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Chapter 5
What's Ruby's Life Like Again?
Ruby groaned.
"I don't think I can watch another one of these damn reality TV shows. What even is this show anymore?!"
Ruby, Chica, and Mangle had stayed up all night successfully. They'd made ten buckets of slime and ate popcorn and watched way, way too much TV.
The show they were currently watching, Kieralla's Total, started out good. It was a reality show where they take two high school enemies, make them chat online for a bit, and agree to meet somewhere. Then, when they meet, they realize who they were talking to, and drama usually ensues.
The show started out really funny, like with a girl called Kaymin throwing her dinner in her enemy, Josh's face. Dumb funny slapstick like that.
But now, on the 5th season, you could totally tell the show was fake, and with the worst actors and actresses too. It had been a looooong, long night for them.
Chica moaned and reached for the remote half-heartedly, swatting at the air.
"Urgggg, it's so far awaaaay…"
Her hand flopped and she groaned again. Ruby looked around the blurry room, her eyes half-closed.
"Where's Mangle?" She asked wearily. Her question was answered by a hissing noise from under the bed. Ruby slid down and looked under the bed.
Sharp black-painted claws dug into the hard wood. A heaving sound followed it and Mangle pulled herself out, her black pleated skirt flattening.
"No more. I literally can't take it. Please." Mangle growled. Chica nodded.
"Agreed. I can't reach the remote though..." Chica mumbled.
There was a loud creaky sound of the door opening. Freddy walked in and saw the room.
Wrappers from various different chocolates and candies lay on the carpet. About twenty empty cans of soda stood up on top of each other in a sugar-induced challenge to stack the most cans. Bits of popcorn were strewn across the floor, not to mention the nail polish smeared randomly everywhere. Plus, the three girls didn't look so good from a night of partying. Especially Ruby, who wasn't very used to staying up all night, unlike the two animatronic girls. Freddy slapped his forehead.
"Alright. I don't know what happened here, I don't want to know what happened here, but there are three things that need to happen. One, Ruby needs to go. Two, Chica and Mangle need to clean this mess up. And three, someone needs to make breakfast, because Bonnie and Foxy are starving, and you know how they get when they're cranky." Freddy instructed them.
There was a huge crashing sound from the party room that brought everyone's attention to it.
"AND SO, THE GREAT PIRATE FOXY YELLED, 'AVAST ME HEARTIES! WE WILL DESTROY THESE SCUMMY SEAS!" Foxy narrated loudly.
"SHUT UP YOU BIG-" And then a whole string of terrible cuss words came from Bonnie's mouth.
Freddy looked at them with his hands on his hips like, see? Ruby sighed and got up from her deathbed on the floor. She dusted off her black-and-white checkered shorts and adjusted her red tank top.
"Well, luckily my mom's out of town for work this weekend, and Raven knows I went somewhere. She doesn't really care though, luckily. Specifically because her boyfriend is coming over tonight, so I'm going to be somewhere."
Chica glanced at her.
"Where?" She asked, a twinge of curiosity in her tone.
Ruby flapped her hand dismissively. "Oh anywhere Raven and her boyfriend aren't."
Raven's boyfriend, Chester, was actually a pretty nice guy. He'd been dating Raven for around four years. He was very kind to Raven, and loved Rylaina, but he didn't really like Ruby. Which was fine because Ruby didn't really like him back. Of course, that was probably because they'd known each other since Ruby was eight, and she'd chased him around at school yelling, "CHESTER HAS COOTIES! CHESTER HAD COOTIES!" and got all the other third-grade and fourth-grade girls to join in.
Ah, the good old days.
Ruby smiled and packed her things into her small backpack. It was fine, she didn't have much to pack. Just her water bottle filled with not water, but Crocade, her red-strapped watch, and her iPhone, in case something bad happened or they needed instant entertainment at the sleepover. Honestly, Ruby hadn't even expected them to have a microwave, let alone a huge TV in Chica's room.
Mangle sat down (or flopped down) in a catlike position and curled her fluffy fox tail around her. She waved to Ruby, who'd just finished backing and was heading out the door. Freddy smiled at her and got out of her way as she passed him.
