Ten years ago in L.A…

When you are 8.99999 years old and love teddy bears more than chocolate - except for chocolate Teddy Grahams, which combine two loves one delicious bite at a time - the thought of having your birthday party hosted by a giant walking, TALKING teddy bear holding a chocolate birthday cake is just about enough to make your head go bust!

Which would be bad 'cause if your head did go bust, you couldn't enjoy the party, which led to Penny (short for Penn'niqua) LaMort's main objective once she received the good news: be cool until the day of the party at Freddy Fazbear's, then go totally cray cray!

When the big day FINALLY arrived, Penny was more than prepared for amazing teddy bear birthday fun at Freddy Fazbear's: she had on the t-shirt with Freddy's face on it and the matching skort that her favorite oh-so-cool Aunt Jodi, who was an Ensign in the Navy, had sent her all the way from her submarine, the Jefferson City. She had on the teddy bear bead bracelet, anklet, and matching necklace that she made the week before at the Boys and Girl's Club after school not far from where she and her three little brothers and sisters lived.

Best of all, her Aunts Moesha and La'Quisha had spent all afternoon the day before carefully braiding her hair into an amazing swirl of teddy bear beaded braids and extensions as their birthday gift to her. Gramma Ruby, who had her own braiding salon, PAINTED FREDDY FAZBEAR'S FACE on all ten of Penny's tiny fingernails as she sat in front of the t.v. trying reallyreallyreally hard to sit still while her identical twin aunts, who worked at Gramma Ruby's shop, fussed and braided STARS and a HEART into the intricate whorls of her hair, no her CROWN— a crown fit for any princess. Only no princess would get this crown 'cause it was PENNY'S and PENNY'S only. Any princess dumb enough to try'n'talk Penny out of it would be firmly told, "Girlfrien'? Really? This hair is MINE! Get'chu own at my Gramma Ruby's shop – tell Gramma Ruby I sent you 'cause she give you a 10% discount an' I get a whole dollar if you do!"

Clutching the autographed Freddy Fazbear plushie that Ensign Aunt Jodi LaMort (Who couldn't come because she was reallyreallyreally busy doing Ensign stuff underwater, same as Penny planned on doin' some day, only SHE was going to be the CAPTAIN!) had sent along with the t-shirt— Penny ran ahead of her toooooooooo-slowwwwwwwwww family through the front door as held open by a great big yellow bunny rabbit and into Freddy Fazbear's, ready to party the place down to the ground.

The yellow rabbit chose Penny as she raced past him into Freddy Fazbear's because his son, who would return once he brought the dream back, should have only the finest playmates.

Simon agreed.

The grief of such a radiant child's family at losing such an obviously cherished bonbon, their beloved princess, would feed him for a long time.

Simon told the Yellow Rabbit what needed to be done.