I do not own the Loud House or Five Nights at Freddy's. All rights go to Nickelodeon and Scott Cawthon
Sleeping in till at about one in the afternoon. Bobby didn't really have to worry about getting ready for any of his shifts today as for besides his third night at Freddy's, he mostly has the day off. Which is absolutely perfect as that meant he can entirely focus the day on getting ready for the dinner with the Louds tonight.
He has a lot of things to prepare for this very important outing and the only way to get fully prepared for it was by taking the money he put aside for such occasions and going on a shopping trip throughout the town.
What he got from each store he visited today; was a blue shirt with a matching pair of pants, a gift basket full of Lori's favorite flowers that's complete with a stuffed animal embezzled right in the middle of it with a "I heart you," message on its stomach, and finally to really impress Lori's father. Bobby also gotten a brand new cowbell just for him. Something he's sure to love with how much Lori stated on how much he plays it.
Getting everything that he absolutely needed from the shopping spree. Bobby returns home with just three hours left till he leaves for the dinner.
But before eventually heading out. He first wanted to look extremely presentable to both Lori and her family, so without any hesitation he heads into the bathroom, scrubbing himself extra shiny clean till he sparkled in the light, shaved off any facial hair, combed his hair into a Elvis like hairstyle, put in some mouthwash, mint, and brushed his teeth till they were sparkling white, rubbed on several pairs of deodorant, then finally; he placed on his new pair of clothes that he totally completed with his red, lucky tie.
Finally coming out of the bathroom after spending a whole hour in there. Bobby then goes online to read up on what not to do when meeting up with your partner's family. "Okay; so don't talk about politics or play monopoly. Got it. Man! This sure is some great advice."
Reading up some more helpful advice on the internet, time seemed to have gone by rather quickly because before he knew it, Bobby now only has about one hour left.
It's about the time he should really head on out, but not before showing his mom his new outfit just for her own personal opinion on it.
"So what do you think of my outfit mom?"
Inspecting both of her son's outfit and the gift in his arms. Maria gently smiled and rose up her hand to give him a complete thumps up. "You look great Roberto. Those clothes really make you look handsome."
"Thanks mom, and do you think Lori is going to love my gifts?"
"Of course. Those flowers are beautiful, the lion is cute, and I'm sure Mr. Loud is absolutely going to love that cowbell."
"I sure hope so mom. The guy who I bought this from said that it was the greatest sounding cowbell he had."
"Really?"
"Well; he actually said the same, exact thing to the person who bought a cowbell before me."
"Oh. Well; I'm sure he's going to like it regardlessly." Maria reassured.
"Only one way to find out." Checking his watch for a brief moment, he should really be heading out right about now. He doesn't want to be even one second late.
"I gotta get going now. Bye mom."
"Good luck Roberto." Patting him on the shoulder for a boost of confidence. Maria waves goodbye to her son as he leaves the house, hopefully he'll be back before she leaves for work tonight as she has something important to ask him. Something she's been thinking over ever since his first night out on the job.
Happily walking down the pathway, Bobby met up with his sister, who had just came to a stop on her skateboard. "Oh Bobby. I'm glad I caught you. There's something important I really gotta tell you."
"Don't worry sis. I remembered to put on some underwear this time." He won't be making that embarrassing mistake again, not after finding out about it, while using the bathroom at Jean Juan's French Mex Buffet.
"It's not that Bobby. It's ab-"
"Don't worry. I didn't forget the flowers."
"No. If you could just listen to me for just one second. It's about your j-"
"Oh my gosh! The inside of my left, pant pocket is showing." Tucking it back into his pants, Bobby was now a hundred percent presentable. "That was a close one. Thanks for the warning Ronnie Anne. I'll see you later."
Without another word, Bobby strides off for his dinner date. Leaving behind a dismayed Ronnie Anne, who can only place her hand on her forehead for this was going to get awkward, she can just feel it in her bones.
"Oh please don't bring up his job."
Departing from the bus at the street corner of Franklin Avenue. Bobby; with a chipper in his step, happily whistled his way down the street.
Through his happy walk down the block, it doesn't take very long for Lori's house; a simple two story, white house with a boomerang on the roof or tree with a swing attached to it; to come into his view. Honestly; despite the few toys on the ground, for a house with a good number of children inhabiting the place, it has a rather clean lawn.