"Bye, Rubes!" Mangle called as Ruby walked down the hall to exit the pizzeria.
~lll~
Ruby strolled down the very aesthetically pleasing street. Lights turned red, then yellow, then green. Buses honked and beeped, and strangers on motorcycles gave her a thumbs up sign. She smiled and returned the gesture.
She'd taken this road many times as a child walking with her parents and Raven. It had been nice back then. Two stable parents, plenty of friends, a funny big sister. That was before her father was killed in a car accident, her mother started working full-time and got pregnant with Rylie accidentally, and before Raven started to leave for her art clubs more and more.
Suddenly, Ruby, a thirteen-year-old girl who'd lost her father just two years ago, had to deal with hiring snotty baby-sitters for newborn Rylaina, making dinner for her and her sisters, and trying to keep some form of a social life. Raven was obviously a big help too, she was just busy with her scholarship art school. If she didn't work hard at it, she could get kicked out.
Ruby had started to comfort eat. She ate more and more, till she realized what she was doing and had to force herself to stop it. It wasn't necessarily an eating disorder, but she had to exercise off the excess pounds, which took a lot of hard work. Her old friends, who Ruby thought would be loyal, deserted her.
Ruby wanted to laugh at them now, because they'd left her when she was sad and lonely and had a forehead of zits. Now she was super-gorgeous and super-happy, so take that Sahanna and Maisie!
Besides, her mother had a boyfriend, Jared now. And while Ruby disliked him (he was the 'dumb rich jock' type, basic and boring), Ruby knew that they'd break up anytime, so she wasn't too worried about her mom.
She turned a corner, down the street that little kids were told not to go down. It wasn't the best street, full of graffiti artists and wild partyers and a weird old man who could possibly be a drug seller, Ruby wasn't sure.
Even though it was crappy, that neighborhood was her home, and her only home. Plus, the neighbors weren't all bad. Some, like the old lady across from them, were actually quite lovely and sweet.
She finally reached the third house on the street, small and wooden with a small lawn of dead summer grass and covered in little brown birds, which flapped away the moment Ruby grew close. Sure, her house wasn't pretty, but it was home, cozy and familiar.
But that, and more, would change soon, as she was about to find out.
Ruby reached into her backpack and pulled out her house key. She turned it in the lock…
And her phone rang. She pulled it out of her pocket to see a message from her mom to have a FaceCall. She clicked 'allow', and waited for it to load...
And was greeted by her mother, wearing an elegant navy blue dress and elaborate makeup that looked pricey, holding an expensive-looking bottle of champagne. She squealed, taking Ruby by surprise and waved her champagne in the air. Ruby couldn't quite tell where her mother was, but it looked like someplace fancy.
"Darling, we're going to be rich! Jared proposed to me! Oh Ruby, isn't this exciting? We can move out of this dump, and Jared is so wonderful, and-"
Ruby cut her mother off.
"Are you kidding?! You're going to marry him. Great." Ruby stormed into the house, throwing her boots to the ground. Ruby couldn't believe it. Sure, her mother's boyfriend wasn't bad, persay, but he was so...Ruby couldn't think of another way to say 'unlike her dad'. He was so different from her mother's usual type! So what, was her mom some kind of gold digger now?
"Oh great. A new dad. Hurrah." Ruby said, though she muttered the last part so her mom didn't hear it. She just sighed and faked a smile. "That's great mom. Really, it is. But, uh, the signal's really bad here, it might crash…"
Her mother started to say something, but she quickly pressed 'end call' before her mother could pick up on what she was doing. Then, she ran to her room.
~lll~
Ruby did the normal teenager thing and took out her journal to write some dark and depressing poetry while she listened to SaD, a one-man-band that sang and played various sad-sounding instruments. Or mad-sounding ones. Whatever you needed, SaD had it.
Ruby soon discovered she did not have a knack for poetry when all she'd come up with was:
My mom's engaged
i feel like I'm caged.
My sister's really cool
My other hasn't started school
Now I'm kind of depressed
My life is a mess
All I want is a key
To unlock inside of me
But all I have is the lock
So I guess I'll just lock myself away.
