A FNAF Reality
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Chapter 3: Birthday
Three weeks later...
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Ironically, on the day of my birthday, Freddy Fazbear's officially opened. Scott Cawthon wasn't specific when he was going to open the pizzeria. Everyone was positive that it was going to open at least a week after my birthday since that was the day when the first Five Nights At Freddy's game came out; but of course, knowing Scott, he always got things out before the scheduled date. It didn't matter really, Scott didn't really tell or hint to his fans that he was making a Freddy's. Just like when his book, The Silver Eyes came out. No one knew about it till it was on his page.
My heart pounded so much, my ribcage was beginning to ache. I laid in my bed, facing up towards the ceiling. It was six am and I couldn't sleep. I tried picturing how the day was going to be like. Over and over flowed so many possible things that might happen. We could get lost, stuck in traffic, there could be a huge crowd of people blocking the way in tents and sleeping bags outside.
Of course I was worrying about all the negative things. I needed to start thinking positive. Granted there was going to be a lot of people from all over wanting to come and see the diner. Will they have to split us ino groups to go in? At the sound of it, it almost made it like it was going to be more of a walk through than an actual restaurant you can sit and eat pizza.
My thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a buzz. I turned my head to my dresser. A small green light blinked from my charged phone. I reached over and grabbed it. I laid back sunny side up and checked my phone. It was a message from Eddie.
Happy Birthday sweetie!
I smiled at the text. With that, I answered back to it.
Thank you Eds; I wrote back to him.
You excited? He asked back, seconds after mine.
I exhaled out of my mouth. A lot more than I was when I first heard about the news. Now it was finally opening. I smiled again and moved my thumbs over the small keypad, tapping on the letters.
Yes! I am very excited.
I placed my phone down on my chest and closed my eyes for a moment. I still couldn't believe it was actually happening. Even now, it still felt all so unreal. For the last couple of weeks I couldn't stop looking up more information about the pizzeria. I found out where it was located. The pizzeria was located on the outskirts, settled in an opening in the middle of the woods. Trees were cut down around it for the parking lot. I hoped there was going to be enough places to park since there was going to be a ton of people there.
My phone suddenly vibrated, causing my chest to blink green. I lifted my phone up and looked down at the message. Eddie sent me a gif of Kermit flailing his arms in the air with the words: Yaaaay! in big letters. I laughed out loud, then quickly covered my mouth. My parents and sister were still sleeping. I blushed a bit and answered back to his little gif. Eddie sent a smiley face back, soon followed by another message:
What time do you want me to come over?
I checked the time on my phone. It was almost six thirty. I thought for a moment. My parents already knew Eddie, Shy and I were going to go to the new FNAF pizzeria and were ok with it; but they didn't like having Eddie over so early.
Uh...I don't know. My family is still asleep, I wrote back to him. Then I quickly wrote another message: How about eight? My family usually wakes up early.
Eddie didn't respond, so I decided to get up to take a shower. I threw the sheets off of my body and got up. I walked to my drawers in the dim darkness to my drawers. Bits of sunlight peeked around the edges of my blinds so I could see what I was picking out. I grabbed my Bonnie shirt and a pair of purple pants.
I placed the articles of clothing on my bed before going down on my hands and knees to look under my bed for my black sneakers. When I found them, I grabbed my clothes and walked out of my room to the bathroom.
I took off my pajamas and got into the shower.
Once I was done I turned the water off, then stepped out and dried myself off. I changed into my clothes and went to the kitchen to eat some breakfast. I didn't bother turning the lights on because my eyes were still adjusting. I opened the wooden cabinet for a bowl. Suddenly, something dark fell out from it. I gasped and jumped back, thinking that it was a huge spider or a rat. The object clattered to the floor and stayed still. I squinted as I bent down to look at it properly. It was a small wrapped present. The wrapping was sky blue with colorful balloons and a red bow on top.
"Happy Birthday!" Shy said, appearing at the kitchen door. She turned on the kitchen lights. I winced and placed my hand in front of my face. Shy had woken up early to do this, I could tell. She wore her tight black jeans and a Batman shirt on. Her blonde hair was combed and had her grey and white shoes on.
Shy came up and picked up the present that nearly gave me a heart attack. "Here you go. This is from me," she told me. I gave her a look before accepting it. I looked down at the tag: To Ren, From Shy. I opened the gift.
