Short Author's Note: This story is a work of fiction, the characters I create belong to me, and the plot all belongs to me, note I may not be one hundred percent realistic but hey that's what fiction is all about, and please note that I'm not trying to ruin Chuck E. Cheese or anything like that, just remember that this is fiction. Chuck E. Cheese Characters and"Munch's Make Believe Band" all songs mentioned and anything that has to do with a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant belong to CEC Entertainment, remember to review my story and tell me you're opinion, and now Chapter One.
"The night is calm it always is in June, especially on Sunday night." Thought sixteen-year-old James Conan as he was sitting on the bright red couch in the living room whilst watching TV. James always like to watch TV when he was bored, he was especially bored on this night. "Well, my parents will be home at ten-thirty and it's seven o'clock on the nose right now, Why couldn't they hire a babysitter to watch my little brother?" James thought to himself.
James was tasked with watching his younger brother Mike who was eight years old while his parents Diane and Matt Conan were going out for dinner. Then James heard footsteps coming from the stairs. James swiftly paused his television show and turned toward the stairs where he saw Mike on the stairs with his blonde hair, brown eyes, straight teeth and a height of four feet and ten inches he was also dressed in a blue Chuck. E Cheese shirt, and blue pants. "Hey, James" Mike spoke, "What do you want?" James replied. "Can you take me to Chuck E. Cheese?" Mike asked. James sighed.
James was about to say no but then he remembered that his parents gave him one hundred dollars in case he wanted to take Mike somewhere and he knew his brother really like going to Chuck E. Cheese since it was his favorite place to go, and he knew that his brother would give him a hard time if he said no. "Alright, I'll take you but let me put on my clothes."
James went upstairs to his room which contained a white dresser a brown desk, a High Definition Television, blue walls and a bed with green blankets. The room also had two windows with blinds shut. James opened up his dresser and put on a Black T-shirt since it was summer and the weather outside was seventy-five degrees even though it was seven in the afternoon, he also put on white shorts and black socks.
He walked into his brother's room. His brother's room looked identical to his own room except the walls were green, his brother's desk was white, his dresser was brown and the blanket on the bed was green which is where Mike was sitting. "Well come on, let's go before they close up for the night." Mike nodded and got up, James went into the kitchen to get his car keys for his car, grab his cell phone and grab his wallet he opened it and saw the one hundred dollars his father gave to him.
He felt someone tug on his shirt, he turned around to see his brother. Mike slowly gave him a hug. "Thank you, James." James was confused then James realized that Mike was thanking him for taking him to Chuck E. Cheese. James returned his brothers hug. "You're welcome."
They let go and walked to the front door. James and Mike put on their shoes. James wore green sneakers with white stripes, and Mike wore blue sneakers with green stripes. James opened the door and he and Mike walked out. James slowly shut the door and locked it. James and Mike both walked to the door of the car. Mike hopped in the back and James slowly got into the driver's seat. "Thank God I have my drivers license or else we wouldn't be going and Mike would be crying so damn loud that he would wake up the entire neighborhood." James thought to himself. James slowly turned on the car, put the car in reverse and backed out of the driveway.
He then put the car in drive and began to drive. He drove straight until he came to the end of his street which was Elm Street. "Same old town here in Livingston, New Jersey." James thought to himself. He looked then right put and then turned left. He drove straight for four minutes until he reached a red light. After five minutes of waiting, the light finally turned green, and James drove forward, then he saw Chuck E. Cheese and turned right and found a space to park the car.
They both got out and walked toward the entrance.
They opened the door and were met with the sound of music and kids having fun. "Hello, welcome to Chuck E. Cheese please roll up your sleeve please." Said a girl in a Chuck E. Cheese uniform. Mike and James nodded and rolled up their sleeves while she stamped the numbers on their arms. She then moved the red rope keeping them from entering out of the way and let them through. They walked in and saw the counter where they get their Play Pass and walked up to the counter.
