Chapter 5 is a good one. It has a lot of clues to the future of this story. As always, feedback is always very appreciated :)
"See ya later then!" I yelled as Elaina stampeded out of the room. At least I'd learnt her name from the book I stole. Now I sort of had a connection to her.
I'd never really been a romantic type. I didn't believe in love at first sight or a destined true love….at least until now. Something pulled me towards her. From the second I saw her, I felt a rush of emotion like a cool breeze on a hot summer day. It felt as if I hadn't had food for weeks and suddenly a feast appeared to me. It was an unexplained feeling that I'd never felt before.
"Hey, Scraps?" I said to the only other person left in the room. "You said you had stories to tell about that puppet…"
"Well, I do, but they're kinda stupid. Just urban legend and rumor that Davey's been spreading around. He says that Hector told him these stories, but I think he's just making' 'em up to scare us."
"Tell me," I pleaded genuinely curious. I couldn't explain why that puppet intrigued me as much as it did.
"Why do you wanna know so bad, Scruffy?" Asked Scraps.
"Well, I got nothing else to do. One: I don't have any training for my job, so how am I expected to actually work, and two: Elaina doesn't really seem to like me all that much and she doesn't want to talk….." I sighed.
"I bet she'll grow on me tomorrow….." I drifted off into my thoughts while thinking about Elaina.
"Alright, I'll tell ya!" Said Scraps, snapping me out of my lovesick daze.
Scraps began to tell me Davey's stories about the puppet.
9:00 PM
After a day with a whole lot of sitting around, closing time finally came. My brother, along with Davey, joined me back in the lounge before all the lights were turned off. Throughout the day, I realized that I might of upset Elaina in some way, causing her to storm off, so I felt that I shouldn't talk to her until tomorrow. I would let her cool-off.
"You guys'll be sleepin' on the couch," began Davey. "I talked to Hector about letting you guys stay."
"And?" I asked
"You're lucky I got him in a better mood than he's been in lately. He'll let you stay only if you two work here without pay, like me," Davey explained. "And, ummm, sorry about earlier today, guys. I just get real weird when I'm asked about how I ran away. It's a pretty touchy subject for me," admitted the Fredbear's worker.
"Ummm...It's alright, I guess," I said while trying to recall what he'd done wrong in the first place. The lights in the diner suddenly went out and we began seeing the shadows of the night.
9:15 PM
In only fifteen minutes after closing time, the building seemed to be a great fit for a haunted ghost town. The place became so silent. Not to mention the darkness.
"Can't we turn on a light for a while?" Asked my brother as he and I were setting up two sleeping spaces on the couch. "No, man, sorry," replied Davey.
"We're losing money, so Fred demands that we don't use any power when we don't need it," continued Davey.
"Alright, then…"
"Oh! I almost forgot! Just stay in here at night, ok? 'Cause sometimes Leymour stays here after hours and…...Let's just say I don't really trust the guy. He's kinda shady," whispered Davey.
"Hey, Davey? Thanks for helping us out," I said gratefully.
"It's my pleasure to help people in need," he told us with his usually mischievous smirk.
10:30 PM
After about an hour of getting employee training, all three of us just began to talk personally until Adam fell asleep. Something that I always admired about my brother was the fact that he could fall asleep so quickly when he wanted to. It took me a good hour to fall asleep, and that was only on a good day. I also had to use some "methods" to fall asleep.
10:40 PM
Everyone was silent for a while until I decided to ask Davey about the stories that Scraps told me.
"Are they true?" I asked
"Is what true?" He asked
"The stories that Hector apparently told you about the puppet. Are they true?"
"Wait a sec! Did Scraps tell ya some stories?!" He asked kind of annoyed. I nodded my head. "Great, now we've got someone else who's gonna be all spooked."
"Can you at least explain to me what that puppet really is!" I said
"Maybe tomorrow. I'm pretty tired. Workin' in this dump really takes it outta me. One day i'll get outta here. Become, like, famous or somethin'... I dunno," Davey said
"Well maybe you could come with Adam and I to find Atopal," I said before realizing that Davey had no idea what Atopal was.
"What the hell is Atopal?" Asked Davey with a slight chuckle.
"A place up north that doesn't suck… My mom used to tell me about it. It's kinda like a utopia. I dunno if it even exists, but I swear to god I will find it. For him," I pointed at the now sleeping Adam. "You can come too if you want."