Inside was a mini plushie of Bonnie. It was around two to three inches tall with purple fur and a small red bow tie and plastic guitar. I smiled down at it before turning to look up at my younger sister. "This is so cool! thanks!" I told her. Shy beamed. "I saw it at the mall a couple days ago. I asked mom to ask the guy there if they had any Bonnies. They mostly had Chica and Foxy," she told me. I smiled again and placed the small plush toy into my pocket. "Thank you. I really love it."
Just then my mom came in. She was a couple inches taller than me with dark brown hair and brown eyes. Some people say that I look like her, but I don't see how. My face was more round, whereas for hers, it was thin and narrow.
"Happy Birthday!" she said as she wrapped her arms around me. I hugged her back. Then my mom looked at me and placed her hand on top of my head. "Wow! twenty years old! How does it feel?" she asked me. I smirked, "I feel old," I told her. She laughed and handed me a small birthday bag with tissue paper sticking out of it. "Hope you like it," she said.
I pulled out the pale, pastel tissue paper and peered into the bag. Inside was a rolled up black shirt. Once I pulled it out, it unraveled and revealed the words: Fazbear Night Security on the right side of the shirt in white letters. I turned it over and it showed Freddy and the gang in a faded, old fashioned, worn in look. I grinned excitedly. "Awesome! I'm going to wear it right now!" I said. I hugged my mom and thanked her before running to my room. I changed into my new shirt and ripped off the tag.
When I was done, I checked my phone on my dresser. It was already seven. Eddie's response waited. I pressed it and checked it. He agreed to coming over at eight. I placed my phone down and went back to the kitchen where my sister and mom still were. Shy had got herself a bowl of cereal and was eating at the table. My mom was making eggs and bacon. "Hey, birthday girl. Would you like some bacon and eggs?" she asked me. My mom always made me bacon and eggs on special occasions.
"Yes, please," I said as I sat down next to Shy. Shy ate her cereal in silence. I pulled out the small plushie she gave me and looked down at it. The face of the Bonnie plushie looked a little off set and squished. It didn't really look like Bonnie. It looked like it would have passed as a Springtrap than Bonnie, but I didn't mind. Bonnie was my favorite animatronic, as well as Springtrap. The Marionette was starting to become my favorite as well.
"You like it?" Shy asked me. I looked up. "Hm? The Bonnie?" I asked her. Shy nodded. I nodded as well. "Yes. I really do. I love Bonnie," I responded, smiling. Shy nodded. "Good," and she went back to eating her cereal. I was used to her short talk.
My mom came out from the kitchen with a steaming plate of fresh, golden scrambled eggs and mouthwatering, red crispy bacon. I grinned excitedly and clapped my hands like a little child. I picked up my fork and dug in. "Thank you, mom," I said with a mouthful of eggs. My mom smiled and went back into the kitchen to make her breakfast.
Once I was done, I left to go and finish getting ready. I thanked my family again and left to my room.
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The doorbell rang a couple minutes after eight. Sheeba barked and came up to the door. I walked around her, opened the door and found Eddie standing on the welcome mat with a present in his hands. "Hi. Happy birthday, dear," he said, opening his arms for a hug. I smiled and hugged him. "Hi, Eds," I said. Eddie gave me a kiss on the cheek before moving away from me and handing me my gift. "Here you go," he said, smiling. He stopped when he felt Sheeba sniffing his shoes. "Hi, Sheeba, can you please stop sniffing my shoes?" he asked politely.
His face was unshaven, but I truthfully liked it when he didn't shave. He wore his usual black sweater, blue jeans and black shoes, but today he wore a tie. It was a black one with little pixelated images of Space invaders on it. I noticed it when I looked back up at him. "What's the tie for?" I asked, holding his gift in my hands.
He looked away from my dog and looked down at the tie. He fingered it before looking back at me. "Today is your birthday, I wanted to wear it for the occasion," he said. I smiled, thinking it was quite cute. I thanked him and gave him a kiss on the lips before closing the front door and inviting him in to sit down. Eddie didn't sit and just stood. Sheeba finally left him alone and disappeared into the other room.
Shy was already done with her food and was running to her room to get her messenger bag. I already had grabbed mine. My mom had left to the store. My dad was now in the kitchen and was making his breakfast. My dad and I both had greenish colored eyes and dark brown hair. He was a couple inches taller than me as well.
He said hi to Eddie and began to start up a short conversation with him. I sat down at the table and opened my present from Eds. It was a dark purple hoodie. It had a couple lines around the arms to look like the joints. The front was light purple with a red bow tie, and the hood had little purple bunny ears. My eyes widened in excitement. "Oh wow! this is so cool! Thank you Eds!" I said, hugging him.
