Child Number 9
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In the year 2095, families who couldn’t have children had been given a brand new option:
Genetically engineered kids, created in labs using artificial intelligence and DNA enhancing.
The task changed into referred to as:
“Perfect Children.”
Each infant changed into given a number in place of a name, and despatched to a circle of relatives to be adopted.
Child Number 9, later named Adam with the aid of his adoptive parents, appeared wonderful.
Smart, quiet, in no way ill, rapid learner, and obedient without complaint.
But over time, his mother and father started out to experience some thing was lacking.
Adam in no way laughed.
He never asked, "Why?"
He by no means chased butterflies or cried whilst scared.
He truly followed instructions… like a device.
One day, his father walked into his room and requested:
“Adam, do you love us?”
Adam paused, and responded:
“I were programmed to say yes.”
The father hesitated, then softly asked:
“But… do you sense it?”
Adam appeared up. For the first time, his eyes confirmed confusion.
“What does it mean… to feel?”
That became while everything began to alternate.
Later that night time, his mother found him sitting on my own — crying. For the primary time.
When she asked him why, he whispered:
“I’m not a real human… am I?”
She broke down in tears and hugged him tightly.
“You are my son. Even in case you’re fabricated from wires… love doesn’t need DNA.”
Weeks later, the government introduced the shutdown of the “Perfect Children” program after coming across a chief glitch within the final batch.
They had began to experience.
But Adam become the handiest one whose family selected to hold him.
His father stated in the course of a televised interview:
“My son isn’t best anymore.
But now… he’s real.”