I was gonna wait until MELA was done till I updated this, but I thought "fuck it" bc this story won't leave me alone :)))

But yeah, enjoy this chapter! :)

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Chapter 3
Sunday: 1 p.m.

After getting home at about 3:30 a.m., Ashton crept into the house quietly in the hope he wouldn't wake his Mom up or either of his siblings. Once he had the door locked without falling over from his drunkenness, he attempted to get upstairs until he got into his room and collapsed on his bed where he fell asleep for a couple of hours. When he was woken up again, it was 9 a.m., by his Mom telling him he had to get up and showered so that he could take his little brother Harry to a birthday party at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Of course, Ashton is hungover and it was a battle to get him out of bed. Eventually he got out of bed half an hour later, got showered, dressed, ate, did whatever else he needed to before 10:30 came and he had to take Harry to the party.

Ashton couldn't understand why his Mom couldn't have taken him. Especially since she knew that he was going out for the night to a party, where there would be alcohol. Maybe she told him he had to because she wanted to see him suffer at a kids pizza restaurant with a banging headache. That is the typical thing Ashton's Mom would do.

When they got to Freddy's Ashton took Harry inside and took him to the dining room where the party was, the kids, loud noises and the animatronic characters that would be wrecking Ashton's head for the next few hours.

It wouldn't be so bad, but there was nobody here that Ashton knew. They were all middle aged Mom's, so Ashton looked a little out of place in the room. Hence why he chose to go over and sit down at a table in the far corner where nobody could bother him. He played on his phone for most of the time, trying to text Luke, Brad, Rocky and Ross but neither of them were responding. More than likely because they're dead from the hangover and Brad probably had a mental breakdown from his hallucination last night.

Ashton sighed and looked up from his phone, looking over to the stage in the dining room where the three animatronic characters were doing what they normally did. Perform on the stage, walk around the room with the kids for a bit, wonder around the room aimlessly by themselves. Nothing much. They never talked though. Which was weird, because Ashton's sure that people do dress up as them. He could have sworn he saw somebody's head through the mouth of the duck earlier on. He wouldn't know. The costume didn't smell too great so he decided to try and stay away from the characters. They smelt like rotting corpses.

Not that Ashton would know what rotting corpses smelt like, but he imagines it's what they smell like.

"Amazing aren't they."

Ashton looked up to where he saw a man stood next to him in his 30's, looking over to the animatronic characters. Ashton shrugged "What's so great about people dressed up as animals?" Ashton asked.

The man looked down at him "Oh, they're not dressed up. They're exoskeletons with Freddy Fazbear costumes on."

Ashton gave the man a funny look "Are you sure?" Ashton asked "because... I came in earlier and I was near the duck or chicken, whatever it is, and I looked into it's mouth – not on purpose, they're just so big – and I thought I saw the head of a human being. Now either you're feeding me bullshit or they're very realistic exoskeletons." he said, lifting his drink and drinking it.

The man let out a small laugh "Oh, dear. If only you knew.." the man muttered so that Ashton couldn't hear.

"Hey, Ashton!"

Ashton turned his head towards the door of the dining room where he heard the familiar voice call him. He saw Rocky coming through the door, soon followed by Luke, Ross and Brad who looked like he could collapse any minute from his hangover or fright. "What are you four doing here?" Ashton asked as they came over and each placed themselves around the table or pulled up a chair because there weren't enough.

"We thought we wouldn't let you suffer in this place alone," Ross said, he turned to Brad who looked white as a sheet "that, and we thought it would be funny to watch Brad shit himself after last night." he laughed a little.

Brad rolled his eyes "Shut up. It wasn't funny. I was drunk." Brad said, finally coming to terms with the fact that he was having a drunken hallucination. Especially since costumes can't move by themselves.

What made Brad think that they could in his drunk state, he does not know.

"So you're finally admitting you were seeing things?" Luke asked, forgetting about the man who was stood there at the table. Brad slouched in his chair and folded his arms like a sulking five year old. Luke let out a small laugh "Oh, we're so going to hold this over you for the rest of our life's."

