Cornelia typed into her digital memoir, "I am twenty-one today. I have reached the official age. I will be the same for the next two hundred and seventy nine years. I will not age. (Doubt: I wonder what aging means!) My parents programmed my life right from my birth till this moment. Now I get to plan the remaining years of my life. I am completely clueless. Everyone says I should be euphoric about this new change. But I am not. I think I will give myself this night for the change to sink in."

Cornelia opened her Adult Life Program App and clicked on the choice, "Unprogramme this night!"

Something different happened that night. The digital sirens began blaring and the news holograms started flashing, "Alien Intrusion! Kindly notify the authorities by pressing the 000 button if you notice anything unusual."

Cornelia had been standing on her balcony. She was about to head inside when she bumped into someone. As she warily glanced in the direction of the 000 button, he spoke up, "Hi, I am Mark...Mark Casper from year 2018. What's your name?"

"Can't you read my name from the PII with your digital vision?" Cornelia incredulously.

"And what the heck is that?" said Mark.

"The 'Personal Information Interface'....", Cornelia continued.

Mark interrupted at this point, "Can you just tell me why those sirens are blaring?"

"They were warning us about you?"

"Good gracious! Don't tell me that! You aren't going to turn me in, are you? Do I look so dangerous?"

"No, you look the same just like me and my people. I will not turn you in", Cornelia finally said after a slight pause.

"I believe I can trust you, beautiful!" Mark gasped.

"'Beautiful'? What does that mean?" Cornelia asked.

"Has nobody told you that before?"

"NO!"

Out of a mad impulse, Mark leaned in and kissed her.

Cornelia closed her eyes instinctively, gasped and moaned, "Is that what 'beautiful' means?"

"Yes, that is what 'beautiful' means!" Mark whispered into her ears.

"Can we do that again?"

"What?"

"Beautiful!"

They kissed again under the starlit sky.

Mark's face clouded for a fraction of a second. He had overstayed his limit, "I have to go back!"

Cornelia pleaded, "Stay with me. My life will never be the same after you."

"I will come back for you 'beautiful'! I would like to know you. I would like to spend my time with you. I would like to love you when you and I are ready for it." Mark reassured.

As Mark boarded the cylindrical contraption and vanished into the thin air, Cornelia held back a slight lump of regret, "I'll wait for you, Mark. I was living all this while but you made me come alive."

Cornelia opened her Adult Life Program App and clicked, "Unprogram every night of my life!"

Cornelia wrote into her digital memoir, "Some things in life cannot be programmed into snug compartments. Change is also like that. Mark was my change...."