Stepping onto the pathway, Bobby walks all the way up to the door and gives it about three knocks before taking one step back. He just lowered down his hand, when the door opened and a smiling Lori scooped him into a hug.
"Bobby! Your literally on time." She squealed before releasing him from the loving embrace.
"I wouldn't be a second late, babe. By the way. I got you these for the special occasion." Raising up the gift basket, Lori gasps in delight before grabbing ahold of both the flowers and stuffed lion.
"Aw! Boo-Boo Bear! You didn't have to get me anything!"
"I know, but I figured that for such a special occasion. I should at least get a couple of things for you."
"Aw! Your so sweet." Finally laying her eyes down on the cowbell, Lori's expression switched to a bit of confusion. "Um. What's with the cowbell?"
"Remember when you said that your dad has a great enthusiasm for cowbells?" Bobby asked in which Lori slowly nodded.
"Well; I figured that in order for me to get into your dad's good graces. I get him a brand new cowbell as a gift." He explained.
"Ah. Very clever Boo-Boo Bear. But now you should really come on in. Don't want to let out the heat or any bugs to come in."
Stepping into the house, the first thing Bobby saw is one of Lori's sisters sitting on the couch, applying a fresh coat of pink nail polish onto her finger nails. "Hey Leni."
Glancing up from her delicate work, Leni happily greets Bobby with the hand holding onto the brush. "Hi Bobby. What brings you here?"
"You don't remember Leni? Bobby's joining us for dinner tonight." Lori gently reminded causing her sister to think for about a minute as she did mention it more than once during the past week.
"Oh yeah. Well Bobby; you are totes going to love tonight's dinner. Dad's cooking up something special for all of us."
"What's that?" Bobby enthusiastically asked for he can practically taste it now.
"I don't know. That's why it's special silly." She beamed before going right back to her nails.
"I can hardly wait? So when does dinner start babe?"
"At least about thirty minutes, which gives me literally plenty of time to give you a quick tour around the house."
"Cool. I always wanted to explore your house." Glancing back down to the cowbell for a moment, Bobby almost forgot to give Mr. Loud his gift. "First. I better give this to your dad."
"Do that after dinner. My dad gets easily emotional and none of us likes soggy food." Lori stated before gently grabbing ahold of Bobby's hand and uses her other hand to show off the living room.
"Anyway; This area is the living room, the door behind the couch is our parents bedroom, on your right is the dining room which leads into the kitchen. With that completely covered, time to head upstairs."
Leading him up them, Bobby took the chance to glance on over to the photos on the wall, which showed Lori and her sisters in various stages of their lives, he also took notice of the faint outlines of old picture frames that used to hang here before being taken off the wall.
How odd. He wonders what happened to those picture frames?
Reaching the top of the stairs at last. Bobby stood in a hallway with two doors at either end, one was closed, while the other one is halfway open to show that it's the bathroom. Speaking of doors; there are three on the right and two on the left, the one in front of him and the other door right to it are firmly shut, while the one near the bathroom is slightly open ajar.
"What's in this room?" He asked his girlfriend, who suddenly became very hesitant with a sorrowful and greatly troubled look on her face. She knew this was eventually going to come up and she mentally prepared herself for this, but the feeling still hurt.
"This was once two of my sisters room."
Guilt suddenly strikes Bobby hard for it wasn't hard on who Lori was referring to. "I take it-"
"Yes. My missing siblings. All the closed doors you see were once their rooms, except for Luna's. It's virtually worse since these rooms remained completely unchanged for years, except when my mom goes in to clean them from any dust and cobwebs that start to linger. While most of Luan's stuff have been safely stored away up in the attic, literally the only thing in that room that once belonged to her is the bunk bed, where Luna uses the bottom bunk to place either her music sheets, clothes, or smaller instruments on."
It's very hard for Luna as that bunk bed serves to sadly remind her that her roommate is no longer there with her. It gets so bad that on some days, Luna wished that she would wake up and get a fresh pie in the face that would've been fallowed by her sister's trademark laugh.
