Get Over Aperture
Ch. 8 You Again
Chell's POV
*Yaaaaaawwn...*
No work today. No caring.
I'm going back to sleep...
"Chelley! There's some guy here for you!" I heard Stefani right beside the bunk bed.
"Ugh, what for? Is it important?"
"I don't know! Just go to the door!"
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" Wait. Was that Mikuni's voice? I've never heard her sound so excited before.
"Chell! Get up, get up, get up!" She started shaking me out of bed.
"Mikuni! Why so excited? Seriously. It's so early..."
"Chell, there's a guy there and he is SO cute! Come on!" she half-whispered.
I gave up. "Alright, alright. I'm up."
I combed my hair with my hands a bit. Everything was still blurry and I was still so sleepy.
I was still in my clothes for sleeping which happened to be a plain white shirt and long orange shorts.
I was about to tell him how annoyed I was, when I saw his hair. It was blue. Seriously! And it didn't look dyed either. Somehow, it looked natural.
He was wearing blue shirt with a white jacket and pants. (Of course, why wouldn't he wear pants?) He looked pretty casual.
He was wearing a pair of glasses but besides that, Mikuni was right, he's got some charm.
"You still look the same..." he said with a smile and a very familiar voice and accent.
I gave him the 'Do-I-Know-You?' Look which I expected him to read easily. I couldn't answer him, for some reason.
He just kept smiling sweetly and warmly at me like some childhood friend that he missed.
Soon enough, he finally read my face.
"Oh, right, you wouldn't know. Hehe." He said nervously. "Come with me." He grabbed my hand and pulled my outside. I felt someone grab my other hand.
"Where are you going with her?"
Jake!
"I just want to talk to her."
"Hmph. You can talk to her inside."
"Sorry, but what I need to talk to her about is very, very important and only she can know." He said and pulled me away from Jake. He pulled me behind a tree a block away from the house.
"Well, we're alone, now. I think we can talk freely now. Well, I can talk freely now. I don't suppose you have anything to say...do you, Chell?" My eyes widened.
It couldn't...
Could it?
No!
"You remember that person yesterday near the shed that told you and your friends to not go in there?"
I nodded.
"Well, that was me in a disguise." He said, smiling. "And I was so surprised to see you there! Why didn't you try to stop the girl? Did you want them to meet GLaDOS?"
No way.
It really IS Wheatley! But why is he...?
"Oh! You're probably wondering why I'm back on earth and human. Well, GLaDOS activated this homing device that I didn't know she had, to bring me back. She wanted to bring me back so that she could torture me for her amusement." He said sadly.
Wow. That android demon.
"She used another machine that I didn't know she had, on me that can transform humans into artificial beings and vice-versa." I blinked at what he said.
"Now, here I am."
...
Awkward silence...
He read my face. I was probably unconsciously giving him the I-Still-Don't-Get-It Look.
"Right! Y-you're probably wondering why I came to see you..." he scratched his head. He seemed kinda nervous...
"Well... After hours and hours and hours of begging for forgiveness and that she would let me outside to see you, she finally allowed me, but only for a limited time..." he looked at his watch.
"Oh no..." something's wrong. Great. Just what I needed.
Wheatley's human, GLaDOS wants to torture him, he just found out about my new life with my new roommates... and now, something's wrong. Great.
I walked away while he tapped his watch.
"H-hey! Where are you going?" he asked, half-laughing.
"Y-you know, you're still as quiet as ever!" he said, half-laughing again. Was he actually trying to lighten things up?
"Well, you haven't given me so much time to talk, thanks!" I said angered. I covered my mouth. What did-? What did I say?
His eyes widened and he stared at me...
"You..." oh no. was he mad?
"YOU CAN TALK?"
Okay, that's it.
"Of course I can, idiot!" I expected him to start arguing and say something like, 'I AM NOT AN IDIOT!' or something. But instead...
"Hahahahahahaha!" he laughed.
"Oh, God! I thought you were going to be silent forever! Hahah... okay! You got me... I'm an idiot... Hahahahahahaha!" he said through some laughes...
At least he's not mad... he looked at his watch again.
"Oh no... no no no! I forgot about the time!" he started running away. I can't let him be tortured! I started running after him...
He looked behind and saw me. "NO! Don't follow me! I'm going back to the facility! Don't follow me!"
You're going back to the facility... that's exactly why I'm following you!
I finally caught up to him and grabbed him by the arm. I made a You-Don't-Have-to-Go-Back Look that I just invented now.
"I have to go back to the facility. If I don't..."
I saw someone tap him on the shoulder from behind.
He looked around 3 years older than us. He had silver hair that was probably dyed. He was wearing a white jacket over a plain black shirt and he wore pitch-black pants. Seriously, it was pitch-black.
He was also wearing a pair of glasses. And he had this big smile in his face.
A big, evil smile.