James looked around to his left he saw tables where people can eat and the 1- Stage animatronic figures of Chuck E. Cheese, Helen Henny, Mr. Munch, Jasper T. Jowls and Pasqually E. Pieplate performing on stage for the kids. James looked to his right and saw the kids playing arcade games, and more tables he also saw a stairwell and elevator leading up to the second floor which had more games.
He was broke out of his daze when he heard a voice. "Welcome to Chuck E. Cheese how can I help you?" asked the employee. "I would like to have two play passes with forty points each," James replied. "Alright, that will be ten dollars." replied the employee. James pulled out his one hundred dollars and gave it to the employee. The employee gave James his change which was ninety dollars as well as gave him two play passes. "Thanks." Said, James, as he gave Mike his play pass and walked away.
"Alright, so James what do you wanna do?" Asked James with a smile on his face. "Can I have a pizza and a Coca-Cola and watch "Munch's Make Believe Band" perform on the stage. "Did Mom and Dad give you dinner before they went out?" Asked James. Mike shook his head as if he was saying "no." James sighed. "Alright what type of pizza do you want?" James asked. "I want a plain pizza," Mike replied. James nodded and walked up to where you order your pizza.
A chef walked up to them. "We would like a plain medium pizza, and two large cokes," James spoke. The waiter nodded and handed him a metal stand with a number on it the number was thirteen. "Put this on you're table that's how we know what you ordered and where you are sitting." The employee said. James nodded and Mike lead him over to a table that was the closest to the animatronics. They sat down and looked over at the stage where "Munch's Make Believe Band" was still performing "Out Of This World". Mike was clapping at them, James smiled. "At least he is having a hell of a good time so far."
The pizza finally came when the song was over. After the employee left Mike said, "Finally I am so hungry." "Me too," replied James. They both took a bite. James didn't like the pizza he thought it wasn't that good but okay. "What do you think of the pizza Mikey?" James asked. "I LOVE IT!" Mike said almost shouting. "Okay, geez I know you love this pizza but you don't have to shout," James said.
Mike nodded and continued eating the pizza and watching the animatronics. James turned his head to watch the animatronics keep performing but he saw that they weren't performing anymore they were still on, but they weren't performing. James always wondered why they kept the animatronics on even when they weren't singing a song for the kids. James shrugged it off and he and Mike continued eating their pizza.
Just when James was about to finish the last slice of pizza the animatronics started to perform again for the kids this time though they were performing a song called "Song Title". "They always perform weird songs, I guess I am always used to songs using profanity and stuff like that then songs being all cute and family-friendly." James thought to himself. That's when Mike pulled on James shirt. "Can we go play the arcade games now?" asked Mike with a smile. "Sure come on, let's do this." They both slowly got up to go play some arcade games.
"Look's like I win again James," Mike said happily. "I know that's the twelfth time you have beaten me at skeeball, let's play something else." Said, James. Mike agreed. "Yeah, we have like ten points left let's play the basketball game that's right next to us." James nodded and Mike followed him over to the basketball game. James scanned his play pass and the machine took away two points. James pressed the second player option. The basketballs came down and they both began to shoot.
At the end of the game James scored thirty points, whilst Mike scored thirty two points. "Looks like I beat you again James." Mike announced happily. James nodded. "Yeah I wish we could play more however the place is closing soon." Said James with a frown. "Awwwww." Replied Mike sadly. They began to walk down the stairs and walked towards the exit. "Hey James." Mike spoke. "What do you need." replied his brother. "I need to go to the bathroom." Mike said. James sighed. "Okay but be quick." Mike nodded and walked towards the bathroom. James looked at the show stage and saw the white curtains on the stage slowly start to come down and cover the animatronics. That's when his phone began to rang. James took his cellphone out of his pocket, and saw it was his friend David Snore calling him. He answered the phone.
Mike slowly walked into the bathroom and saw that no one is in their. He walked over to the urinal, pulled down his pants and underwear and urinated. After he was done urinating he pulled up his underwear than his pants and walked over to the sink to wash his hands. After he washed his hands he went over to the paper towel dispenser and dried off his hands. He then slowly walked out of the bathroom.