As for the other rooms; most of the family keep out of them as like a graveyard or an Egyptian tomb, they were cold, dark, and preserved all of her siblings old stuff that waited for their owners to either turn them on or pick them up. Whenever they do go in them, it was always to have a good thought of past happier memories of them, and then they would become shallow shells of themselves with their mother being the worst one out of all of them for after she comes in to clean them. She would spend the next hour completely to herself in either her room or down in the basement, being deathly silent with a very bleak expression.
"Oh geez. I'm so sorry I brought it up Lori." Punching himself slightly on the forehead, Bobby couldn't believe he brought up a very touchy subject to his girlfriend.
"That's okay Bobby. I knew it was going to come up sometime tonight." Releasing a short sigh, Lori pulled Bobby away from the closed door and to the much more welcoming atmosphere of her and Leni's room.
"Now here's my room. As you can see, it's literally the greatest room in the whole house, even if I have to share it with Leni."
"Awesome." Stepping further into the room together, Bobby marveled at every single detail on Lori's side of the room, especially at the blue sweater with a wolf howling at the moon, hanging proudly in the closet.
"Oh! There's the sweater I gave you."
"I wear it on only special occasions. Specifically when I want to be all warm and comfortable." Lori warmly remarked.
"I do the same thing with the sweater you gave me, babe."
"Aw Bobby!" Looking into each other's eyes, the world around them seemed to have gone pink with valentine hearts floating in mid air. It was such a warm moment, they leaned in for a loving kiss.
"Ah! Bloody rubbish!"
Surprised by the sudden interruption. The couple looked back over to the room across from them, where sounds of a electric guitar played out a few notes before stopping all together as a frustrated growl came right directly after it.
"What's going on over there?"
"Oh that's just Luna." Lori dismissed before getting back to business by gently placing a hand on Bobby's cheek. "Now where were we?"
Bobby would've gone back to their current affairs to, however the curiosity over what's going on in that room overall gets the best of him. "Raincheck on that babe. I gotta see what's going on."
Heading his way on over with a disgruntled Lori right behind him. They silently opened the door a bit wider, where the two find a room filled up with a drum set and cases for instruments here and there on the floor, posters of Mick Swagger and other rock stars plastered on the walls, a dresser with one of Luna's shirts hanging out of the top open drawer, the bunk bed with Luna's music sheets and backpack laid out on the bottom bunk. Then finally there was the frustrated Luna herself, sitting on a chair, trying in so much frustration to play out the correct notes on her guitar.
Holding in a sigh, this was another thing Lori got anxious about for shortly after the incident; her sister expressed out her grief by listening to punk rock music, the type where she can barely understand the words from how much deep shouting there was in those songs.
Poor Luna also suffered from intense mood swings that made her perfectly calm one moment, then without warning burst into several angry stages that made everyone keep a wide enough distance from her as she can say some very nasty things to you or outright threaten to give you a good jamming session with her fists, if you don't immediately back off.
Lori perfectly understands on how her sister got like this for as like her and everyone else in the family; Luna had been very close to the missing siblings. If things could have gone differently, then Luna would've been happy, play regular rock music, or perhaps even hooked up with Sam; the girl she has a deep crush on, but stayed away from for as with her unstable mood swings, Luna deeply feared she would've become one of those abusive partners to Sam. Something Luna would never want to put Sam through.
Her parents have gotten her therapy to help her out with these mood swings, and while it did help her out a bit. The mood swings remained like a thick cloud of volcanic ash that may clear out in about twenty years from now. At least, that's what the therapist's said.
Lori and the rest of the family can only hope for Luna's sake.
As of right now however. Luna continued to play out to her heart's desire to get this stupid note right, while being completely oblivious to the two newcomers that watched her from the doorway.
Bobby goes to say something, but Lori clasps her hand over his mouth, then silently lead him away while also slowly and quietly closing the door. Getting themselves back to the stairs, she judges that they were a far enough distance away for her to completely remove her hand from Bobby's mouth.
"Why did you do that babe?" Her sister really looked like she needed some help, so why did Lori pull him away like that?
"Trust me Bobby. When Luna's in a bad mood, it's best to keep a good enough distance away till she has a much more better attitude."
"Attitude?"
"She can be very hurtful with her words when she's in a bad mood. So in order for your feelings to be spared, I had to get you out of there before she noticed us."
"Why is she like that?" He gently asked.