"Alright. Why not? I've run away from a past life once before, so it wouldn't kill me to do it again," Davey said. "But where are you gonna get the money? Neither of us are gonna get paid to work as long as we're livin' here," he explained.
"I don't know. Just stop with the questions. I hate it when people ask too many questions," I snapped. I got like that with Adam earlier that day too. I hated questions so much. I think it was because I didn't want to accept the reality of things and answering life's questions would force me to face it.
"Sorry," I began. "It's kind of a stupid dream I have. It's a dumb idea. Just forget I ever talked about it. I don't want to give anymore false hope than I've already given to Adam," I explained.
"Hey, man. Don't worry about it. One day things'll work out. One day you could become king of this whole town. Hell, one day you could become king of the world!" Davey comforted.
"Thanks, man. I've gotta get to bed. I'm pretty tired too. Goodnight," I told him. I then pulled something from out of my backpack and started winding it up.
"What's that?" Asked Davey
"Oh, this is just something my mom gave me before she passed... When I was much younger, my mom sang me "my grandfather's clock" as a lullaby, but when she became too busy to see me before bed, she gave me a music box that played the song. Now it's the only thing I can remember her by. It helps me go to sleep," I explained. Davey quietly laughed as if he found it a little amusing that I needed a music box to sleep.
12:10 AM
After much pondering, Elaina finally decided to meet with Leymour. She drove up to the building in the dead of night and parked in the nearly empty lot. The only other car in the lot was what she assumed to be Leymour's. The building underwent an extreme change in atmosphere at night. She knew this before she even walked in.
She opened the door to find a darkened and soundless building. She slowly walked into the main party area. She looked around the messy room only to find not a soul in the place. She looked towards the show stage and saw Fredbear in his deactivated form. The diner was so eerie, that it gave off the strange feeling that someone was always lurking right behind, but you turn around and nobody's there. Elaina thought she heard noises coming from deeper in the restaurant, but she decided not to investigate for too long and head straight for the door to the office.
She stepped inside after glancing over her shoulder because of that strange feeling that someone was following closely behind her. She told Leymour that he needed to explain his absurd actions from earlier today.
"The only chance we have to save many lives is for you to get out of here and for you to stay away from those two boys," Leymour said in a whisper.
"Are you talking about Jack and his brother?!" She asked still very confused about the whole situation.
"No! I'm talking about Jack and that accursed Dave," he shouted.
"Who I talk and hang out with is not up to you!" Elaina said trying to keep the volume of the conversation around the whispering territory.
"You don't understand! This is very importa-"
He closed his eyes and suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his sentence.
When he opened his eyes again, they were pure white. He stared intently at the wall for a couple seconds before remembering Elaina's presence. Without speaking a word, he got up and quickly started walking towards Elaina. She backed off, very startled at Leymour's sudden change in eye colour. She backed into the hall as Leymour took a small knife from out of his back pocket. He began running towards Elaina. Very frightened, she ran back into the main party room towards the doors, tripping over her own feet. She made the last minute decision to hide in the bathrooms instead of trying to make an escape. She ran into the girl's restroom and hid inside the stall to the far right of the room.
She heard Leymour's now slower footsteps echo through the empty building. As she shook in the stalls, staying as quiet as possible, she felt Leymour's presence outside the door. Luckily, he opened the stall on the far left first and began working his way towards her's. Despite the situation, she found it to be very cliché of him to open every single stall dramatically until he found his victim. She considered crawling under the stall to get out, but it was too late because Leymour had already begun banging on her stall door, still remaining perfectly quiet. Leymour hit the door so hard that the lock gave in and the door swung open, revealing Elaina who was cowering in fear.
He held up the knife as if he was about to stab.
"Welcome to the family," he whispered.
But before Elaina was cut down, she found herself sweating ferociously in her bed. She had dreamt it all, but it felt so real. Almost too real. Elaina remembered that she decided to not meet Leymour. She was worried he would be mad about it and after what she'd seen in her dream, she was scared to get on his bad side.
She had breakfast alone in her apartment and got ready for work. Today she was actually going to have to bring her tools and work on Fredbear. It was a Tuesday after all. Fredbear's was closed on Tuesday's.
It was only when she had walked into the building that the scary truth finally dawned on her… Dreams like the one Elaina just had usually came to pass.