Ruby stared at what she'd created in horror. Okay, I need to stop. She decided. She instead took out her phone to read fanfiction, a habit from when she was eleven.
Regret. Loneliness. Fear. Weird. Fading. These words haunt me.
I can't live a day without them reminding me of my regrets, loneliness, and fear.
I can't live a single hour without getting reminded that I'm weird.
I can't live a second without remembering that I'm fading.
Fading.
Ruby's deep hazel eyes opened wide. This fanfiction seemed really good, at least better than what she wrote. It was usually really hard to find a fanfiction that wasn't super, super-low-quality, or really boring and written in block paragraphs, or (Ruby shuddered) lemons...
She read a few more pages of the book, which were equally as good as the first. Ruby smiled. She felt inspired, so she took out her journal again and decided to write a story. Ruby grabbed her favourite black pen with a tiny real ruby at the top, one that her dad gave her, and started to write.
Chapter one
It was a dark and stormy night Blake was walking down the street. he heard a sound and he turned around "what was that" he asked but nobody was there so he kept walking. But then he heared it again and he was getting really nervous "whos their?" he asked again but still nobody was their. Blake took out his sword that was in his backpack at all times. Suddenly a black cloacked guy stepped out of the shadows. "hello why were you following me?" Blake asked all confused "we are here to kill you" "wait no what did I do" blake asked confused "you know what you did" the man said
Ruby slammed her book shut. Someone was coming, and her book was certainly not good enough for any art critics that happened to be around her house. Which would be weird but considering where she'd been last night, an art critic in her house was normal. The doorknob turned, and Ruby braced herself for attack. Someone stepped into the room. It was…
"Ruby!" Rylaina screeched. She ran over to Ruby's bed on cute little unstable toddler legs. Ruby smiled at her little sister. She lifted Rylie up onto her bed, who beamed and crossed her legs.
"Hey Ry-Ry. Did you hear about mom and Jared?" She asked her little sister. It was kind of sudden, but Ruby had to know what her little half sister thought.
Rylie screwed up her face cutely and put her hands on her hips.
"Yea, and I don' like it. I don' wanna new daddy." Rylie said, playing with her jet-black curls, so much like her mother's. Her bright blue eyes, unfortunately, had been inherited by her damn father who'd left her mother and refused to pay child support for Rylie.
Ruby sighed, happy at least because someone shared her negative opinion on her mother's engagement. Raven, she assumed, would be the same. She leaned over to her little sister and hugged her.
"It's gonna be okay, Ry-Ry. You're still my favourite little sis, and you always will be." Ruby comforted her sister. Rylie looked into her sister's dark hazel eyes with her bright blue ones, with a wisdom way beyond her three years.
"You're my favourite sissy too, Ru-by."
~lll~
Ruby walked down the street. She needed a breath of fresh air from the chaos of her mother, and a hot gooey cinnamon roll from Missy's Bakery. She turned down an alleyway, a shortcut to Missy's that she'd taken many times and saved plenty of time. Ruby enjoyed people-watching, so she looked around, her gaze flickering from left to right.
She spotted two guys smoking pot, a bored-looking girl swiping right on her phone, a big man with muscley arms covered in tattoos and short black hair in the middle of the alley. The usual crowd of people in the alley, though there were usually more of each type, especially the bored-looking girls and guys smoking.
The bulky guy in the middle of the alley, she noticed, was also in the middle of her path. She smiled politely and tried not to make eye contact, something she'd learned from her mom when she was little. But instead of him moving, he walked forward so he was completely blocking Ruby's way.
"Well well well. What do we have here?" He asked her, his German accent ringing through her ears. Ruby tried to act calm, but inside, her heart was racing. This is how people get kidnapped. She thought.
"Excuse me, can I just get past you?" She asked nervously. Instead of getting out of her way, which would have been polite, the man just laughed.
"Are you lost, girlie? Want me to take you home?" He asked. Ruby's breath was coming in short.
The two guys and one bored girl looked at the man and Ruby, and high-tailed it out of there.
Cowards.