"Grief can change you drastically and healing takes time for different people. Take Leni for instance. After the incident, she became obsessed with printing out missing fliers and posts online in the hopes of someone finding them, while also ignoring everything to do with fashion and hygiene. She only started to act like her old self at about five months ago. Then there's Lisa. She became obsessed with maintaining life. Right up to the point where she tried to clone our missing siblings, which so horribly failed."
Cringing in fright from the memory of the sibling frankenstein. Lori absolutely shuttered upon thinking about the way it had Lincoln's hair, Luan's teeth, Lola's and Lana's legs and feet, not to mention having Lynn's iron stomach that wouldn't be complete without having such a toxic fart, that it completely killed the pot of flowers and bugs in the room.
It was so horrifying, Lisa had to place the monstrosity sibling right into cold status and ship it off to Finland for safe keeping.
That was a memory from their family's history they all wanted to forget about right along with other terrible events.
But besides the creepy clone, hybrid thing. Lisa had also claimed on how she was so close to finding the very essence of life itself by doing various experiments and research. From what this suppose essence to life is, Lisa has called it remnant.
She is just so close to discovering this remnant stuff, that it's just at the tip of her fingers.
Speaking of Lisa. A good amount of flashing light was appearing right from her room, right along with the sounds of tools clinking and grinding together.
Curious; the couple peered into the room, where they find Lisa busily working on the chest of a robotic endoskeleton with a torch.
"Whoa! Is that a robot?" Bobby asked in amazement.
"Yeah. Lisa has a thing for building robots." Lori however dismissed for after seeing all sorts of her sister's robots, she is all too used to it by now.
"So what robot is this?"
"Beats me, but let's go find out." Stepping into the room, Lori patiently waits for Lisa to turn off the torch before addressing her.
"Hey Lisa."
Turning to regard the two, Lisa lifted up her mask with her trademark deadpanned expression. "Eldest sibling and her mate. This isn't really a good time to participate in chit chat as I want to at least complete the torso of my upcoming: MIMIC bot before dinner is called out."
"MIMIC bot?" Bobby repeated in interest.
"Indeed. This robot; when completed, will serve as a task bot, who will copy whatever the host is doing. In other words; the perfect lab assistant for me."
"Don't you already have Tod for that?" Lori pointed out.
"Tod can only do so much. Besides with the current affairs of Tod suffering from a rusty arm. It's wise for me to make a replacement unit, until he's all better."
"When will it be finished? This robot sounds awesome." Bobby exclaimed.
"Based around my current working conditions. I fully calculate it'll be fully operational by the beginning of next week."
"KIDS! DINNER'S READY!"
"Of course. I fully expect several delays during my progress of constructing it." Pushing up a lever on the wall, the table with the robot disappears into the floor, then is swiftly replaced by a nightstand with a lamp on it.
"Now then. Let us consume our father's nightly, nutritious meal." With that, the three walked on out of the room, then join both Luna and Leni, (who just put her nail polish back in her room), at the stairs.
"This rhythm is completely bogus dudes! I tried for three, bloody hours to get it, and I still don't freaking have it!" Luna complain.
"Don't worry Luna. I'm sure your eventually going to get it." Leni sweetly said in reassurance. Only to receive a series of angry grumbles from her younger sister.
Coming down to the bottom of the stairs, the mouth watering scent of Mr. Loud's cooking strikes Bobby's nose like a fist. He didn't know what it was, but it sure smelled good, why; he can pick up the strong smell of both mash potatoes and corn.
Entering into the dining room, he did indeed see both of those foods on the table, right along with several bread rolls, chicken, and a bowl of peas. This dinner looked absolutely great! Bobby just couldn't wait to eat it, right along with the others in the room who all took their seats; Luna and Leni sat across from each other, while Lisa sat next to Mrs. Loud, who has just placed Lilly in her high chair.
Upon noticing Bobby. Mrs. Loud gives him a warm, welcoming smile. "Hello Bobby. Glad you can make it to dinner."
"Thank you Mrs. Loud. What have you been up to for tonight?" He hasn't seen her ever since he got here, so she must've been very busy with something.
"Oh nothing. Just been doing some woodworking. I took notice that we should have a picnic table in the backyard for barbecues, so why not make one for all of us."
