband pulled her out of her trance. "Are you okay?" he asked. "Yeah, I was just thinking, in what were we?" "The doctor was just telling me the benefits and the costs" "Sorry doc but can you repeat it, please?" "No problem" she answered. The doctor incorporated wihtout leaving her comfortable chair. "As I was saying, we have various..packages, we have the standard in which besides curing all the possible hereditary diseases and selecting the gender you can choose how he/she will look like. Then we have the extended which is the standard plus skills that you want he/she to have. Finally, the platinum which is the extended plus how you want he/she to be in a behavioral/psychological manner...Oh, I almost forget we also have the basic in which you only select the gender and eliminate all possible hereditary diseases. Any doubts?"
She opened her eyes in surprise and said "No, it's just that...is a lot to process" The doctor kept a smile to both of them. "Look, in here explain in a more detail way what I just say and the prices come" and the doctor gave them a booklet. By the way the doctor see the couple acting, she said "He/she will be your children all the time, will have your genes, don't worry. You know we can't clone here, it's illegal" the doctor seemed anxious. The doctor took a breath and got up from her seat and said in a more serious way "Take your time, I'll leave you a moment" she left.
"What going on?" he asked.
"I'm not sure about this, this feels strange"
"C'mon, we discussed this already"
"I know but,...why don't we have the baby in the old-fashioned way?"
"Because...(he sighs) the baby will be more safer here. Also would you like to have (he pointed to her belly) there?"
"I don't know, it is that my parents have me that way"
"Yeah, mine too, and that is becuase they didn't have this (he look around) place. Think about the benefits, you won't have to carry the baby, you wouldn't stop working, you could get drunk, but the most important is that if something happens to you, God forbid, the baby will be fine"
"Thanks, that really comforts me."
"I'm sorry. You what I mean..."
"Fine! We'll do it your way" they stay in silence for a moment.
"I'll go for the doctor" he left the room.
He returned with the doctor behind him.
"Have you already decide?"
"Kind of"
"Before that I would like to tell you about the offers. If you pay with some of the participating credit card you wil get 12 months without interests and 2x1 in any purchase of our standard package or above that means you can get twins by the price of one!" the doctor is excited and kept her smile.
"Will kept that on mind"
He continued talking to the doctor about some warranty. She didn't speak. She felt dissociated and started looking through the window again. Thinking of the world she live in as the rain assimilate her tears.