When Mike walked out he saw James talking on the phone. Mike slowly walked over to his brother until he noticed that near the animatronics show stage there was a door marked "Employee's Only" Mike always wondered what the heck was in there, and always knew that he wasn't allowed in the backroom. Mike being curious walked over to the door, put his hand on the round doorknob and turned it and to his shock the door was unlocked.
He slowly opened the door and looked behind him, he saw that James wasn't facing him and was looking the other way talking to his friend on his cell phone. "James won't know I'll be gone for a second." Mike thought to himself as he walked into the room shutting the door behind him when he turned around to see what was in the room he saw that it was nothing more but the Janitors Closet, Mike was disappointed. "I thought this was going to be something cool not something crappy like this." Mike thought to himself.
Mike walked around the room trying to find something interesting, then when he leaned against the wall he felt something being pressed. He moved away from the wall and saw that one of the tiles were pushed in and saw that one of the walls were moving out of the way. "A secret door, Oh my god I found a secret door," Mike said to himself.
Mike slowly walked towards the opening and saw a flight of stairs, he slowly began to walk down the stairwell very slowly. When he reached the bottom of the stairwell he saw an empty room with a paper in the center of the room just sitting there. Mike walked up to it and read it to himself. "As we all know our pizza sucks, but we can change that, as long as you follow the directions below, to make some new and improved pizza."
Mike didn't know what they were talking about, "What do they mean the pizza sucks?" Mike thought to himself. "To me, the pizza is amazing, to my brother well... he isn't a big fan of it... wait there's more to this." Just as Mike was about to read the second paragraph of what the paper said, he felt something very sharp hit him in the head, he fell down, he felt his own blood trickling down his head, he also saw the world around him slowly fading away. Just before everything faded he saw a blurry figure in front of him saying, "Now you know, but those who know our secret must not live anymore."
"Alright man I got to go bye." James hung up. "Man Mike is taking a hell of a lot of time in the bathroom, I should check on him." James walked into the bathroom. "Hey, Mike you in here buddy?" James shouted. James was shocked when he didn't hear an "I'm coming." or a "James, let me take my time." When James walked in he didn't see a single person in their. "Mike?" James asked getting very nervous now. "Oh crap, he isn't in here, oh crap my parents are gonna ground me for so damn long." James thought to himself, then an idea hit him in the head.
"Wait, I was on my phone maybe he is somewhere in the restaurant." He opened the door and walked around the first floor of the Chuck E. Cheese and he didn't Mike anywhere. James getting worried quickly went up to the second floor to look for Mike and saw that Mike wasn't upstairs either. "Oh no, where is he I have to look harder." Just when he was about to keep looking he heard an announcement on the loudspeaker.
"May we have your attention, please? Chuck E. Cheese is now closed and everyone must leave thank you." The announcement went off. James sighed and walked downstairs, then another idea hit him in the head like fifty bricks. "Wait he must waiting for me outside in the car." James thought to himself.
Just as he was going outside he walked up to a staff member and said "Um sir, I lost my brother can you go look for him, he is wearing a blue Chuck E. Cheese shirt and blue pants, he is also wearing blue sneakers." James said to the staff member. The staff member sighed, "The place is closing and I want to go home, but I will look for you're brother." The staff member said walking away.
James sighed, "I hope he finds him, I couldn't find him... what if he was taken away? Oh crap, what if someone came up to him in the bathroom and took him away while I was talking on the phone, what if..." He was snapped out of his thoughts when the employee talking to him. "Um, sir?" James looked at him. "Unfortunately we couldn't find him maybe he's outside near you're car, or in the parking lot." The employee suggested.
James sighed and walked outside, "MIKE WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" James practically shouted at the top of his lungs. He began running around the parking lot shouting at the top his lungs, "WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" After ten minutes of shouting James gave up and walked towards his car, tears rolling down his cheeks like a waterfall.
