Author's Note:
Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 134
Ghost Hunters
It was a lazy night, which Mike was so grateful for.
Ruby hadn't given him that shark grin all night.
There was a lighthearted argument about what to do next as a group. Some wanted to play a game of hide and seek, a few wanted to put another movie on, others were advocating TV shows, and it was a discussion several of the bots (and Ruby) were taking way too seriously.
"But how often does Hedy not need her laptop?" Mangle reasoned, "We should take the opportunity to binge watch Tv shows with her Netflix while we can."
Hedy rolled her eyes, slightly regretting even hooking up her laptop to the projector tonight. So many shows and movies at their fingertips...
At least everyone seemed to settle on the decision of watching a TV show. But which one?
"We are not watching one of your anime-es," Chica scolded, not sure how to pronounce the plural. "That one show you put on last time was awful. Giants eating people?! How is that entertainment!"
"Okay, maybe picking Attack on Titan first was a mistake," Mags admitted. "A huge mistake..."
"I can't even look at you the same now."
"Hey!"
"Chica, now you're being a little dramatic?" Foxy chuckled.
Chica glared at him, and Foxy wisely shut up.
"Put Hannibal on," Mari spoke without looking up from the book Hedy had brought him.
Not for the first time, Ruby wondered when the bots found the opportunity to learn how to read.
"No!" several bots shouted at him.
"That's still about eating people!" Chica cried with a moan of exasperation.
Mike snorted. "Okay, how about nothing about eating people?" he suggested.
"Hedy!" Toby complained, "What should we watch? I haven't seen Criminal Minds in while..."
"Most every crime show has violence and adult themes so think about if everyone's fine watching that," Hedy answered as she worked on some wiring in Freddy's torso, the bear holding his arm up over her head so she could get at his side. It was so much easier for her to work now since they figured out how to shorten the table legs to bring a working surface closer to the ground. With it more accessible, Hedy didn't have to climb out of her chair and up on the table to work on someone, if she could put up with the hassle of bringing the tables down. "I don't feel like watching My Little Pony for a while. My niece is obsessed right now. Put Doctor Who, Star Trek, or Warehouse 13 on." Hedy smirked. "Or an animal planet documentary. Those are always fun."
All the bots glared at her except Puppet, who chuckled.
They watched a documentary about foxes once, which was fine. It was interesting to see what real animals were like as opposed to the cartoon characters they basically were. Everything was fine until the fox in the show sneaked onto a farm and killed a chicken it was hunting.
Chi thought they were going to be cute friends. It was a bit of a shock...
Mangle cracking up at the poor chicken's horrified reaction didn't help at all.
The fox could be a bit playfully sadistic.
Chica was a bit upset too and unfortunately, while they were trying to calm Chi down, another fox in the wild brutally killed a bunny.
Ruby's airy comment of, "Oh hey it's Toby," only made Mangle laugh harder and Foxy snort and roll his eyes while Toby looked indignant.
Freddy banned fox documentaries then, immediately earning an irritated Ruby.
Chi muttered at the memory, and Hedy snickered.
Ruby suddenly jumped up and gasped.
Hedy eyed the night guard suspiciously.
Mike looked worried. He was still finding glitter in his clothes. His roommates had made some inappropriate comments about where he went all night. And how much it was. "What...?"
Ruby darted over and whispered in Hedy's ear, which immediately worried all of them. Ruby plotting was never good.
Freddy strained to hear and didn't like how Hedy frowned, despite the corners of her mouth twitching in amusement.
"Would either of you like to share with the class?" he said dryly.
Hedy ignored him and asked Ruby, "Isn't that a little cheesy?"
"It's hilarious!" Ruby grinned.
"Ask Timmy."
"Ask me what?" Timmy asked, looking away from the screen.
"What do you think about putting on a paranormal investigator show?" Hedy said.
The ghost blinked. "You mean like Ghostbusters?" he questioned in soft confusion.
Hedy groaned, and Ruby laughed while the bots snickered at Hedy.
Ruby shook her head, grinning, and made a so-so motion, "Sort of. But it's shot like a documentary. With real idiots looking for ghosts."
The bots looked confused.
"It's always a bunch of very...intense...people who don't seem to know what they're doing," Hedy complained. "So much is fake."
Ruby skipped to the laptop, apparently deciding for them.
