Chapter Two: Survive The Night
Through my ears I heard the wind howling that stopped once I slowed down my speed on my bike. Arriving at my destination, I got off my bike holding one of the handles with both of my hands. I started to stare at the building in front of me, covered in darkness and shadows. I shuddered at the possibility that this could be the place of my nightmares. I guided my bike closer to one of the building walls, then leaning my bike against it silently, I noticed a man who looked gruff and in his mid-forties talking, or more like screaming at the phone. He didn't seem to notice me standing there, so I couldn't help myself but to hear what he was yelling about. "What do you mean you quit? Hmph! I should've fired you long time ago when I thought you had tampered with the animatronics!" There was a short pause before I heard the other person on the line, muffled before the man started yelling again. "Well it was good that I put that help wanted sign up in the newspapers and here! Now goodbye! I'll find someone better to hire then!" And that was when the man put his phone down in frustration murmuring some things.
After knowing that the man would now be listening, but still infuriated I took this as an opportunity. I took a step forward, clearing my throat, and he snapped his head towards me. I couldn't help myself but to fear him a bit. "Now who are you?" He asked me, looking me up and down in disgust. "T-The name's Katherine... Katherine Parks... I was looking for the manager of this place, and I couldn't help myself but to eavesdrop on your conversation when I noticed you," I started out my voice quiet and hoarse, seeing that he was getting impatient, but his face lightened up a bit as if he knew where I was going at. "I'd like to sign up for the night shift, if it's available," I could see the man laugh and his face flushed with relief. "Well why didn't you say so sooner? I'm the owner of this pizzeria! Come on in Katherine, you got the job," He unlocked the door, while I stopped in my tracks for a few seconds wondering if it's possible just getting a job, just like like that. "Call me Kate..." I murmured under my breath as I followed him into the building soon after.
Once, I entered the building I lost track of the manager and I almost freaked out, when he came back holding a uniform in his hands, appearing out of no where. "Here's your uniform, change quickly in one of the bathrooms, and head to your office down either hall! C'mon now we don't have much time, and good luck!" The manager handed me the uniform, murmuring another phrase I couldn't make out, and was about to leave before I cried out, "Wait!" He then turned around and looked at me in confusion, as if he knew nothing about what was going on. "What about the clothes I change out of? And what when does my shift stop?" I was about to ramble on to ask him all these questions before he interrupted me and only answered my two questions. "Just leave it in your office you can take it home with you after your shift ends at six in the morning," He replied simply before heading out the doors and locking me inside, raising my suspicions about this place, but giving me a few minutes to inspect the place thoroughly.
The restaurant couldn't have been any more creepier if it wasn't for the flickering lights and the three animatronics I saw looking like they would come alive at a sudden point in time, on stage. I looked at the neatly folded uniform in my hands, held it close to my chest and searched for a bathroom I could change in. After going in the bathroom, I soon came out making sure to look at myself in the mirror, telling myself I look alright, before exiting the bathroom. I tightly held the clothes I changed out of and started to pace down, if I recall down one of the corridors that led to a brightly lit security office. I stepped inside, carelessly dropping the clothes onto the floor, forgetting about them soon after, then looking around, my eyes darting at a clock, coming with a tablet. "Not too shabby," I thought to myself as I quickly glanced at the time, not picking up the tablet seeing it had just turned twelve. I turned around to the chair tracing my fingers back and forth over the brim of the chair. I glanced one last time at the tablet, soon deciding it was important, and I picked it up, stepping back, then plopping down on the chair. That was when I had jumped, almost dropping the tablet and falling off the chair, to an annoying, disturbingly loud, phone located in my office.
"Damn phone," I muttered under my breath, as I tried to ignore it the best I could until I picked it up, before the phone almost made me go into a tantrum of rage. I barely listened to anything he said, something about lights, doors, and power? I shrugged it off picking up the tablet, looking through each and every camera in order to familiarize myself with what I had to deal with, but the camera I checked most was the main stage. Something about it was off, and I couldn't quite place my finger on it, only that it felt like all three of the animatronics were looking at me through the corner of their eyes. This made me feel uneasy, but after a couple minutes of going back and forth I put the tablet down before waiting out the next two hours that soon followed with the real terror, excitement, and nightmares that would all come true in just one night.
The tablet suddenly made a weird noise that lasted for a few seconds, jolting me up in my seat, snatching it. I looked at the main stage to see that the goddamn purple bunny had gone anywhere, but the place I had wished for him to stay at. Sitting up and getting paranoid, I started switching through all the cameras before I stopped at one of the halls. I narrowed my eyes to try and see through the hall's dim lighting, only to know that it was coming closer to my office. That fucking rabbit. The camera went haywire again, this making me panic more and more as each second ticked by. I started to hear noises, like pots banging against each other in the kitchen I assumed. The rabbit went into the storage room, while the chicken... Wait where was the chicken? Sooner or later I had realized the chicken had only gone to the kitchen, staying far away from me as I hoped it would stay there.
With the chicken as my distraction I checked the storage room to see if the bunny was still there. It had completely vanished. My fingers raced to check each and every camera to confirm the rabbit's location. No where, the rabbit was no where, which mean't only one available option was that it had gotten into my office without my knowing. I started trembling in fear as I slowly put down the tablet onto my lap. Nothing yet. All the sound I could hear was how fast my heart was racing inside my body. I scanned the room once, no presence yet, or so I thought. The pressure, fear, and the feeling of death was heating up my head, making me all ready wish I had just fainted right here, then and now.
A part of me told me that I could still make it, there was still a chance. The other part of me thought that I was dead, that it was all over for me. Shaking, I reached my petite hand towards the left light switch, putting slight pressure on it, making the hall flicker with bright light. I let out a breath of relief as I pressed the button again to turn it off. But if the rabbit wasn't in my office, in the doorway, or in any of the cameras, then where was he? The answer was right behind me. I regretted it as soon as I looked behind my shoulder, it screeching at me, making me fall off my chair, tossing my tablet in the air, in the process. Falling, and falling until my head hit the concrete, knocking me out unconscious making the world around me go black.
Some of you must me annoyed with me I know I know, why the cliffhangers, some of you may ask. I just love cliffhangers because you get to think what will happen next! Uh well I guess to the next chapter I shall work on now! Peace out.