Eddie smiled and hugged me back. "So are you and your sister ready to go?" he asked. I nodded as I slipped the sweater on. "Where did you find this?" I asked him, looking down at it. Eds smirked. "Online. Where else? And I remembered which character you liked." I smiled and kissed his cheek. "Thank you."
Then Shy came into the room with a red Mario looking cap on her head and her Legend of Zelda messenger bag. "Ready," she declared. She looked at my Bonnie hoodie, then silently nodded her head in approval. I smirked and pulled the hood up over my head.
Eds grinned and flicked one of the purple ears. "Cools, let's head out.," and started to turn towards the front door. I did the same and said goodbye to my dad. Shy followed right behind and all three of us walked single file out the door.
Once we were out, I checked to make sure I had my phone in my pants, pulled my keys out and locked the front door. All three of us walked down the stone steps and across the green lawn to Eddie's car parked in front of the curb.
It was a steel grey colored Nissan. Eddie pressed the button and unlocked the doors.
All three of us piled in to Eddie's grey Nissan. I got into the passenger side, while my sister got into the back behind my seat. Eddie got into the driver's side and began to put on his seatbelt. "Oh, watch your feet, Shy...I haven't cleaned my car out," he admitted.
My sister made a grunt. "I noticed," she said as she adjusted herself in the back. Eddie's car was like his second home. He had his crumpled up work clothes in the back, along with his recently bought comic books, fast food wrappers, empty soda cans, and his black unwashed beanie.
In some cases, I wished that I offered to drive, but my vehicle was a royal blue S-ten pick up truck with only the driver seat and the passenger seat. I didn't have a third seat, and even if I did, the seat would be squished behind the passenger seat, leaving no room for the third person to move.
Eddie apologized again as he started his car. "I promise I'll clean my car when we get back," he said. I rolled my eyes but didn't say anything as I put on my seat belt. Shy did the same. Eddie took out his electric blue phone out of his baggy jeans and placed it on his phone holder attached to his dashboard. He tapped in the location of the pizzeria and soon had the directions.
"Ok here we go!" he said, punching on the gas, driving down the street. I smiled as I turned and looked out the window.
When we got to the stop sign at the end of the street, Eddie played with his phone again and got some music playing. His playlist had a couple bands I was unfamiliar with, except for Muse. We both enjoyed a couple of their songs. He played one of my favorites just as we started to go again.
All three of us were silent as the music played. Outside, houses and trees passed by us till we got to where the houses stopped and the stores and fast food restaurants began. Eddie turned on his right turn signal and got into the right hand turn lane. A minute later, we were turning and heading towards the freeway. In the mornings, the freeway was usually very clear with no traffic, so it was perfect. Butterflies fluttered in my stomach as Eddie began to step a little more on the gas and head onto the freeway.
The song ended and another song came on. I fiddled with the Bonnie plushie in my hands.; anxious for what would happen at the pizzeria. The ride was smooth and quiet. No one had really anything to say. I turned around to see how my sister was doing in the back. She said that she was doing fine. I nodded then turned back. Finally, Eddie spoke.
"Are you doing ok, Ren?" Eddie asked. I nodded my head. "Yes, why?" I asked. Eddie shrugged. "You seem nervous," he pointed out. I smiled a small smile and shook my head. "No. I'm not nervous," I said, but in truth, I think I really was. It made me a little uneasy.
I knew there was going to be a bunch of people there. I never liked going to places with a hoard of people. On top of that, the idea of a bunch of people inside a small restaurant made me feel uneasy since I was claustrophobic. Ever since I was little I never liked being stuck in small places. I had a bad experience when I was nine or ten. I got squished in between a crowd of people at Disneyland and started to cry.
I shook the horrible memory out of my mind and trembled a bit. Eddie noticed and touched my hand on my lap. "You allright?" he asked. I nodded and adjusted my glasses on my face. "Yeah...I'm ok," I said, then looked out the window to forget about it.
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Soon we were close to the pizzeria. Eddie had gotten off the freeway and was now in a strange and unfamiliar place. The buildings, neighborhoods and stores were gone and the place was dotted with trees a few houses and rolling hills. Eddie checked his phone on the dashboard and turned right off the road and onto a beaten dirt road.
I looked outside as the skies began to become infested with heavy grey colored clouds. "Are you sure this is the right way?" I asked. Eddie nodded his head. "Yep. This is the way...don't know why they would build the pizzeria out in the middle of nowhere," he said as he followed down the beaten dirt road.