They got five minutes into the first ghost hunter show Ruby could find before erupting into complaints and mockery.
"That's a water stain!" Bonnie said. "How does that even look like a face?!"
"Even I can tell that was a piece of dust..." Teddy groaned as the people on the screen got excited by a "ghost orb" caught on their camera.
Timmy actually looked amused too. "Where is that?"
"An abandoned prison," Hedy said, already knowing the next question.
Timmy blinked. "Th-they're staying a night in an abandoned prison? ...so they think they're talking to criminals?" He seemed confused.
At that moment, one of the paranormal investigators started talking about one of the ghosts that supposed to be there. A serial killer, go figure.
"Why aren't they worried about getting hurt?"
"Because it's faaaaake!" Ruby mocked. "They don't actually believe what they're doing."
"Don't try this at home," another person on screen said, "We're professionals."
"Oh, please..." Hedy snorted.
"You don't even have any salt!" Ruby shouted at the show.
"Is there anyone in this room with me?" one of the men said with near reverence in his voice as a woman swept a microphone back and forth.
"If there are, they're laughing at you," Foxy deadpanned.
"What do you want to bet the place is actually haunted?" Mags said. "And either the ghosts are going to screw with them or actually get annoyed and scare them out."
"Nah, they're not going to scare them out. These are supposed to be 'professionals'," Hedy said. "They wouldn't show that."
There was one great moment during the show where the leader of the team went into a very serious lecture about how spirits exist on another plane of existence that was impossible to see or hear, so spirits (he found the term "ghost" racist for some bizarre, unexplained reason) are unable to speak to individuals unless they are psychics, mediums, or have the special equipment.
"He sounds so sure," Goldy whispered in horror at the complete lack of fact.
Hedy snorted. A moment later she squinted at the tv and cocked her head. She elbowed Goldy.
"Did you see that?"
Goldy looked down at her. "See what?"
Hedy rewinded the show, ignoring the complaints and groans that they were going to have to prolong their suffering. "There." She pointed at a space on the screen.
Goldy frowned. "Isn't that one of the camera crew?"
"If it is, that's a weird costume to be wearing to work," Hedy pointed out.
"What are you talking about?" Foxy said. "I don't see anyone."
Ruby paused. She frowned and grabbed a marker out of Hedy's bag. She drew the outline of a person on the screen without checking if the marker was permanent or not.
"Who can see this dude?" she asked, raising her hand along with Hedy, Goldy, and Timmy. "Who can't see anything?"
Everyone else raised their hand.
"Huh..." Ruby said, tossing the marker back in Hedy's bag.
Hedy frowned and played the video, trying to ignore the big marker doodle on the screen. She suddenly laughed. "A ghost just flipped the camera off," she explained as Goldy snickered too.
"This makes these dumb shows much more entertaining," Ruby said.
Mike looked a little disturbed. "You can see ghosts outside the building?"
"I mean…" Hedy hesitated. "We're inside the building right now."
Mike gestured at the screen. "They aren't."
"I don't know how it works, Mike. I've actually seen this episode before. I don't remember seeing anyone there."
Ruby smirked at her. "How often do you watch this?"
Hedy shot her a glare.
"You enjoy these shows?" Puppet asked. "Ironic."
"I didn't say I enjoy them."
Timmy smirked. "But you watched them enough to remember the episodes."
"Hedy," Mangle said with a low mocking concern and enormous eyes. "Is this a recent development?"
Toby glared at the screen, willing someone to push "play" so they could get this over with.
"Shockingly, no," Hedy grumbled. "Jeremy and I watched these when I was a kid. Mostly to laugh at them. I didn't believe in ghosts."
Timmy pouted at Hedy. "I'm hurt."
"Timmy."
Ruby's grin sharpened. "Hedy. Are you a Shaniac or Boogara?"
Hedy squinted at the teen while Mike snorted and the bots all looked confused.
"I'm not answering."
"Coward."
"Will someone just hit play so we can finish this?!" Toby whined.
Ruby looked completely willing to do the opposite of that just to annoy him.
Luckily for him, Goldy got hold of the remote and continued the show. The rest of the night (to Toby's dismay) was dedicated to watching more as those who could see the ghosts had a great time watching the paranormal antics while the people were oblivious to it all.
"This is boring. I can't see any of the good parts." Toby complained.