"N-No. I'm going to Missy's Bakery, and you'd better get the hell out of my way, or I'll call the cops." Ruby's voice came out strong at the end and she glared at him, her boots making her seem tall. The man grinned, revealing ugly cracked teeth.
"A little spitfire, ain't you. Well come on to my van and I'll show you something fun, little girlie."
Ruby responded by kicking him...somewhere rather painful.
The man's red sweaty face darkened to a deep purplish colour and he reached out with one of his huge arms and slapped her hard in the cheek. Ruby ignored the pain and punched him in the chest, hard as a brick. He stumbled back, then ran forward and grabbed her by the neck, pressing hard on her windpipe. Ruby gasped and choked for breath. This was how it would end. Alone, dark, in a smelly old alleyway. Her vision turned spotty with colours as the world grew dark.
The last thing she would ever see was the ugly man's leering satisfied grin. He really needs to shave his face… her mind thought wearily.
Suddenly, something rose from the pile of trash behind them. The man turned around, his grinning face becoming one of terror. He let go of Ruby, and she fell against the brick wall, gasping for breath. The thing grew in size. It looked like...well, it looked like a giant hunk of metal and wires stuffed together.
Whatever it was, it was making loud growling noises that were aimed at them.
It reached out with one of its long wires and grabbed the man by the neck, coiling and tightening, just as he had done to Ruby. Ruby probably would have been up and running by now, but she was far too dazed now to get up.
Plus, the dark part of her mind kind of wanted to see what the thing would do to him.
It tightened and more wires shot out, tangling in his hair and his neck. He tried to scream but it came out as a hoarse whisper, a plea for help. The thing slammed him against the wall a few times, then lifted him in the air and dropped him hard. Ruby could hear some part of the guy break, something she couldn't name. The man looked at Ruby, desperation in his eyes. He held out his hand, wet, sticky, and slick with blood as a terrified apology and a final silent plea to help him.
Ruby could have forgiven what he'd done to her and taken his hand and called an ambulance. She could have saved him and been a hero of sorts.
But she just stared at his hand in silence and did nothing as the creature reached out with its long tentacle-like wires and savagely tore his throat open.
Ruby sat there in silence, in shock at what had just happened. Blood, crimson and shiny, leaked out of his body, staining his torn clothes and soaking into the cracks in the concrete. The creature made a strange growling sound and slunk off to the trash bins. But it had killed it's last kill, and it shuddered, then slumped to the ground, dead and deactivated.
Ruby leaned over the creature's limp body.
"Thank you," she whispered.
Something caught her eye, however. The creature's wires had loosened, leaving something blue and glowing in what Ruby figured was a chest cavity. She took a cautious step forward. Then another. The metal creature was completely still, except for the weird glowing thing.
As Ruby got closer, she felt a strange hunger to hold the blue glowy thing. She opened up the cavity, ripping wires out. The blue thing squirmed, obviously trying to get free. Ruby wasn't sure if it was alive, or even what it was.
She reached for it and grabbed it. It was smooth and emitted warm heat. As she held it in her hands, she felt an urge to cradle it closer, so that's what she did.
After a short period of holding the thing, it squirmed for a moment, then floated out of her arms and twirled up, up, up in the sky. Ruby watched it go, then stood up.
Her gaze flicked over to the bloody and battered body of the dead man. There was another glowy blue blob rising from him. It sped up into the sky after the other. Ruby watched them until she couldn't see either of them anymore.
Ruby smiled to herself and restarted her walk down the alleyway to go to Missy's, still craving that delicious warm gooey cinnamon roll more than ever. But now, she'd have to have extra raisins and cream cheese frosting and-ah, why not, probably a spicy, steaming mug of hot cocoa as well.
Nothing like a warm meal to cheer you up from the world's many problems, both normal and paranormal.
A/N
Okay kids, if a man tells you to go into his van, try to run away and yell and scream as loud as you can and if he grabs you kick him and bite him and scratch him and yell and scream okay children? Okay.
There I'm done for the safety message.
Here's my random question: do you think that cats are liquids?
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Bye for now!
~Ghost