"That's so cool Mrs. Loud. I bet that picnic table is going to be as great as the novel your currently writing."
Upon mentioning her novel that she's been working on for a year. Mrs. Loud's eyes lit up like a Christmas star; for it's always great when someone talks about the novel that she really hopes will one day become a best seller and launch her writing career. "Well Bobby. When I finish my novel, your going to be one of the first people to receive one of the first copies."
"I look forward to reading it Mrs. Loud." He replied as he took a seat next to Lori, which he quickly took notice of the thumbs up she gave him near her legs.
That was one parent down, now it was time for Mr. Loud, who has just came into the room, singing a made up song to himself until finally sitting himself down at the end of the table, where he then picks up a glass and tapped his fork against it to gain everyone's attention.
"Alright fam. Seeing how we have a special guest with us tonight. Let's put up our best table manners for him, shall we."
"Sure dad." Leni happily stated, while Luna slowly rolls her eyes, while also letting out a low mumble. "Whatever"
Picking up on his daughter's attitude, Lynn sharply turned to face her with one quirked eyebrow. "What was that Luna?"
Slightly moving a pea with the tip of her fork, Luna looked back to her father with disinterest. "Nothing dad."
Lynn would've said something else to his daughter, but the timely interception from Bobby stopped him. "Hey Mr. Loud. Before I forget; I got you a little something."
"Oh. You didn't have to get me anything Bobby. It's very thoughtful though."
"Not even this cowbell?" Bobby rhetorically asked with a slick smile as he held up the instrument.
Releasing a surprised gasp. Lynn absolutely couldn't believe his eyes for that was the newest model with the smoothest sound and a very shiny surface where you can see your own reflection off it. Reaching for it like a little kid in the candy store, Bobby eagerly tossed the bell to his awaiting hands.
Now that he was holding this heavenly instrument in his very own hands. The waterworks immediately began to come out for this was just the most thoughtful gift he has ever received from someone. "I love it so much!"
With the heavy tears streaming down his face like a waterfall. Mr. Loud hugs the bell against his chest and openly sobbed with a huge, wide smile. On the sidelines, Lori gives Bobby a wink before whispering into his ear. "I told you he gets emotional."
"I can't wait to play this baby." In fact; he should be playing it right now.
"Let's wait till after dinner. Okay hunny." Rita however remarked, much to her husband's dismay as he now sulked his head down like a child.
Overall; Bobby's mission on impressing Lori's parents is a huge success. Now all he needed to do is enjoy this nice meal, then bond with them further by first talking more about Mrs. Loud's upcoming novel before then listening to a sweet jam session courtesy of Mr. Loud's new cowbell. It's a solid plan, plus bonus; he is very interested on both of those upcoming topics.
The family along with Bobby at last began to eat their dinner; utensils clicked and clang, glasses were lifted up, and the slight noise of chewing are all the activity at this table. To Bobby; the chicken is absolutely delicious, right along with the mash potatoes and corn. Why in his overall opinion, Mr. Loud should really open up his very own restaurant. It would be a smash hit if he ever did so.
But while the dinner is great, the only thing that slightly bothered him was Leni looking at him with a curious stare. What was she looking at? Did he spill some food on his shirt?
Fortunately; he wasn't the only one who noticed Leni's curious gaze.
"Um Leni. Why are you staring at Bobby?" Lori asked with a little a bit of jealousy in her tone.
"Sorry. I was just looking at that bandage on Bobby's cheek." Leni innocently replied. However like a domino effect, everyone else now turned to look at it, ultimately bringing him into the spotlight.
"Oh yeah. I was meaning to ask you what happened to your cheek?" Lori remarked.
"It's just from a little incident from my new job." Bobby honestly replied without any details for how can anyone explained to someone that they got this injury from a possible ghost girl in a dream.
"Aw! Poor Boo, Boo Bear!" Lori cried while placing a gentle hand on his other cheek.
"Geez. What kind of job do you have that can leave you with such a nasty injury underneath that bandage?" Luna now asked.
Oh right. He was supposed to tell them about his job sometime tonight. Silly him. How can he forget? "It's a security job actually."
"Oh yes. Lori mentioned that yesterday. Tell us Bobby. Where are you working at as a security guard?" Mrs. Loud kindly asked.
