Remember when you used to play that game. When you would hide with your friends in hopes they don't find you. Remember how fun that was when you were 5 years old. You would either seek the hiders or you were being seeked by them. It was a way to pass time while your waiting for something with your friends. I used to love that game, keywords being "used to". But ever since that night before Christmas Eve, I never played that game again while I was growing up.
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My sleep was cut off to the sound of Tattletail giggling and talking from somehwere outside. I got up and grabbed my flashlight and got up to investigate. Wandering into the kitchen, I felt a cold breeze and looked to see that somehow, the door was open. The clothes I had on right now were not proper enough, I quietly put on my jacket and snuck outside. I listened for the sounds of Tattletail's voice and I could only tilt my head in confusion when I heard it coming from the garage. Seeing the garage was open, my eyes widened in shock when I saw 2 Tattletails, there was my purple one and there was also a yellow one sitting in the center of the garage. They had suddenly stopped talking as if they were trying to lure me here. As I walked up to the Tattletail and picked it up, I almost ended up dropping it due to how LOUD it was!
As I stepped outside with my Tattletail in my arms, I heard it say something. "Hide and Seek!" was what I heard. Looking at it then back at the yellow Tattletail, i walked up to it and poked it to see if would do anything. Without warning, all the lights in the garage and also the house had went out. Almost immediately I knew that she was coming after me. As I looked up, I saw those 2 red eyes staring right at me and Tattletail. Being as quiet as possible, I carefully made my way out of the garage and as far away from this killer Mama as I could until she was out of my view. Quickly running back inside I opened the fridge and literally shoved the food into tattletail's mouth in panic as I felt the growing fear of Mama standing right behind me grow bigger and bigger. Once I fed Tattletail, I immediately ran and grabbed the brush on the couch and began to brush the toy as fast as i could. Once I turned around, I was met with those same red eyes from earlier and that metallic screeching as well. I managed to confuse Mama long enough for me to get to my room, but when Mama reappeared, my instincts kicked into overdrive when I heard my mother stir.
All that loud noise I made must've woken her. Diving into bed and stuffing my Tattletail underneath my pillow, I prayed to God that mom doesn't find out what was going on. I could only listen as my mom walked up to my door and opened it, I was pretending to be asleep and eventually i heard my door close and my mom walk off. After a few moments of silence I heard the door to my mother's room close and her getting back in bed, I waited for a little while then I climbed out of my bed and carefully opened my door, being as quiet as possible to sneak out, then I noticed something: The lights were back on. It had been 50 seconds and Mama was nowhere to be seen. Listening carefully, I heard another Tattletail under the Christmas Tree speaking, easily giving away its location under the Christmas Tree in the living room. Sneaking to the fridge, I fed the Tattletail and made my way to the basement to charge it while it ate. Catching my breath, I sat down and tried to process what just happened.
My thought process was cut off when I heard Tattletail finish charging, picking him up, I fed him the rest of my food and went to brush him. Brushing him I saw the feet of the yellow Tattletail standing under the tree and I could hear him giggling. Walking up to the yellow Tattletail, I moved the branches of the tree and picked up the toy. "You found me!" it said happily as if it had no idea what just happened. Setting it down on the couch and picking up MY Tattletail, I got ready to pack it up in his box in the basement, but stopped when I heard the one demand I never wanted to hear at a time like this...Hide And Seek!
Walking up to the Yellow Tattletail, I poked him again and just like that, the lights went out. Shaking my flashlight, I began to walk towards the fridge and opened it. I began to feed him all the while listening out for Mama, once I closed the fridge I made my way down to the basement and set Tattletail to charge as I constantly looked around for Mama. Suprisingly, she was nowhere to be seen. I just hoped that it stayed that way. "Mama will look after you!" I spun around to see Mama staring at me. Stepping back, I ended up tripping on something in the darkness. Regaining my thoughts, I opened my eyes to see Mama standing over me, her red eyes staring into mine. As she tried to bite me, I quickly kicked Mama and made her fall over. Grabbing Tattletail, I bolted up the stairs and ran to the living room as Mama appeared behind me. Tattletail, who was surprisingly quiet began to shake in fear and shout for help. I tried my best to quiet him but alas, he wouldn't shut up. I could hear Mama approaching my location, I closed my eyes and hoped that she would just go away. God was on my side as the lights turned on before Mama could find me, which meant that Mama was gone.
I opened my eyes and sighed in relief as I stood up. I once again fed him, brushed him and recharged him. As I made my way upstairs, I heard the familiar voice of the yellow Tattletail giving off its location in my room. As I entered my room, I saw the yellow Tattletail "hiding" in my closet. I poked it again and once again it said "You found me!" and then to my dismay and pure shock, it wanted to play hide and seek again! After I fed, charged and brushed my Tattletail, I poked the yellow Tattletail again and just like that, the lights went out. Once again, it was time to play hide and seek. Rinse and repeat my strategy for the 3rd time and like a God send, after what felt like an eternity, the lights turned back on.
After I managed to find the Yellow Tattletail in the basement. I prayed that I would no longer have to play another round of this deadly game of hide and seek. As I picked it up, it said "You found me!" once again. I waited for Tattletail to say hide and seek once more, but after a minute of waiting I saw that the yellow Tattletail was dormant. As I set it down, I saw a VHS Tape with duct tape on the front with the words "PLEASE WATCH" scribbled in as if a child was in a hurry and quickly wrote it down. Taking the VHS Tape and Tattletail to my room, I closed the door and put the VHS Tape into the TV. As it loaded, I was confused when I saw that this was in the Tattletail AD set. The lights were off and there was a row of rooms to select. I picked up the remote to my TV and surprisingly I could use it to switch through the cams by pressing the up and down buttons on the remote to change cams.
There was one camera that confused me, CAM9: Storage. It showed an empty dark room. I scrolled down and clicked on play and the familiar jingle of the Tattletail ad emitted from the TV. As I was switching through the cams, I noticed that some of them were beginning to turn red, as I switched to the "MAMA" Cam, she was missing from the scene. Switching through the cams as fast as I could to find her I clicked on the Storage Cam and my eyes widened when I saw Mama standing there next to something. It wasn't Mama that shocked me, it was what was next to Mama: a person. I couldn't see who it was, but based on that whoever it was was lying on the floor and appeared to be struggling to get up, I knew that Mama must have done something. But when I switched to the "Product" Cam, I saw that behind the Tattletail Box was the body of a worker lying there and Mama was looking down at the person as if she was making sure that person would die.
As the lights of the studio cut off, I could still see the figure of Mama and the others briefly before the blue screen shined on my TV and the tape ejected from the tape player. As I picked it up and looked at it, I saw that the duct tape on the tape was gone. Setting the tape down, I was too tired to think so I turned off my TV and got in bed. I looked at my Tattletail who had also fell asleep and sighed. I closed my eyes and fell right to sleep.
2 Days Until Christmas!