A new restaurant had just recently opened; it was called Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. It seemed that they were looking for waiters. I read through the advert in the newspaper, it didn't give too much info other than it was a children's restaurant and had only opened last week and due to unforeseen success it was understaffed for the numerous children that visited daily.
I decided then and there that I should apply for the job, after having been let go at the last restaurant I worked at about a week ago due to lack of customers. I think it had closed down a few days ago. After having a rather quick interview with the owner the next day, I was hired. He showed me around and let me introduce myself to the animatronics. "H-Hi I'm Naomi, I look forward to working with you guys!" I said somewhat awkwardly to the animatronics. They just stared at me before they introduced themselves.
"Hey there! I'm Freddy Fazbear and these are my friends Bonnie-" the brown bear animatronic said as he gestured to the purple bunny animatronic who waved at me, "and this is Chica." He said referring to the yellow… is it a duck or chicken? I couldn't really tell. The boss dragged me to the Pirate Cove as he called it, saying that there was one more animatronic I had to meet.
He pulled back the purple starry curtain from the stage to reveal, a pirate fox animatronic. He switched on as soon as the curtains had parted and looked at me with a glowing amber coloured eye, he had an eye patch on his left eye and I noticed he also had a hook instead of a hand.
"Yaar. Hello there lass" He said looking at me; I couldn't help but smile at his accent. "I be Cap'ain Foxy, and what might ye pretty lasses name be?"
"I'm Naomi" I said grinning. I then heard the sound of the doors opening and children running in shouting.
"I guess I should get to work now" I said as I give a shy wave to him and turn and head towards the kitchen. I spent the rest of the day rushed off my feet delivering pizza to hungry children and wiping down tables while dodging the children who were running around the pizzeria. I smiled, hearing the laughter of children and seeing their smiles, I could get used to this job.
During my break I sat in the kitchen eating some pizza, sure it wasn't the healthiest thing I could be eating, but the smell was too tempting. It was every bit as delicious as it was greasy. My break was short lived as I was called out to serve some people. I grabbed the pizzas and weaved my way between children before delivering it to some hungry customers. Freddy and his friends had just finished performing and had now hopped off the stage and were interacting with the children.
I watched as Freddy hugged a young girl before I snapped out of my trance and went to wipe down a recently vacated table. I felt something tug on my skirt and looked down to see a small girl with pigtails looking up at me. I kneeled and looked into her bright green eyes. "Hello, what seems to be wrong?" I asked her.
She glanced at the floor before she replied. "I wanted to go see Bonnie, but the other kids keep pushing me away" she said looking like she was about to cry.
"Don't worry I'll introduce you to him!" I told her with a smile. She smiled back at me and held to my hand. "I'm Lucy by the way!" she said as I guided her towards the purple animatronic. I glanced down at her and replied "Nice to meet you Lucy, my names Naomi."
Bonnie was being swamped by children; I picked Lucy up so she could see him properly. Bonnie noticed that I was standing near him and he looked at me. He blinked at me as I introduced Lucy to him. "Hey there Bonnie! I have someone who would like to meet you!" Lucy shyly looked at him and waved. "I'm Lucy" she mumbled to him. "It's wonderful to meet you Lucy!" Bonnie replied, seeing that I was needed to clean up some soda that a kid had spilled I carefully passed Lucy to Bonnie.
She beamed at him and giggled. I waved goodbye to her as I went to get a mop to clean the spill. I didn't get to see Lucy again as I was so busy keeping everyone happy while cleaning up the occasional mess. I was nearing five o'clock when I felt a familiar tug on my skirt. It was Lucy, she smiled at me and handed me a picture before she rushed off to go home with her mum.
I glanced at the picture, it was of Bonnie, Lucy and I and underneath she had scrawled: My Best Day Ever!
I smiled and carefully tucked the picture into my pocket as I continued to clean the tables and take orders. There was a sudden rush of children heading towards Pirate Cove and the dining area was empty except for a few adults. After cleaning the last of the tables I decided to head towards Pirate Cove myself to see what was happening.
