An Afton Story

Chapter Ten

Michael's POV.

I woke up to my alarm, which ment it was a weekday, and we had to go to school. I didn't think I'd be able to get up to go to school, I was tired and wanted to go back to sleep after I turned off my alarm. I looked down at myself and saw that I was still holding Fredbear and still had dad's jacket on.

I stayed laying down for a while until dad walked into the room and stopped in the doorway, I just stared at him, not saying anything, he was the one to say something first, "do you want to stay home from school today?" He slowly walked closer to the bed as he spoke, I just nodded in response to him.

"Alright, Liz said she wanted to stay home too. I do need to go in about an hour, but I shouldn't be gone for too long" dad spoke softly, clearly trying not to wake me up more than I already was, he may have been hoping that I would go back to sleep once he left. "Okay" my voice was a bit raspy because I hadn't talked this morning since now.

Dad walked out of my room and I rolled onto my back, keeping Fredbear in my arms, not wanting to let him go. "Hey Fredbear, did you see the creepy animatronic yesterday at the hospital too?" He noticeable shook his head. "Good to know I'm crazy then" I sat up still holding Fredbear and decided I should at least get some breakfast.

I got up and walked out of my room, Liz was walking out of her room as well, and seemed to notice that I had Fredbear.

"Are you keeping am eye on him for Evan?" I just nodded in response to her question. We both then started walking to the kitchen, but stopped in the opening to it when we heard the phone ring. There was no reason for us to stop, but we couldn't walk forward for some unknown reason.

We heard dad answer the phone and that's when we walked into the kitchen to find food for ourselves. We didn't listen to dad's conversation as we got something to eat. We sat at the table and ate our food as dad talked on the phone for a while. Fredbear sat at the end of the table and stared innto the kitchen, I half mindedly started to listen to dad's conversation he was having over the phone.

"But if he does can you take him? I don't think it's safe for him here anymore...Please, he'll probably need to get away from here after this, it'll probably be worse when Evan wakes up" dad was quiet, probably trying to not get our attention, it was a good guess he was possibly talking about me.

"Okay, we'll see how things go then, if he needs to get away then I'll send him to you" I looked over to the kitchen wondering what he was thinking about after he put the phone up. He walked over to the table and I looked at the table to avoid eye contact.

"Who were you talking to?" I looked at Liz who seemed more curious about who he was talking to than what the conversation was about.

"Just a family member who likes in London" dad said it as if it weren't a big deal.

"London?" I joined the conversation, since dad might be sending one of his sons to them. "What do you mean London?"

"Londong, in the UK, you know this Michael" dad looked at me with a slightly disappointed face.

"I heard your conversation, are you really planing on sending one of us clear out to London?!" I slightly raised my voice, not really thinking about it as I did.

"Don't raise your voice at me Michael." Dad had a stern tone, but I didn't care, I wasn't going to let him send any of us away.

"I'm going to do what I want! I'm not letting you send any of us away to London! This might be hard but it'll be worse if you keep us all apart!" Liz got up and walked out, knowing that this was going to turn into a fight that none of us wanted to deal with, but it was going to happen.

"It's better to send someone away than have everyone here trying to deal with everything! And Evan might not even remember anything about our family so we can send him away without him thinking he was part of this family!" Dad's words hit me hard, I didn't want to belive that Evan wouldn't remember us.

"You don't know that! He could remember everything and your just going to send him away when he needs us the most?! God! You were never there for us when we needed you and your doing this shit again!" I stood up from my chair, ready to leave to my room.

"I was there for you for so long! It wasn't until your mother left that I had to leave you three kids to take care of yourselves everyday!" I was done with this already, and I knew I had to say something to try to get him to shut up.

"It's your fault mom left! She wouldn't have left if it wasn't for you!" I grabbed Fredbear and walked to my room before he could say anything in response.

I put Fredbear on my bed then blocked both my doors with whatever I could so no one could come in. Once my doors were blocked I looked at Fredbear who was just staring at me. I sat on the bed with tears in my eyes, I knew it wasn't right for me to blame dad because it was mom who cheated on dad that promted the divorce, but it wasn't right for him to try to send Evan off to London just because of his animatronics.

"You know. I didn't want to say that to dad. It wasn't his fault mom left, plus she wouldn't have taken care of us anyways. She hated us, but then Liz was born and dad knew she wasn't his. He also tried to help when he found out mom was constantly ignoring me...but that didn't help because now he's never around to try to help with anything, and he leaves me to do everything myself" I knew Fredbear probably wasn't listening, but I knew he could maybe help me with letting me talk about mom for once.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to tell you all of that, you probably don't care anyways. And I guess your gonna be stuck with me for a while, but if Evan is sent to London then your going to go with him. I hope dad doesn't send him away, the house isn't the same without him here." I looked at Fredbear, he seemed to be listening as he stared at me. He seemed to understand my emotional breakdown was driven by Evan not being here.