A/N: I AM SO SORRY! I'd give you a list of excuses as to why I've taken so long with this chapter… So I will:
1. I have an English project for school
2. I got sick over the weekend. (Don't worry not the flu.)
3. Fell off a cliff and got arrows jammed in my knees. (Not really.)
4. Kept getting sidetracked with playing Mann vs. Machine on TF2. (Pan Scout all the way! Nearly got kicked from an easily annoyed engineer.)
5. I could not for the life of me figure out how to have this chapter go.
Seriously I kept getting stuck in this one spot in the chapter. I would tell you but that would be a spoiler, and nobody wants that. This chapter is really short since I felt that I should get it out sometime within the next decade.
Also I will not give up on this story, I might take 5 12/21/12's to update but I won't give up on it. I just have a lot of things getting in the way constantly. Like my own procrastination... and school... and... um... bathroom, breaks.
Anyways, you're not here to hear me ramble, so enjoy the story!
Chell and GLaDOS hadn't done much during the five days since they received the first letter. Unless one can count talking, playing scrabble, and watching the science channel 'doing much.' During the five days, when they weren't watching some documentary on the birth of stars, Chell and GLaDOS began to create a backstory to tell Chell's friends. They decided that GLaDOS was an orphan who was abandoned on Chell's doorstep by her parents, Caroline and Cave Johnson. GLaDOS was reluctant to have those names for her "parents," but Chell assured her that they were perfect names.
On the morning after the five days, Chell was sleeping on the couch with a headache from not getting enough sleep. She and GLaDOS had been playing chess the night before, and GLaDOS was still a master chess player even if she wasn't a robot anymore. Chell woke up that morning to the sound of knocking. Getting up groggily from her couch, she walked over to the door and tried to open it. Completely forgetting that the door was locked, she kept tugging on the door, wondering why it wouldn't open. After staring at the door for a second, she realized that it was locked, unlocked it, and opened the door.
Looking down, she saw an envelope on the ground. There was no return address, only large text written in a sharpie that said, 'Test #01'. She knew that it had to be from that Cara guy, since the last envelope was just like this. When she brought it back inside, she saw that GLaDOS was waking up, so she went into the bedroom to tell GLaDOS about the letter.
"Hey," Chell asked, "guess what came in the mail today?"
"Let me guess," GLaDOS said sarcastically, "mail?"
"Obviously," Chell said while laughing, "I mean guess who the mail is from."
"I don't know," GLaDOS said while rolling her eyes, "why don't you tell me so that I can be more informed."
"Fine," Chell said, still laughing, "It's from that guy who took over your facility. What's his name? Something Car… Carmelo? Carman? Hmm… ohhh I got it! It's Carley isn't it?"
"Okay," GLaDOS said, rolling her eyes again, "one; his name is Carlos, and two; what on earth would make you think his name is Carley? Carley is not a name generally used with the male gender of the human species, and three; can you just read the letter out already?"
"Alright, alright," Chell says as she mock clears her throat, "'Hello Chell,'" she read, "'as you know, I have had you watch GLaDOS while I test her,' blah blah blah, random speech as to why he's so awesome, yadda yadda yadda… Okay here we go. 'In this envelope, you will find a bank account number which will have sufficient funds for you to send her to school. I need her to go there in order to test the social interaction between children.' Uhhh… a list of schools in the area… oh here it is, 'Now for the test, it is on the back of this page.'"
After Chell flipped the page over, she couldn't keep herself from laughing hysterically.
"What? What's on the paper?" GLaDOS asked.
Chell tried to stop laughing as she cleared her throat again, to begin reading the back of the letter. She was laughing so hard she couldn't finish reading the letter. GLaDOS sighed, grabbed the letter from Chell's hand, and decided to read it out herself.
"'Ha!'" GLaDOS read, "'I'm not going to tell you the tests. You will know them when you are tested.'" GLaDOS looked up at Chell, "I don't get it. What's so funny about this? All this says is that he isn't going to tell us how we're being tested."
It took Chell a little while to stop laughing, and when she did, she said "It's just that it's so funny how he made us think that he was going to tell us what he had in store but then didn't."
"I still don't get why you find this so funny." GLaDOS said, un-amused, "I don't even think this was meant for you to laugh at."
"Of course he meant for that," Chell replied, "otherwise why would he have written 'Ha!' at the beginning?"
"Because he was making fun of us!" GLaDOS exclaimed.
"Okay," Chell said, a smile still on her face, "but you have to admit, it was pretty funny."
GLaDOS sighed as a smile began to creep up on her face, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
A/N: Alright, I think that is a good place to stop. Now, since I'm assuming you read the above chapter, I would like it if you could give me ways to test GLaDOS and Chell. I have a few ideas, but I'd like this story to go on as long as possible. Also, I have a small project that I'm working on, so it might take up some of my writing time. However, I will tell you that it is a writing project, well, more of a RE-writing project, and it is not a school project. I will give you one hint, not counting the one above; it is about a terrible Fan-Fiction. THAT'S IT! No more clues. Anyway I hope you liked the chapter and I will do my best to get this up as soon as possible. The date is 1/22/13, Tuesday, 1:39 PM.
*Three months later*
"Oh, look, I almost completely forgot about this chapter!" Posts chapter.
OH RIGHT! Before I forget, I should tell you that my email is acting up again so it isn't updating itself and showing me new mail. So in order to see reviews and favorites, I have to go onto my Fan-Fiction profile to look at them; which I rarely do. :( Anyways that's the reason why if I don't read you're reviews in time to write a chapter. Now, time to answer some questions that people have asked.
randomSWEDISHperson: I realize that it seemed like Chell figured out who GLaDOS really was rather quickly. But that little scene there was supposed to take place for a little while. I'll try to make the story not flow so quickly in the future.
Guest (1/19/13): To answer your question, I am updating this story soon, as in the time you read this chapter is when it will be updated. Happy Tuesday!