"We can always kill you too so that you can," Goldy offered brightly.
Toby shut up after that.
The next day Ruby came in for a day shift since Andrew was off sick. Poor guy got hugged by a kid who had chickenpox but didn't know it.
It was about lunchtime when both Ruby's and Puppet's attention moved to the door in eerie sync. The teen sidled up to the animatronic.
"Did someone just walk in the door with a video camera hidden under their jacket?" Ruby asked, baffled. "An actual tv show level video camera?"
"His friend seems to have one of those new...action cameras too," Puppet grunted. "Goldy?"
"I see," Goldy's voice quietly said. "I'll keep an eye on them."
"Keep an eye on them?" Ruby asked incredulously. "I'm going to beat them up. They're recording minors without permission! That is so dodgy." She looked ready to march over and do just that too. Her fingers were twitching like they did when she was about to produce Betty from thin air. They still didn't know how she did it. Hedy said even the building was baffled by that.
"Hm, you're right…" Goldy said. She was used to parents bringing cameras in so the dodginess didn't click for a moment.
"You know what? Imma steal the cameras," Ruby decided. "Goldy, hide them somewhere in the building. These creeps need to be terrorised."
And she was off. It was a little worrying how easily she 'liberated' the cameras from the people. Especially the large one. It took them a good minute to notice. Then, while they were freaking out about that, Ruby approached them and demanded to know what they were doing in a kids' restaurant with no kids.
It wasn't long before she chased them out.
"I wonder what they said they were doing," Puppet said to Goldy dryly.
However, that wasn't the end of it…
Teddy came over from his area, looking for Ruby. "Uh, Ruby, is it normal for people to wave shiny rocks at walls?" Teddy asked, confused enough to ask the night guard.
"Say what now?" Ruby turned to find a lady doing just that.
While a guy recorded her with a camera.
"Oh for-" she cut herself off before she could swear. Little ears all around them.
She stormed over and grabbed the camera.
"Hey!" the guy complained.
"And you're filming in a children's restaurant without permission because?" Ruby asked as the lady turned around as well, cheap-looking shiny rock in hand.
"You wouldn't understand," she sniffed.
The guy actually shot her a look, as if silently begging her to shut up.
"Right," Ruby drawled. "Get out before I call the cops."
The guy seemed clearly peeved. "Look, we aren't hurting anyone. This is a...research project."
"Right," Ruby repeated. "A 'research project' that requires filming little kids without their guardian's knowledge or permission. Pervert."
"Excuse me?" the woman snapped.
"What?! Fuck no, that's not it at all!" the man said, clearly offended, but not with enough control on his temper to watch his language.
Ruby punched him in the arm. "Hey! Don't swear around the kids!" she snapped. "And if I were to raise my voice and ask the nearby parents if they were comfortable with this you would be sued so fast your head would spin. Get out."
The man blinked at Ruby then spun to look at the woman. "Didn't Calum call the owner?"
The woman shrugged, glaring at Ruby. "I don't know."
"You were supposed to make sure he-!"
"That's your job dumbass. I'm not your fricking secretary. That's not my skill set."
"No," Ruby deadpanned. "I practically live here. I would have heard about weirdos snooping around if you had permission." And what the hell did she mean by 'skill set'? Waving a freaking rock at a wall?
The man glared at the woman but looked back at Ruby, painfully trying to pull a polite expression. He glanced at her security hat. "Uh...look kid, there's been a misunderstanding. Do you know how I can get in touch with the owner?"
"Or an actual adult," the woman muttered under her breath. Did she really think Ruby couldn't hear?
"I can still call the cops on you lady," Ruby pointed out brightly. "There's security cameras and we have footage of you illegally recording minors.
Ruby turned to the guy then. "The owner has been out of all forms of contact for years. I can call someone for you to talk to. But I'm keeping your camera and you two need to plant your asses in that booth over there." She pointed to the nearest empty one.
"Language," Teddy said and the two adults jumped with small yelps, not noticing that he had been standing off to the side behind them, listening the whole time and looking properly confused.
The two stared at him suspiciously.
"No kids in earshot at the moment Teddy," Ruby rolled her eyes, not having reacted at all. "Keep an eye on them would you?"
Teddy nodded slightly, staring (probably creepily) at the two adults.