Captain Foxy was entertaining the children with tales of adventure. He was telling them about the time he was stuck on a desert island after his ship had hit some rocks. The kids were enraptured and I swore that when he was looking around at the kids that he stopped and looked at me before winking at me and continuing on with his story.
Was an animatronic flirting with me? I thought as I left Pirate Cove. I just brushed it aside as I went to check on some parents who were sitting in the dining area. Not paying to much attention to where I was going I stumbled into Bonnie who was wandering around. I fell backwards and landed on my butt. He had turned around and looked at me.
"Sorry! I was paying attention to where I was walking" I apologised as he offered his hand to pull me up. He just looked at me and tilted his head as if confused as to how I had managed to walk into him. It's not like he wasn't obvious, he IS a giant purple bunny after all.
"It's alright, as long as you didn't hurt yourself it doesn't matter" he replied once I was standing. I laughed as I rubbed the back of me head nervously. "Trust me to zone out while walking and wind up walking into someone." I glanced around and noticed that Chica was no longer on the stage and Freddy was pacing on the stage. "You dropped something" Bonnie said as I brought my attention back to him.
"Oh! So I did!" I looked at what he was gesturing to. It was the drawing that Lucy had given to me. I picked it up and noticed that he was looking at it intently, like he was curious as to what it was. I smiled and showed it to him, "it's a picture that Lucy, one of the kids drew for me." He just blinked. The drawing was of me holding Lucy and Bonnie was standing next to me holding my hand.
"Are we holding hands?" he asked looking at it. "Uhhh, it seems we are" I replied. "I like it!" he said grinning. Before I could say anything else a swarm of children rushed out Pirates Cove and dragged Bonnie away from me. He looked back at me and I giggled as he was swamped by kids trying to get his attention. I headed towards the kitchen to see if there was any food needing to be taken out. Only to meet Chica who was being chased out of the kitchen.
"Oh! Hey Naomi!" she said hugging me. Unsure of what to do, I just somewhat hugged her back, which was hard because my arms couldn't fit around her. "Hey Chica" I mumbled as I was pressed to her stomach. She smelt like pizza. She let go of me and grinned. "How's your first day going?" she asked. "Pretty well, I think I'm going to enjoy working here" I replied. "That's great to hear! Uh oh, I think I have to go perform now, I'll talk to you later!" she said as she rushed towards the stage. Freddy was tapping his foot and seemed annoyed that Chica was late.
Soon after their performance it was closing time, I then cleaned the tables and started mopping the floor as the boss came to talk to me. "Hey Naomi, if it isn't too much of a hassle would you mind staying late and giving this to the night guard" he said handing me some keys. "Sure thing!" I replied to him with a smile. He looked at me relieved, "thanks, I would do it myself but it seems that something has come up that requires my attention" He said running a hand through his somewhat thinning hair. He said goodbye and left, shortly after the rest of the staff left and I was all alone in the building. (Except for the animatronics)
I carried on mopping wondering how long I would have to wait till the night guard came. I hummed as I mopped and after awhile I started dancing with the mop. Suddenly I heard a laugh; I glanced around before realising it was Freddy. Blushing I glanced downwards and carried on moping. "Sorry" He said. I looked at him confused. "I didn't mean to laugh at you; it's just that when you started dancing with the mop I couldn't help it. It was too cute." I blinked before realising what he had said and then blushing even more.
Luckily the night guard had finally shown up, I quickly put away the mop and cleaning supplies before handing him the keys and leaving with only a quiet goodbye. Was it just my imagination or did that just really happen? I wondered as I fumbled with my keys before I managed to unlock my car. I glanced in my rear view mirror and noticed that he was watching me still. I pretended I didn't see that as I drove off.
I got home and it was now 11pm, sighing I heated up some leftover lasagne and ate that for dinner before I went straight to bed. Today had been tiring but it was worth it. I set my alarm for 9am before I drifted off to sleep.