A FNAF Reality
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Chapter 1: Surprises
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Forever. I will always hate my birthday...the day when it happened. When I turned twenty.
The day I was no longer a teen.
The day I nearly died.
It will haunt me for the rest of my days. It will never leave...
Five Nights at Freddys will never leave...
Three weeks before incident...
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I woke up to the sound of a loud buzzing noise. I groaned as I turned over in my bed in irritation, causing the warm blankets around me to wrap tighter around my waist. I strained my arm towards my cluttered dresser, next to my bed where my phone sat. Once my fingers wrapped around the cold, smooth rectangular device, I pushed the button in the center, below the screen. Instantly the screen of my phone lit up, brightening half of my room.
My eyes winced from the sudden harsh phone light. A message sat waiting for my response. It was from my boyfriend. I laid on my back as I held the phone above my face. My tired eyes scanned over to the time in the upper left hand corner of the screen. It was 5:15 am. I breathed in a deep breath before exhaling out of my nose.
Ugh...Eds..why don't you go to bed like normal humans? I thought.
Eddie, or Eds as I usually called him, was a big nerd who loved staying up late playing video games. I wasn't much into video games. The only game I actually wanted to play was Five Nights At Freddy's; but that was six years ago.
I hesitated on tapping on the message, but at the same time was curious to know why he wanted to text me so early in the morning? He had texted me before, but it was only to say "Good Morning" The other time was when he bought concert tickets for us to go see our favorite band. Either way, there was no telling what it was going to be.
I tapped on the message and read it.
Hey sweetie! I have a surprise for you!
I blinked in confusion and sat upright in my bed, resting my back against my propped up pillow. A surprise? I was not much into surprises. Some were fun, but surprises at five in the morning were a different thing. What kind of surprise was this that he needed to tell me at five in the morning? I tapped on it again and began to text to him.
What is this surprise? I wrote, then I pressed the arrow. The message sent. I hesitated on putting my phone back onto the dresser. Depending on how much he wanted to tell me, there was no point in putting the phone back in its usual place and falling back asleep. On top of that I was curious to know what it was. I let my phone rest in my hands on my lap. My eyes started to get heavy and I began to slowly drift back to sleep. Once I was beginning to feel comfortable, my phone vibrated in my hands, startling me. My heart skipped a beat as I opened my eyes.
I'll give you a hint. It's something for your birthday.
I sighed as I leaned my head upwards toward the ceiling. My birthday was three weeks away. On top of the surprises, I wasn't one for birthdays either, particularly mine. I didn't like the idea of being the center of attention and having to be the one to make all the decisions. I liked it when I was celebrating someone else's birthday. I leaned my head back down and reread the text before typing back to him.
My birthday is three weeks away, and I said that we weren't going to do anything for my birthday. I texted him.
The next text was seconds after mine.
I know, but you will love this.
One of my eyebrows went up quizzically as I stared down at the text. My mind began to go through all the things that I loved. After a while of pondering, I finally had to text him back. I needed to know what this surprise was.
What is it? Is it a TARDIS? I jokingly asked him.
While I waited for his response, I began to look around my room. My room was small and messy. Clothes were strewn on the ground, while others were hanging over my bed, as if they were holding on to dear life to stay on the bed. Sketchbooks sat in piles at the base of my dresser. Posters covered my walls, as well as the shelves of books opposite from my bed. The books were mainly fantasy and sci fi novels. The posters consisted of Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Dr. Who. Nightmare Before Christmas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jurassic Park, Invader Zim and a bunch of others that were overlapped with new posters over the years. The newest one was when I went to Comic Con last year. It was a Five Nights At Freddy's poster with Bonnie, Chica and Freddy.
You'll never guess. He finally wrote back.
No shit. I began to feel a little impatient, and tired. I now wished that I didn't texted him and waited till a much later time to ask him.
What is it? I asked again.
I waited, staring at the screen. I sighed, then yawned and began to feel really tired. It was now almost six am. I was exhausted in my boyfriend's little guessing game. I adjusted myself back into a laying position in my bed, pulling up the covers and falling back asleep.
The text came ten minutes later. I felt around for my phone on the bed and lifted it up to my face. Eds message was a link. I touched it with my index finger and watched as my phone opened the link. My screen instantly went black. Gradually, five words in bloody red font appeared:
Five Nights at Freddy's News:
A Five Night's At Freddy's fan made website all dedicated to Five Nights at Freddys. There was a bunch of them all over the Internet. I didn't really understand why people updated on what was going on in the world of FNAF. Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, has a website where fans could go check to see the new hint he had in store for us FNAF fans.
My eyes widened in shock as more words appeared. This time, eight words appeared below the first five, and they made my heart race. I had to keep rereading it to make sure I didn't mistaken it. No, I was right. I couldn't believe it. This had to be a fake. This had to be a fan made thing.
Scott Cawthon's Five Nights At Freddy's Diner Opening.
Below the headline was a small article:
Scott Cawthon, the creator of the games Five Nights at Freddys, 1,2,3,4, FNAF World, etc, has finally declared that he was going to create an actual Freddy Fazbear's Diner. Without telling anyone, and keeping it under wraps, he got volunteers to help him construct the building and build the animatronics to look just like the first FNAF game. No one knew about it till this year when an anonymous viewer checked out Google Maps and noticed a familiar logo of Freddy on the building. Talk of an actual FNAF pizzeria spread all across the internet. Months later, Scott finally posted up a picture of the construction site and the building and posted it onto his website.
I quickly went to Google and typed in Scott's website to see if this was legit. When the site came up, three words appeared: A FNAF Reality. Below, there was a picture of a diner in construction, surrounded by work trucks and construction machines. A sign with the words: Freddy Fazbear's diner was seen with an image of Freddy's face over the words were being lifted by a crane. Below it had almost the same exact words at the fan website had. My eyes widened in shock. Five Nights At Freddy's was coming to life.
I went back to my boyfriends message and saw that there was a new message waiting for me. I tapped it and read the message.
Cool huh? Shy and I thought it would be cool to go there for your birthday when it opens.
I blinked. Shy was in on this too?
Shy was my younger sister. Shy was just a nickname I gave her when we were little since she was a quiet kid. My boyfriend and my little sister weren't into FNAF as much as I was; but the idea of Scott wanting to bring the pizzeria to life was... My mind drew a blank on how I felt about the FNAF world coming to life. I guess to me it was both exciting, and not exciting. I loved FNAF, but not to where I wanted it to come to the real world. It was too much.
In the beginning, Five Nights at Freddy's was just a game. Then it became a series of games, a book, then a movie...now it was becoming a reality. I almost felt like I was being overwhelmed with FNAF. When I was younger and first learned about FNAF I would have been excited to see it become a reality. Now I didn't know what to think of it. It didn't have that same feeling, that same thrill anymore, like I did with many things. I guess it happens when you get older...That good feeling inside; like on Christmas when you just couldn't wait to open your presents from Santa, or on Halloween when you got to go out at night and get candy. It was like that.
I yawned in exhaustion and closed my eyes.
I'll worry about it more later, I thought as I drifted back to sleep...
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