When he got to his car he looked around a little bit hoping to see Mike near his car, waiting to go home. James didn't see him, he slowly unlocked the car and got into the driver's seat he turned on the car and saw the time it was nine thirty in the afternoon. James took out his cellphone and dialed his mom's phone, after three rings he heard his mom's voice. "Hey Mom, I have some bad news." James began his voice beginning to crack as he talked.
"What's up?" His mom asked her voice so fluffy and innocent. "Her voice won't be so innocent when I tell her." James thought to himself. "I took Mike to Chuck E. Cheese sometime later he had to go to the bathroom and my friend called, when I was done talking to him I went into the bathroom and he wasn't there, I looked around for him and I still couldn't find him, then when the place was closed I asked a staff member to look around and he when he was done looking he said he couldn't find Mike, then I went outside to look for him shouting his name at the top of my lungs, and he never came, and I don't know where the hell he is and what the hell happened to him." James ended in sobs.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN, YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE HELL YOU'RE BROTHER IS?" His mother practically screamed into the phone. "Look don't tell me now, tell what happened when me and you're father get home." "Okay Mom, bye," James said and hung up.
James put the car in drive and slowly drove out of the parking lot, still crying. He drove out into the street where he met a red light, after one minute the light turned green and James drove on until he saw the "Elm Street" sign he turned right and kept driving until he pulled up to his house where he saw his parent's car in the driveway. James sighed, he didn't want to see his parents right now since he knew that they would be pissed off at him. James pulled his car into the driveway, turned off the car, and walked into the house.
When he walked in he saw his parents sitting down at the dinner table in the kitchen. "James please come here we have much to discuss." James walked over to the table and sat down his parents looked pissed off at him. "Now can you explain to me and you're father what happened." His mother said her voice calm as the wind.
James sighed, "Well it all started when I took my brother to Chuck E. Cheese, he wanted to go and I decided to take him, when we got there we went in bough two play passes with thirty points and ordered a pizza and a soda, and sat down near the animatronic band."
James looked up seeing his parents nodding. "Keep going." His father said. "Then when we were done eating our pizza and drinking our soda, we got up and decided to play the arcade games we played for a good two hours we were about to leave the restaurant when Mike said he had to use the bathroom, I let him use the bathroom and then I got a call from my friend David." James stopped taking a breath and then began talking again his voice starting to crack as he spoke.
"So I talked to him and when I was done I went into the bathroom to check on Mike to see if he was done since he was in there for five minutes, I walk in and call his name, he doesn't respond and I don't see anyone in their, I panic and begin walking around the restaurant too see If I can find my brother, then they announced they were closing and I had to leave, I go up to an employee and ask him to look around, they look around and they tell me he couldn't find him, then I think that he must be waiting for me near my car, I call his name at the top of my lungs and I don't hear him, I had to leave I couldn't find him, that's what happened."
When James finished he was sobbing with tears rolling down his face like a waterfall. Diane and Matt look at each other for a few moments and then turn back to James. "James, we know that you were talking to you're friend and weren't paying attention, however, did you feel anyone tug on your shirt at all when you were talking?" Matt asked his son. James only shook his head as if he was saying "no."
His parents sighed tears beginning to leak out of their eyes, "James, we are all going to do our best to get your brother back, we will do anything possible to find him, but for now you aren't grounded it isn't you're fault that you didn't see your brother wander off, we are disappointed that you weren't paying attention, but that doesn't matter we need to find him." James mother said sobbing.
James nodded. "You can go to bed, for now, James we will discuss what we will do in the morning." James nodded again, and walked upstairs into his room, took off his shirt, pants, socks, and underwear, put on his lounging clothes and new underwear, bring his old clothes to the bathroom dropped it into the hamper. He grabbed his toothbrush and toothpaste and began to brush his teeth when he was done, he spit out the toothpaste and looked in the mirror. He saw his dark brown hair, white skin, brown eyes, a height of five feet and eleven inches and straight teeth.
James walked into his room and turned off the lights, he went to his bed and went to sleep where he dreamed that his brother was alive and that they were playing basketball together, and having fun with their friends.