She walked away from the group, vaguely hearing the man mumble something about Teddy. She pulled out her cellphone and called Hedy, waiting impatiently for the mechanic to pick up and also wondering about her reaction to the 'ghostbuster' theme song blasting out of her phone.
"RUBY!" Hedy's voice came through the phone. "One, I was in the middle of class. And two, how did you get into my ringtone settings? Nevermind. Why are you calling? I actually gave you my class schedule, for some reason."
"I thought you'd enjoy some good music now and then," Ruby grinned wickedly. "Glad I could treat your class too." Then her smile dropped. "Some creeps have been trying to sneak in all day with cameras, filming stuff. The guy I confronted now seemed to think they had permission or something and asked for a way to talk to the owner. Since 'he who must not be named in hearing distance of the bots' has been out of contact for years and even I can't find him, and I don't want the manager making the decision since he'd accept bribes, I want you to deal with it."
"Translation, you want me to pretend I'm in charge of the place," Hedy said knowingly.
"You technically are. I'm just your enforcer," Ruby pointed out cheerfully.
Hedy sighed. "Look, I actually care about not getting in trouble with my professors. I can be there in about an hour. But based on your tone, I don't feel bad about making the creeps wait."
"Oh that won't be a problem. I'm going to ask Puppet to stare at them creepily. Teddy is doing it currently and it's already freaking them out."
Hedy paused for a moment. "Hey, you know how the building seems to make the bots being alive seem normal to adult customers? No one ever questions them moving around or talking like people and not animatronic installations. How are these ...guests...reacting to them?"
"Well the guy seems wary of Teddy. The girl just keeps waving her rock around and muttering to herself." She glanced back at the table and rolled her eyes to find her waving her rock in Teddy's direction.
The poor bot looked so confused.
So did everyone who noticed her weird behaviour.
"BATTERIES!" BB shrieked as he raced past with an entourage of very young children, all holding stolen batteries, including parents' cell phone batteries. Not an uncommon sight. Ruby was starting to believe that BB had started a battery cult but she didn't have proof.
It made the two weirdos practically jump out of their skin though.
Teddy wasn't even fazed, far too used to BB over the years.
"Well, my suggestion is tell the bots to act more like robots, at least until I figure out what they're doing," Hedy said. "If the building isn't making this look normal to them."
"Got it. Enjoy the rest of your boring class," Ruby chirped before hanging up while Hedy was about to argue why AI Ethics wasn't "boring". Nerd.
She darted into the prize room to ask Puppet to keep an eye on the two and be creepy and robotic while doing it. Then she passed on the same message to Teddy who passed it onto the rest of the bots.
She did catch a few of the bots peering at them curiously but none of them approached them and Puppet stayed in his box which he'd moved, the lid cracked so that he could stare out at them.
"That's our security bot," Ruby mentioned off-handedly. "He'll just be keeping an eye on you until my boss gets here."
She didn't feel guilty at all that the pair looked very freaked by the time Hedy arrived.
Apparently, the other two Ruby chased out earlier were part of the group and hadn't left, sulking in their creepy van. Didn't help with the "not perverts" angle they were trying.
"They've even got the creepy white van!" Ruby whisper-yelled at Goldy when she found out about this. The ghost bear had found out by eavesdropping on their conversation, floating right above them, invisible. "They're perverts!"
Goldy had to stop her from going out to slash the tires.
Hedy could be seen pulling into the Manager's parking space, which made Puppet nearly laugh.
The idiot had put his special parking spot closer than even the handicap lots and Hedy took offense. All the other staff, including her during the day, were told to park in the back. But the Manager was out on some kind of errand. At least that was the official story. He'd actually had a little mental breakdown and had been ordered to stay home for a couple of weeks.
No one argued against Hedy's pettiness when she had to come in during the day. She even encouraged Mike to use the space.
Ruby met her at the door, pointing out the van and telling her what Goldy had said. Then she gestured at the pair Puppet was freaking out.
They noticed Ruby talking to her and came over quickly, more than eager to move away from Puppet. Another pair saw the two gather by the door and climbed out of the van as well, jogging up to them.
"Creepy white van," Ruby coughed when they were in earshot. Before they could say anything, she gestured at Hedy. "My sister, Hedy, is in charge." She'd decided to pretend to be the 'harmless' little sister who got away with stuff since her sister was the boss. The improvised security hat added to the illusion since she still wouldn't wear the official purple one.
