She didn't know why she thought it would work out.

GLaDOS nearly chuckled from the irony. As if being shoved into a human body and booted from her own facility with the test subject wasn't enough, now she was stuck outside, on this stupid holiday.

She picked another petal off of the bouquet of roses in her hand, held it up, released it and let it blow away in the wind that was picking up. It must be what, forty degrees outside now? She estimated it to be about that.

It was just a dumb display of affection she had witnessed humans performing.

They had been stuck together in necessity, that although they didn't like each other, they needed each other; struggling with someone you disliked was better than struggling in a strange new world alone. Even now that they had built a life and they could part ways easily, they stayed together in the same apartment.

…Friends, that was it; they had become friends.

She came home, a bouquet of roses in hand, to find Chell had invited some – some other human to dinner. A male she knew from work. GLaDOS couldn't believe she had actually thought –

With a noise of disgust, she threw the bouquet onto the sidewalk next to her. Tears beginning to well up in her eyes, she quickly wiped at them with the sleeve of her black sweater. No, she was not going to be upset over this – over one stupid, fat, silent, insane human! Her lips trembled and she pressed them together tightly.

…she – she had even planned on baking her a cake later tonight.

That single thought broke the dam, and she deteriorated into a fit of sobs. Drawing her legs up to her chest, she pressed her forehead against her knees and just cried; letting the frustration, the sheer despair pour out of her with every shuddering breath. It was painful, but she couldn't stop.

She remained like that for a long time, watching the sun slowly sink behind the buildings that surrounded their apartment complex. No one so much as walked by; they were all home, she guessed.

Finally, her tears trickled to a stop, and she kept her head buried between her knees. The pain still remained, but… it felt slightly better. With a heaving sigh, she lifted herself from the ground and stood on shaky legs.

Only a few streaks of orange and violet light colored the sky between the clouds. Glancing up towards their apartment window in the building, she swallowed hard.

She had to face it sometime, she supposed, as she trudged towards the door.