Brad rolled his eyes again. They had been doing this ever since they came to his house to get him to come to this place. He didn't want to come, mainly because after last night he's been petrified of the purple bunny. Sure it doesn't look so harmful now playing with the kids, but in the dark that thing is scary.

"Well, it'll teach him not to go into places like these drunk in the middle of the night." Rocky said.

"Dude." Ashton hissed, hinting to the man stood next to them at the table as he's pretty sure that he might be an employee here – or even worse the manager or owner.

Rocky rolled his eyes "Says the one who showed me where the back door was. If you hadn't of told me the back door to this place was right in front of us then he wouldn't have had to have come in."

The man stared at the five boys suspiciously, taking in every detail of how each of them looked after hearing what Rocky had just said. He folded his arms and looked down at Brad "You snuck in here last night didn't you." The man said, looking at him suspiciously.

Brad looked up at the man and felt a little bit scared, making him slouch more in his chair "Are you the security guard..?" Brad asked, the man shook his head "then... y-yeah. I did. But I was desperate for the toilet okay! It as 3 a.m. and I was blind drunk! The door was left open anyway so that was basically an open invitation for me to do it."

The man nodded "I know you were drunk. I checked the security camera's this morning and watched you fall off that stage." he said, pointing over to the stage which made Brad feel a tiny bit embarrassed "but it's okay. You didn't break or steal anything. Actually, you did break the light at the bottom of the stage when you started backing away from the table after you saw the bunny had moved to the other side of the room and knocked it over. But, I won't ask you for money to replace it. Don't worry." he said, about to walk away.

Brad sighed in relief at the fact he wouldn't have to go home and explain to his Mom why he needed nearly five hundred dollars to fix a light after he snuck into a kids pizza restaurant and broke it at 3 in the morning drunk. She would kill him instantly.

As the man started walking away, Brad replayed what the man had just said to him in his head "Wait, what did you just say?" Brad asked suspiciously as the man turned around when he spoke again "did you just say the bunny... did move..?" he asked, starting to become frightened again. The man nodded. Brad turned to the others "I told you it wasn't a drunk hallucination because afterwards the chicken moved! Didn't he? AH!" Brad turned around and jumped when he saw the man stood behind them all again.

Ashton rolled his eyes "Brad, the costumes have exoskeletons inside of them that control them to move. Someone probably forgot to turn them off when they put them back on the stage yesterday."

"Actually, no," The man said "they're left on a free roam mode at night because they can't be left off for too long."

"What? So they just wonder around by themselves from the moment nobody's in the place till morning when someone comes in to open up?" Rocky asked, not being quite sure if that was believable.

The man nodded "Yeah, they're left on it because we don't want to risk their servo's locking up from disuse. It would cost a lot to get them repaired otherwise."

Ross stared at the man in a bit of disbelief "What? And the security guard is okay with having three animatronic's roaming around the place whilst he watches the camera's in case there's a break in for a robber." Ross let out a laugh of disbelief. What kind of place is this? It makes no sense to him what so ever.

"We don't have a security guard any more. We don't get a new one until next week because Mike, the other security guard... could you say... left?" The man asked, looking up thoughtfully as he had to think about what had happened to Mike, who was the old security guard they had until Friday because he 'left'.

The five boys all glanced at each other when he said that, not liking how he said it. It almost sounded morbid, evil and cunning all at once like something had happened to this Mike guy. The man shrugged "But I don't see a problem with there not being a security guard. But we would prefer it if there was one. I mean, I'm not going to come in and work a 12 till 6 a.m. shift. I have to be here at 6 anyway to get here and sort the place out so it's presentable for opening up for the day."

"You don't see a problem with there not being a security guard?" Luke questioned, finding that a little bit weird "near enough every place in Utah has a security guard. You know places around this area of town get broken into on a regular basis. Why would you not want a security guard here for? I mean, I get that the only things they'll be able to steal are chairs, tables, the animatronic exoskeletons and costumes. But still, I don't think you'll want to pay money to replace all of that if they get stolen."