"It's at that old pizza place; Freddy Fazbear's Pizza."
As soon as he uttered those words, the whole room went deathly silent, everyone has a look in their eyes as if they are experiencing a deep trauma from their past. Mrs. Loud dropped her fork which clattered onto the plate like a weight, Luna's and Leni's mouth dropped, Lynn's new cowbell splattered into the mash potatoes, Lisa fell off the chair, and Lori began to uncontrollably shake with her right eye twitching.
Bobby didn't know what was going on? But it's very clear he said the wrong thing for the air around him suddenly got as cold as standing in the middle of Antarctica. The tension is also high enough to get Lilly to look around in sympathy as even she can tell that Bobby just made a huge mistake, especially when her mommy started to tear up and struggled to say something. "Wha- what did you say?"
Although hesitant, Bobby answered anyway as not to be rude. "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The place with the fun animatronic band, but been shut down for about two years because several poor children went missing there."
"That's what I thought you said." With her mascara flowing down her face as it mixed in with her tears, her mouth whimpered with the threat of open crying.
"Excuse me." Getting up from her chair, Mrs. Loud with her hands on her face, rushed out of the dining room and disappeared into the kitchen.
Holding in his own heavy sobs. Lynn went off to join his wife in the kitchen without even muttering a single word to anyone. As for Lori's sisters; Leni looked like she was about to have a full on panic attack, Lisa looked towards the wall with a empty expression, Lilly was about to cry, and Luna straight up looked like that she wanted to kick his ass well into next year.
"What's wrong?"
Slamming her fist against the table, Bobby jumped back against his seat in full expectation of getting tackled at this very moment.
"What's wrong? Bloody what's wrong he says!" Luna growled. "How can you work at that place! After what it did to our family!"
"Wait, what?"
"For two long years! We mourned for them in the slightest hopes that they would one day come back to us! Pop's dream career gets shattered like an egg! Mom had a mental breakdown that caused her to stay in her room for the first few months! Lilly will never get to know her other older sisters and brother! It turned me into a rage inducing creep that made me hold back on my feelings for the only person I had deep affections for, in order just to protect her from a bad relationship! Now You!" Shaking her finger, Luna's face turned deep red from the ever growing rage inside of her as she struggled to continue on. "You are stomping all over our grief by having the audacity on working there! You might as well be dancing on top of their graves!"
Slamming her fist against the table again, some of the glasses tipped over, spilling their liquids on the table cloth, the plates shook, and Lilly; frighten by her angry sister began to cry loudly, which didn't go well with Lori.
"Luna! Your scaring Lilly! Calm down!"
"Don't tell me to calm down! Your idiot boyfriend started it by disrespecting us!" She snapped back with venom.
Not liking having her boyfriend being insulted like that. Lori gets up from her seat, places her hands on her hips, then gave a cold, hard stare right back at her sister.
Although hiding the intimidation of her older sister's glare with her very own glare. Luna ultimately backed down by getting up from her seat and stomped out of the room, of course not before giving Bobby one last hateful glare and a rather rude finger gesture.
With Luna gone, some peace came back to the table, but now Lori must maintain the remaining order here before having a small chat with her boyfriend. Glancing over to Leni, she sprung into action by handing her the emergency airbag that she always kept in her pocket.
"Here Leni. Breathe in and out slowly."
Doing what her sister said, Leni breathed in and out at a steady pace, slowly calming herself down to a casual level. Upon reaching it, she removes the bag from her mouth and sighed heavily to the point of almost leaning herself down to the table.
"You feeling better?" Lori gently asked.
Leni slowly nods.
"Do you mind taking Lilly into the living room to calm her down?"
"Sure Lori." Leni replied with a small smile. Getting up from her seat, she picks up Lilly from her highchair and walked out of the room, while gently sussing her and patting her back.
With them both gone; all that was left is Lisa. Turning to face her, Lisa's seat is already empty with only a note on the top that said; "Gone up to my sleeping chambers for recuperations of my emotions. Please put the rest of my dinner in the fridge."
Well. That was that. Finally turning back to Bobby, he couldn't in the life of him understand on what had just happened. Other than the fact he massively screwed up and was now most likely on several of Lori's family members list of people they don't like, especially with Luna. "Oh gosh babe! I'm terribly sorry! I didn't mean to!"
