I didn't think in depth enough about my story as I don't know how I'm gonna fit enough detail into 2 minutes but if there's a will there's a way and creating a story is a first for me. I really like Phil's idea in the feedback I got and am going to go with that... SO.
There's a mother and a teenage daughter who live together, the father is out of the picture because the mother has an extreme obsession with robots and dedicates her life and career to robotics which ruined their relationship, at first the robotics was a really cool thing the parents bonded over and they begun working together after meeting at a convention, they made a good team for a while but the mother got too obsessed and wouldn't do anything else so the father left leaving behind a child he did not know was growing, he now has a new life for himself.
Moving on, the daughter is a young teenager and is going through that point in life when you need your mother most, but she's never there, she's always down in the cellar which she uses as a lab, she is self employed so works from home day and night. This girl is a misfit in her world, people find her strange and a liar, they find her even stranger knowing that her mother creates robots, with no friends, no father, no siblings, she's all alone in this world, the only place, the only thing she has where she can release all her thoughts and feelings is her diary. She writes about her lonely life: the desperation she has to find someone and the struggle of being too afraid to try anything, the emptiness that comes with being made to feel invisible like you're a nobody - no one sees you, they see only through like you're not even there. In this diary she justifies why she should kill herself and how she plans to do it.
In town there's a park with a lake where locals like to go fishing, there are mini docks for fisherman, not not knowing how to swim and in a trance of pure carelessness and numbness jumps in, the water is freezing yet she doesn't feel it, her body goes under for a bit before a couple bubbles rise to the surface just before her lifeless body does face down. Her body is discovered and the police pay a visit to the mother confirming it was a suicide as a result of the autopsy. The mother for the first time pays a visit to the daughters room, she finds the diary in the bedside drawer and begins to read it, the beginning tells the version of the daughter who had everything to live for, full of hope and ambition. This becomes too much for the mother and she can't bear to read anymore, laying on her daughters bed, not quite crying but laying there in disbelief or on another planet, she realizes she'll never talk or see her daughter again, she realizes she took having her daughter around for granted, regret followed by guilt begin to consume her. She can't go back in time and change the past so she tried to undo the damage of fate by doing what she does best and going where no roboticist has gone before - she begins to frantically and desperately create a robot version of her daughter, she scans the diary and uses a computer to construct a brain, programme this digital diary to form this robot's mind, it talks only by quoting the diary. The robot's design will reflect the daughters interest when she had some.
With success, the robot comes to life and quotes things from the diary, the mother asks questions she knows what the answer would be, the beginning of the conversation triggers the robot to say more depressing things, the robot leaves. At the park, the robot is at the edge of the dock, the same one the daughter was, she speaks the final words to the mother and jumps in and sinks. The story ends with the diary and the suicide note written inside. The mother had to choose daughter or robots, she chose robots at the cost of her daughter and for that she will always feel this regret, this guilt, she will always have this emptiness that nothing can ever fill.
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