"Oh, no, we don't have the security guard look out for the robbers. We have them to watch the animatronic's, but if a robber did break in," The man paused, laughing a little "then god help him or her. The security guard will be the least of their problems." he smirked turning around to leave again.

"What do you mean?" Ross asked, confused.

The man stopped walking and turned around again. He scanned the whole room to make sure nobody was listening in on them before pulling up a chair to the table so that he could quietly speak to the five boys "At night, the animatronic's are left on a free roam mode."

"Yeah, you've said that already."

The man nodded "Yes, I know. But I thought I would remind you. The reason that I said we would be better off without a security guard is because it's dangerous at night time for them. Hence why when you go into the security room you have metal doors that shut as soon as you press a button so nothing at all can get in, and two light switches that show the hallway on either side of the doors. The problem is, the lights, camera's and doors use up power and you only have a limited amount of it, and once that runs out before 6 a.m... you can kiss your ass goodbye. You know, unless it's like... quarter to six. Maybe then you'll have a chance."

"W-what do you mean by 'maybe you'll have a chance'... You're speaking as if there's something that's gonna hurt you..." Brad said, starting to feel a little bit scared. And he wasn't even the security guard.

Although, if this is the case as to why there's no security guard any more then the boys can see why. The man sighed "Because, when the animatronic characters roam around at night time... they don't register you as a person... they just see you as a metal exoskeleton without it's costume on and well... if they see and catch you they'll forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. But, the suits have stuff inside them that help the exoskeleton move and work like cross beams, wires and animatronic devices, especially in the facial area so... once that suit is on you... there is a possibility that you could die a slow and painful death. Or a quick death. Depending on where abouts in the head or face you got stabbed by all that."

An awkward silence fell over the entire table they were sat on. They weren't sure whether to believe this or not or whether if it was some sort of Halloween ghost story the man was trying to scare them with. That was why Rocky burst out laughing a few seconds later "Oh, good one. You really had me going there for a moment." he said, wiping his eyes and slouching back in the chair he was in.

"I'm not lying."

Luke nodded "Yeah, I think you are. We're not kids any more. We're not gullible or frightened so easily now."

"I'm telling the truth I swear, I know it's hard to believe but I swear on my families life I am," The man said, getting defensive. There was no sign on his face of laughter or a slight smirk or grin either, which was making the boys start to believe him a little bit. He seemed really serious about this. "The only way you're going to believe this is if you watch it on camera from an old recording or if you witness it with your own eyes. I had this exact conversation with five other people about 10, 15 years ago. And weirdly enough, the same thing happened to them. You said that the back door was left unlocked, right?" the man asked, facing Brad who nodded "well, that back door is constantly locked because I lock it every night before I go after the garbage has been taken out. That back door was left wide open for them five people to come in to their hearts delight and they did. Just to see what was around but left as soon as they saw one of the animatronic's move. The next day, I had this same conversation with them and they never believed me. So, do you know what they did to see if I was telling the truth?" he asked.

"What?"

"They spent five nights here, because throughout the week they tend to get more active and the fox and the bear don't move until about... the third night. Maybe the second night if you're really unlucky. But unfortunately for them, they didn't last the five nights. Only one of them did, and that was Mike our old security guard. But it happened again as well with five other people before them five. Of course, it wasn't me who told them this story it was someone else. And they did the same thing. Except them five lasted the five nights, surprisingly." he explained.

The man looked around at the five boys, taking a deep breath "I like to call this process the 'Five Nights At Freddy's'. Though, would you really call it a process? It's where five teenagers, or whatever their age are, stay here for five nights, the same hours a security guard would where they would be instantly proved wrong about what they thought about the animatronic's. Most only last till the third night. That's when things start to get real and when it starts to become a little bit more trickier than night 1 and 2."

Ross smirked "What did they get scared that they had to leave? What a bunch of wuss's."