As we followed down, we came upon a couple small old buildings. Sitting to the right and left of the narrow road was a restaurant, a post office, a general store, a fire department and a school that read Silver Rim Canyon Middle school. The buildings looked very worn down and the trees looked like they were beginning to take over; wrapping their roots and limbs around the buildings.
The town looked so old and so isolated. Everything looked like that time had stopped, stuck in its own age. The road began to wind as the hills rose and fell around us. Tree branches interlaced above us, not allowing any sunlight through. The houses appeared and disappeared around every corner. They were small and cottage like; blending in and being part of the forest.
The houses were thatch roofed and stones decorated the outside. Wind chimes made of sticks, stones and colorful broken glass swayed gently from the windows. Dogs barked from inside wind worn wooden fences. We crossed over a small bridge where a small thin river flowed through the place. Glass beads clacked gently against each other from the tree branches where they were strung.
The place felt both gypsy and whimsical. Almost like a hermit village. I checked my phone but saw that I had no reception. Soon the dirt road straightened out and the trees above opened up. The cloud appeared again and soon little droplets of rain began lightly tapping on the windshield. The place opened up into a marshy meadow like place with emerald green pine trees clustered here and there. Soon the road began to cuve a bit and soon a new building appeared.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
"There it is," Shy blurted out.
I stared at it in shock. It really was there.
The pizzeria felt very much out of place, but at the same time, the building looked worn in, as if it had been there for years. Eddie followed along the dirt road along to where the parking lot was. The parking lot was enormous, and already looked like it was packed with cars. People in bright orange vests with Freddy's face on them directed us further down the road. Finally, we got to an opening area where there were a bunch of empty parking spaces. Eddie parked his car in one space and killed the engine.
We all filed out of the car and weaved in and out of the parking lot towards the building. The rains began to sprinkle harder. I zipped up my Bonnie hoodie and raised my shoulders up to my ears. I loved the rain, but hated getting wet.
When I stared up at the huge white building, I felt like my five year old self when I first arrived at Chuck E. Cheeses. The building was tall, white with some brickwork at the base. The windows were tinted and had brown and purple trim around it. The rooftop squared off at the top, Above the entrance was Freddy's face with the words: Freddy Fazbear's, just like in the picture on Scott's website. My mouth was slightly open in shock at the sight of it.
I felt someone touch my hand. I jumped and looked down. It was Eddie's hand. His fingers curled around mine. "Come on, Ren, let's go," he said, gently pulling me. I felt my legs move and began walking with him and my sister towards the pizzeria.
There, as I predicted, crowds of people waited outside the pizzeria. Some were taking pictures in front of it, others were drinking steaming Styrofoam cups of coffee to help wake themselves up. There were a bunch of people of all ages. I counted seventy five people wearing Five Nights At Freddy's t-shirts. Others had FNAF toy action figures, and I noticed a couple kids chasing each other around with FNAF Foxy and Freddy plushies.
Eddie, Shy and I came up to the edge of the crowd and stood near a pine tree. Eddie looked around at the clusters of people and sighed. "Wow, a lot more people than I expected," he said. I shrugged. I truthfully imagined more, but then again, it was still early in the morning. At the front entrance of the pizzeria, was a banner that read: Grand Opening! and at the door was a red ribbon.
Over to the far right, I noticed a bunch of white news vans parked outside the pizzeria, and news reporters already talking to a couple of the FNAF fans who had come earlier in the day. There was also a couple teens doing their own interviews for their Youtube channels. I stayed still and hoped they wouldn't come to me and ask me questions. Thankfully they didn't.
The minutes ticked by and soon it was close to ten. One person complimented me on my hoodie. I smiled and thanked her. The rains continued to come down. Prepared fans pulled out different colored umbrellas and raised them high over their heads.
Just then, the crowds began to cheer when the doors of the pizzeria opened. I went up on my tiptoes to see who it was. It was a couple of men dressed up in nice black suits. They stood under the awning at the entrance, out of the rain. I didn't recognize them at all.
One of them took the microphone and began to speak. As I listened, I learned that neither of them was Scott Cawthon, and that Scott wasn't able to show himself at the opening of the pizzeria; but they were still going to open the pizzeria anyway and so on and so forth.
One of them took out an unusually large pair of scissors and snipped the red ribbon. The huge crowd of fans cheered and began pouring into the pizzeria. Eddie smiled and squeezed my hand. "Ready?" he asked. My stomach began doing flips. I nodded my head as we all began slowly walking towards the gapping wide double doors of the pizzeria.
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