Firmly grabbing his hand, Bobby instantly shut his yap for the overall look he got was very much like the one his mom gives him whenever he was in deep trouble.
"Come with me." Was all she said before pulling him away from the table, dragged him up the stairs where upon reaching the second floor, Lori reached up and pulled down the ladder for the attic, then pulled Bobby up into it.
The attic is dark at first with only the faint outlines of shapes and shadows. Switching on the light however; it turned out to be nothing more but boxes, old furniture, and a yellow coat hanging out on a old coat rack. It's a nice attic, but Bobby couldn't appreciate it due to shrinking underneath Lori's harsh glare.
She doesn't say anything, just continues to look at him with crossed arms and a tapping foot. When she finally did speak, it scared Bobby as it's clear that she was holding in all of her rage just in order to talk with him calmly. "Bobby. Why didn't you tell me that your security job was at that DAM PLACE!"
Shaking in terror, Bobby didn't know what to say, but the truth. "I, I wanted to tell you Lori, b-but you told me to save it for your family."
He would be about the size of an atom by now under Lori's cold gaze. She looked like that she was about to explode at that very second, but only just managed to grab her head with her index fingers and massaged it to keep herself calm. "I did say that. Why did I say it. God; this is literally a disaster."
Turning away from him, Lori proceeds to take this moment to pace around the attic, muttering to herself which Bobby couldn't make out, but wisely kept it quiet for his own sake. Stopping at last, Lori turns back to him with great dejection.
"Look. You need to understand something most important to us. To me. That place." Pausing for a second, Lori looked beyond Bobby to the other side of the attic with such contempt. "That place once belonged to our family."
"Really? I never knew." Bobby said in surprise.
"That's because we did everything in our power to forget about that dam place!"
"Is it because of the Missing Children's Incident!" Bobby asked for that would certainly do it.
"Yes, but it's worse for us because it was my siblings that went missing." The sudden reveal is shocking for out of all the places in town. Bobby just had to choose to work at the exact same place his girlfriend's siblings got taken away, he slightly wonders if those kids that he's seen in his dreams were them.
Lori in the meantime, took his silence to continue on. "My dad always dreamed of being a head chef at a restaurant ever since he was a kid. At first; he thought up of various ideas from renovating an old fish restaurant to possibly making a fast food chain, but then one day. After watching us play football in the backyard and taking notice of the lack of family friendly restaurants in Royal Woods. He came up with the idea of creating a pizza theme restaurant, where people with families can come and have a good time."
Pausing briefly from these memories of her dad announcing of starting up his very own business to the opening of his very own restaurant, Lori allowed a small smile to get through as those were simpler times. "Before Freddy's; he opened up a small diner called Fredbear's. It was a simple place, had games for kids to play and entertainment for the adults. The main attraction was FredBear and SpringBonnie; they were once two rubber suits my dad and his business partner used to wear before converting them into full fledge animatronics."
Holding in a laugh, Lori can just remember the day she worn that rubber bear costume to cover for her dad as he worked in the kitchen. The suit was hot, a bit goofy, not to mention a bit hard to take off, but it was nice to bring smiles to the children; just as long no one knew that she was in it that is.
"Fredbear's turned out to be a great success. Every day people would come in to see the dancing yellow bear and rabbit, it eventually got so successful that dad was soon able to open up Freddy's. Sure; it required him to move his chef career right on over to there and hire a replacement for Fredbear's, but it was still great and it literally seemed like that both Freddy's and Fredbear's would be open forever."
Frowning to herself, Lori can now only close her eyes for how silly that thought was. "Then, then. That's when things started to go bad for us. About a couple months before my siblings fateful disappearance. Fredbear's shut down because in a cruel twist of irony, one of my siblings got taken over there as well."
"Wait really? How can that be?" Bobby worriedly asked.
"Yes. Although unlike on what happened at Freddy's, we found her at the back alley of the diner with various stab wounds on her chest, bruises all over her face and the signs of being strangled. We grieved for her like we did now, dad could barely show up to work, we just couldn't believe that someone would do such a horrible thing to one of us. Yet as you know. It was far from over as it really seemed like that someone had a very deep grudge against us because on that day when we went to Freddy's. Well; you know the rest." Lori lamented holding in her tears just in order for her boyfriend not to see her in such a broken state.