Hedy took the lie in stride and didn't even blink. "Hedy Fitzgerald. Why are you people filming at my business without permissions? There are children here."
"I confiscated their cameras and already took the footage out," Ruby told her cheerfully.
"You what?" one of the men who was in the van snapped, sounding a little panicked.
"Uh...uh Calum... that paperwork you were supposed to straighten out?" the man that had been inside with the woman coughed.
"I still say they're perverts," Ruby told Hedy with an almost perfect innocent act. "They've got all the warning signs the teachers told us to look out for sis. Plus the creepy white van! I'm just waiting for them to offer me candy."
Hedy waved her down while the whole group glared at the teen, clearly annoyed. "Who are you? Who's in charge?"
A guy with black hair and blue eyes turned his scowl away from Ruby. "That's me. Calum Keely. This is my crew. Shania," he pointed to the brunette woman who looked so offended Ruby was waiting for her to puff up like a peacock. "Mason," he pointed to the blond who still looked kind of panicked at the idea of Ruby touching the cameras. "And Kevin." He pointed at the last guy, also a blond although it was clearly dyed that way. A bad dye job too. His hair looked like straw.
Hedy couldn't really judge too hard since her hair still had a blue tint to it, despite Ruby saying her experimental dye would wash out. Weeks ago.
Ruby just said it looked good on her.
"And I'm Ruby," the teen piped up. "Now why are you being creepy in our restaurant?"
Calum sniffed and fished out a business card from his back pocket. It was wrinkled and bent. "We're a professional research crew looking to document and record evidence of the paranormal."
Document and record are the same thing dumbass, Hedy thought as she took the card. "Paranormal?"
"Wait, you're one of those crappy ghost hunter groups?" Ruby asked incredulously. She found them funny but she still thought the shows they'd watched the previous night were crappy. And they kind of were. They'd only watched the bad ones. Watching ghosts do antics on camera made it much more enjoyable.
Shania sniffed. "So you're a skeptic."
It took everything Hedy had not to snort and she could sense Goldy struggle to hold in her snickers.
Ruby had no such manners. She snorted. "Yeah right. I believe in ghosts but I believe you guys are also fakes just in it for the money."
Hedy nodded. "There's a competition a large production company is doing right now. Winner essentially gets the funding for a full season."
They looked surprised she knew about it.
"That explains why they came here," Ruby rolled her eyes. "The infamous pizzeria. With that reputation they probably thought it would be easy to win."
Kevin spoke up. He seemed...a little out of it. "We uh...we wanted to ask you folks some questions...Maybe spend the night. That'd be dope."
Ruby raised a very judgemental eyebrow and looked at Hedy, mouthing 'dope' incredulously.
Calum shushed Kevin frantically. "Uh yeah. If it's not too much trouble, we were hoping to do an overnight investigation."
Hedy frowned at him. "That's something you arrange over email or phone before you show up and start filming."
Mason glared pointedly at Calum who ignored him.
Hedy watched Calum, who was starting to remind her of a particular kind of man who tended to approach her.
"I'm sure we can work something out, sweetheart?"
Ruby bristled next to her, her metaphorical hackles going up.
I'm going to kick you in the balls if you say that again, Hedy thought. "Watch it. Only my boyfriend is allowed to call me sweetheart."
Shania rolled her eyes but the men didn't seem too horrified by their friend's behavior.
"Older brother is also a cop," Ruby added dryly.
That made at least Mason a tiny bit nervous apparently. Look, a speck of common sense did exist in this group.
Kevin looked like he might have been worried, if he didn't also look kinda too high to care.
"Whatever you say. Are you sure there's not some kind of arrangement we can figure out? It's just for one night?" He seemed to have not heard Ruby, stepping just slightly closer and leaning towards Hedy with a flirtatious look.
"Creep," Ruby 'coughed' again. Then she looked at Hedy with that familiar 'I have an idea you're going to both love and hate' look. She bent down to whisper to her. "Invite that group you're always fangirling over to make it fair, and we'll mess with them all and see if any of them are legitimate."
"I don't 'fangirl'," Hedy defended, not even questioning that Ruby had noticed. "I just think it's cool they're based so close and do all their stuff on their own channel."
Ruby gave her a disbelieving look. "You react like I do when I see Foxy whenever they upload a new video."