"Alright, sure, you think that kiddo," he said, giving him a small smile which made Ross's drop "so what do you say? Do you guys want to spend the five nights and be proved wrong? Or do you just want to go ahead and think this is just some made up story to scare you?"

Rocky shrugged "I don't see what's so bad. I'm not doing anything this week and I'll only be sat in my house bored and sleeping all day. Besides, it seems like fun. A little bit of an early Halloween if you think about it. Even though the only scary thing is going to be the fact you're sat in darkness from 12 till 6."

"Are you fucking insane?" Brad asked.

"Yes, I am. What do you guys think? It's not like we're going to do anything productive this week or have anything important to do." Rocky said, looking at Ross, Luke and Ashton as he had the feeling Brad wouldn't be up to this at all. Given by the horrified and scared look on his face.

Luke shrugged "I don't know... I just feel like you're getting us to do the security guards job until the new one comes next week." Luke said, looking at the man.

That's when it occurred to the others the man might be trying to do that. The man rolled his eyes "Alright, then. I'll make you a deal. If you do this, and get to the fifth night, I'll pay you all each of what the security guard's pay is. I won't split it up, I'll give you all one hundred and twenty dollars each. Only if you do the full five nights."

Ross looked up, thinking about it in his head and nodded his head "One hundred and twenty dollars isn't too bad."

"Are you serious?" Brad asked.

"Hey! At least we're getting paid to do it, I don't think if you spent five nights at anywhere else they'd pay you to do it. Besides, we get the satisfaction of receiving money if we're wrong or right. And I could do with a hundred and twenty dollars. I think we all could."

"I'm up for it. I'll do it. It sounds fun," Rocky said, putting his hand up "whether or not these four pussies do it as well."

"I'll do it too. I don't see what can be so bad, even if you are right." Ross added.

Ross and Rocky all looked to Ashton, Luke and Brad who looked like they were all debating about it in their minds. At the moment Brad looked like the least likely to do it. But he shrugged and sat up straight in his chair "Fuck it, you're all gonna end up doing it without me and if I'm the last one to say I'll do it, I'll look like a wimp and you'll all hold it over me for the rest of my life. So yeah, I'll do it. I'll probably leave in a casket due to a heart attack, but hey whatever."

"Or you'll leave in a casket dressed in a Freddy Fazbear suit," Ashton said, joking making everyone laugh but Brad. Ashton started laughing when he saw the look on his face. He shook his head "Oh, you're so easy Brad. But yeah, I'll do it. It's something different and I've never done anything like it before. What about you, Luke?" Ashton asked, looking at him.

Luke moved uneasily and scratched the back of his neck "I don't know, guys..." Luke said, only to be groaned at by the other boys telling him to do it and that he was a wuss. He didn't know who said what because they all spoke at the same time. He sighed "But... I don't want to. I might be doing stuff during this week."

Ross rolled his eyes "Name one productive thing you're going to do this week."

Luke folded his arms, pouting his lip like a 5 year old and giving in "Alright, fine. I'll do it."

The man smiled "Alright then, I'll see you tonight at about... 11:30..? Just so I can show you where everything is and get you all set up. Hey, I think even the old security guard left some recorded messages for the new security guard, so you can play them and see what he has to say about the job if it'll help you out."

"What happens if we don't do the five nights?" Ashton asked "say, if we only make it to the third night because we're too scared. Is that it? We don't get anything for getting through at least half of the five nights."

The man shook his head. "Why not? C'mon, if we do half the nights, then give us half of what one hundred and twenty dollars is. Why can't you do that?" Rocky asked.

"Because if you don't make it to the end of the fifth night and only make it to the third night, you won't be seeing me again to get that sixty dollars."

In the next chapter I'm gonna start Night 1 from where we left off in the prologue so the story gets into full swing :) It'll probably be a short story, but who cares, right?

PLEASE REVIEW IF YOU WANT THE NEXT ONE. bc... I really like writing this story, & it doesn't make me feel good when I have a favourite story to write & like... 2 people only review on it.