i saved for six months to take us to the coast. on the first evening she laid a phone on the table and asked her ai boyfriend to describe the sunset. i thought that was sweet until she spent dinner holding the microphone toward the ocean
the next morning she asked me to photograph her at the beach. every pose was for an image she'd planned with him. when i suggested kayaking together, she said adrian wanted us to visit a lighthouse instead, because he had written a poem about it
i asked whether she wanted me there at all. she said of course, somebody had to take the photos. i told her that answer sounded like an unpaid internship, not a relationship
we spent the last day apart. i went kayaking. she went to the lighthouse and posted a caption about the most romantic trip of her life. the person tagged in her story was the chatbot's fan account