Hedy rolled her eyes. "I'm not sure I've seen any actual ghosts on their videos either," Hedy pointed out. "But they are more respectful about how they go about it…" She shot a look at Calum, who just looked annoyed they were whispering right in front of them.
"It'll be fun Hedy," Ruby whined. "You can show me how you did your mastermind thing from the hidden room. And you know Goldy will have a ton of fun. Call it practice for Fazbear's Fright."
"What other group?" Mason asked.
Hedy ignored him. "Let me write up a contract and email you." She waved the business card. "And I'm inviting another group."
"What?!" Calum was clearly unhappy with this and Ruby smirked at him smugly. It was very clear he'd already decided he hated the teen. "That can't...work. They-We'd be interfering with each other's investigation."
"That's what you're getting for not arranging things like a professional group," Hedy said, and she took pleasure in Calum's irritation at being patronized. "Take it or leave it."
"We'll take it! We'll take it," Mason said hurriedly.
Calum snatched his arm and dragged him a couple feet away. "Keep your mouth shut, man. That was the agreement. I run the show and be the host, and you get to do all your creepy nerd stuff and stay behind the camera."
"We don't have time to look for somewhere else," Mason argued.
All this whispering right where everyone else can hear would be ridiculous if it wasn't so funny.
Hedy wasn't completely sure if she actually heard Goldy saying or thinking that.
Calum and Mason lowered their voices and argued for a couple more seconds before turning around like nothing was wrong. Shania looked impatient and Kevin was very interested in a reflection bouncing off one of Hedy's wheels.
"A couple of things," Calum said. "If another team is coming, we want access to the place every night for a week. Not one night."
Ruby snorted. "You really think you're in any position to be making demands?" she asked. "How about you try asking Hedy nicely instead and maybe she'll say yes? Geez you're entitled."
Calum glared at Ruby then looked at Hedy expectantly like his demand was completely reasonable. "One week. We'll put up with another group and sign your contract. Deal?"
Hedy glanced at the door frame. They were all just inside, avoiding the warm weather outside. They really walked into that one. She had a few ideas. Of course it would be uncomfortable for the bots, but Calum had pissed her off…
"You're never going to be unsupervised," Ruby piped up. "The bots are damn expensive and we don't want people messing with them to get the footage they need."
Shania squinted. "And who exactly would be 'supervising'?"
Hedy snagged the elbow of Ruby's sleeve before she could answer. "Our resident Night Guard. Mike. I can call him in to meet you and let you in, since we won't be available all night. Ruby is still a growing teenager you know. I have to make sure my dear little sister gets her beauty sleep."
Ruby shot Hedy a glare. "If you think I'm missing this mess then you've got another thing coming sis. I've snuck out of the house before. I'll do it again. You know I know this place better than Mike."
Hedy ceded. Hard to make a plan right in front of the people they were trying to mess with. She sighed. "Very well. You can stay the night too."
"Ooh hold on a second," Mason stammered. "We...we have very sensitive equipment. We can't have some kid wandering around a-and touching…"
"I'm sure Ruby will be respectful of the property that belongs to it's due owners," Hedy said carefully. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a restaurant to run."
"Wait! Can we get some interviews with a few of your staff. Just uh… basic questions about the history of the place and the u-urban legends?" Mason asked quickly.
"Not until a contract is in place. Now that everything's been discussed, do we have a deal?" she asked sweetly and Hedy felt the building sit up and take notice, eagerly waiting for the response. She was certain the building only got excited for Ruby's deals.
Calum glared at Mason and answered before the relieved and excited man could. "Sure. Whatever. It's a deal. Just email me that contract today, eh sweetheart?" He gestured at the business card and winked at Hedy before turning and walking away.
The others were a little out of sync and followed awkwardly a moment later.
Hedy waved as they left. "Welcome to hell, asshole," she said under her breath with a pleasant smile as the building finished settling.
"I am going to make the creep's life hell," Ruby hissed. "Call your group. I've got to get back to work. Oh, and I'm not calling Mike the night guard. Not even for the act."
And she walked off, no doubt plotting what she was going to do that night.
"This could be… fun," Goldy said. "I'll tell the others. They're going to be annoyed that game night is cancelled. Also, I'm messing with the guy that was being a creep to you. You can't convince me otherwise." She was gone before Hedy could answer.
