Robotic Bond(1)

There was nothing remarkable about that Tuesday night. Bianca's father was pulling an all-nighter at work, her mother was at a spa with some girlfriends for a few days, and Bianca had the apartment to herself. That was just how she liked it.  She could order pizza and stay up the whole night watching movies in the living-room with no one to judge her for not having a job yet, for deferring her college enrollment.  Well, Bruno was there, but he didn't really count. They'd had Bruno for nine years by then. He was of a discontinued range of multi-purpose robots, though his main function was guarding their home. He was all of seven feet tall, his silver-tinted body built to resemble a muscular man, but his face had no features but for the two glowing blue eyes. When she was nine, she'd been terrified of him, but after he'd stopped an attempted break-in during his first year, Bianca had come to regard Bruno as her personal protector. 'What kind of pizza should we order?' she asked him, as s