"You really think someone had a grudge against you?" Bobby asked in even more worry for who on Earth would have a grudge against the Louds?
"I don't like to think so, but c'mon; is it so much of a coincidence that prior before my siblings got taken away, my sister got killed as well."
"But who would do such a horrible thing?" Seriously! Who would have a big enough beef with the Louds to take away the lives of their loved ones?
"That's the thing. We don't know. Sure we were rowdy, but other than that; we are a normal, everyday family that wouldn't cause someone to come after us." They did have some suspicion on who could've done it and he has been arrested, but with the lack of any evidence against him. He was able to get out and roam free. She doesn't know where he is now, but hopefully it was far away for Lori has this gut feeling that it was indeed him.
Lori then let out a long, heavy sigh. "Sometimes. I still think about them. When I go around the house, I can almost just see them either coming out of their rooms, walking down the hallway, sitting on the couch watching TV, or even out in a fresh mud puddle. Then when I sleep; their voices echo throughout my memories."
"Do you still have photos of them?" It's good to keep the memories of them alive through photos.
"Yes. We occasionally come up here to reminisce of the happier times. In fact." Walking over to a pile of boxes right behind Bobby, she picks up the top one and gently places it down, where she then slowly opens it up to reveal an old family album with a brown, leather cover.
Taking the album out, Lori flips through several pages showing a younger Luna and Luan laughing together with flower all over their faces, six year old Lynn at her first soccer game, the two year old twins sleeping together, and one of her feeding baby Lincoln his first ice cream. All of these photos caused a warm smile to appear on her face for it only seemed like yesterday that these photos were taken.
Lori eventually finds the picture that she was looking for and turned the album around for Bobby to see.
From his widening eyes; the picture showed the family posing right in front of the newly opened Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. He instantly recognizes; Luan, Lynn, Lincoln, Lana, and Lola as the exact same kids who've appeared to him in his dreams. Yet he certainly didn't recognize the one with black hair, pale skin, gothic attire, standing emotionlessly between Lola and Lynn.
"Who's that?" Bobby pointed out with still widen eyes.
"That's Lucy. She's the one who's been murdered at Fredbear's. Ironically; she was all into death, always talking about having ghosts as friends, past lives, wanting to be a vampire. She was literally the spooky type, she actually scared us most of the time by either suddenly appearing right behind or in front of us." Lori fondly explained; all the while Bobby kept on looking at Lucy before going right back to the missing five. It's hard to believe that he actually encountered their ghosts in his dreams.
"So what's the place like now?" That small bit of curiosity ate at her, even with the overall disdain of her dad's old restaurant.
"Everything still there. The tables, arcade games, decorations, children's drawings, even all of the animatronics are still functioning."
"That's surprising. And that injury?" Did Bobby get too close to Foxy's hook, which she honestly didn't know why her dad even allowed such a sharp hook to even swing around on that thing, it could've poked an eye out on some careless kid who got a bit too close.
Pointing down to the picture, it was now Lori's turn to widen her eyes in surprise when his index finger touched Lynn. "She gave me it."
"What?"
"I was asleep and in this dream. The ghosts of your sisters and brother appeared to me, all wearing these accessories. I wanted to be peaceful, so I approached and chased your sister in the red hat, which didn't go so well with her as right when I touched her shoulder, she tackled and slashed me with a hook. The last thing I saw before waking up were these wires sticking out of her mouth, it was so freaky, it's as if she was part machine." He carefully explained with Lori staying completely silent as she took in everything he said.
"I know it sounds unbelievable Lori, but I have honest with all my love to you. That I've seen them."
"Leave" She suddenly spoke.
"Babe?"
Narrowing her eyes, Lori's aurora gets very dark as both of her hands shook. It became very clear Bobby stepped over another line.
"Bobby! You el stupido!"
"GET OUT!" Stomping her foot down, it's what all it took for Bobby to climb down the ladder and run out of the house.
As he ran down the street, Bobby couldn't help but wonder that his big mouth might have just ruined his relationship with the woman he loved with all his heart.
He doesn't know how this night was going to get any worse.