A Toy Friend's History (A Poppy Playtime Story)

Trust Fall (28)

Narrator

The day after finally being allowed to go outside at nighttime, you ambled outside of another one of the toy rooms to overhear a conversation in the hallway.

"We can't keep her here forever Pops! She has got a job! It'll be obvious and too hard to cover up!" it sounded like Huggy's voice?

"I'm not even that close with her, but we should start to trust her since she's going to be staying here for a while," Bunzo said.

"Ugh! That's exactly what she wants!" Poppy replied, stressed.

"That's my whole point! Listen- you're so wrapped up inside of the factory's history that you won't even trust anyone!" Huggy yelled.

"Oh me?! I'm the one who's 'wrapped up'?! What about you guys?! You guys are trusting her way too easily!"

"Of course we are! She's not dead yet, which must mean something!" Bunzo stated.

"We can kill her whenever! We can traumatise her whenever!" Poppy yelled.

"And now what's the point in that?! The history is gone!" Huggy said.

"No! We were made into this! It'll never change all because of him!"

"But you're the one that died! It's his fault, yes! But we shouldn't take it out on her now!" Bunzo said.

"I- Whatever! We'll think of something!" Poppy yelped.

"No Poppy! We have to think of something now!" Bunzo said.

You kept listening in closely, while opening the door slightly. You didn't want them to notice you eavesdropping just yet.

"So what do we do?" Poppy calmed down and asked the two of them.

"Maybe still let her go to work. We'll ask Mommy for an excuse since she's good at that stuff," Huggy said.

"Yeah!" Bunzo agreed. "How about we keep a watch on her to know where she is?"

"Uh- sure.." Huggy replied with a hint of uncertainty and uncomfortableness in his voice. He wasn't so fond of the idea especially when he knows you're going to be tracked all day long.

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Reader's POV

I decided not to say anything and wait for Huggy, Bunzo and Poppy to leave before stepping out. I didn't have much of an opinion on the matter. It didn't matter to me. I guess I understood all views? Poppy dosen't want me to leave since she has trust issues with the factory's history being exposed and Huggy as well as Bunzo wants me to be free in order for them to gain my trust. It was quite a complicated scenario.

I was sat in the Playtime Cafeteria on one of the blue, red and yellow painted benches.

I was on my phone and messaging Troy now my phone was charged. He seemed to understand about the factory. I didn't tell him about the nighttime rule, but he didn't seem to ask about it. I knew he knew boundaries, but I really expected him to question the idea a lot more than he did.

While texting Troy, I noticed Boogie-Bot walking into the room.

"Hey BB! Is there a meeting?" I asked him while he sat opposite of me on the bench.

"Nope! But hey! I guess you got used to the nickname already!" Boogie-Bot replied with a happy face on his screen.

"Yup! Uh.. where's PJ?"

"Hmm! Pugs? I haven't seen him today actually."

"Oh.. uh-" I hesitated. I had to let go of what I heard earlier, but I was desperate to talk to someone about it. "Can you keep a secret?"

"Of course! What's the matter?"

"I eavesdropped on something today.." I sighed.

"Oh no. Well as much as this may be known as a sin or something, I love gossip! Tell me all of it!" Boogie-Bot replied. "I won't tell anyone I pinky promise!"

I sighed again, "Alright.. here it goes- today.. I basically overheard a conversation between Huggy, Bunzo and Poppy."

Boogie-Bot was practically jumping up and down in his seat. Who knew he would love to gossip?

"And.. well- it was about me and-"

Boogie-Bot interrupted, "Did Poppy confess?!"

"Uhm no?" I gave him a weird look, as he just sat back down and continued to listen. "Well.. you know how they can't keep me here forever since I work and as well as my boss and co-worker in the arcade are my best friends-"

"Are you allowed to leave?!" Boogie-Bot interrupted. "Sorry oops!"

"It's okay," I giggled. "So.. they agreed upon something like asking Mommy for an excuse before I go back to work and also they sort of agreed on giving me a watch, which is actually a tracker?" I finished off my gossip with Boogie-Bot giving a shocked and exaggerated expression.

"Oh my god! This is so top gossip!"

"It's really not.." I chuckled.

"It is! Wow! I won't be surprise when a meeting is called out! Wait- so do you maybe want to tell PJ?" Boogie-Bot asked.

"Sure! He's like a older brother.. so that's why I tell him everything! Is that weird?"

"No! It's normal! Now c'mon let's find him!"

Boogie-Bot rushed off his seat and dragged me with his tiny, robotic arm to follow him onwards.

We walked outside of the Playtime Cafeteria and walked down multiple hallways and rooms (even vents) until we finally searched the Statues area in the Train Station Room, where he normally was.

We walked down stairs after pulling open the gate from the side without a GrabPack and then trying to find PJ.

Along our search, someone was already there with PJ. It was.. Daddy Long Legs?! I haven't seen him in forever.

"PJ!" Boogie-Bot yelled in his normal robotic or static tone, while racing me towards PJ and Daddy Long Legs.

"Hi!" PJ smiled at us with his tongue sticking  out, while Daddy Long Legs waved at us shortly.

Boogie-Bot quickly discussed the drama leaving Daddy and PJ with the same reaction like him.

"Wow!" PJ said. "That's great you overheard their plans. I bet you'd feel uncomfortable if you had a tracker on you without knowing."