The Monsters Next Door (Discontinued)

Chapter 8

"Rachel. Rachel, wake up."

She felt her mother shake her.
Rachel groaned, "Don't wake me up, it's still only nine o'clock."

" It's seven in the morning. Get up."
The adult shook her again.
Rachel didn't budge.

" Alright, you asked for it." She smiled, then started tickling her shoulder.

"Mom, stop!" Rachel tried to prevent her mother from getting to her neck.

"Then, get up. You don't want to your breakfast to get cold." Her parent said then left the room. Rachel stood up and stretched, then went downstairs.

* Time skip*

Rachel like the tart flavors as she took another bite out of her strawberry pop tart. She swallowed her mouthful as her mother came over with coffee. Rachel's stepfather already left for work, so it was just Rachel and her mother.

"So Rachel..." Her mother said suddenly.

"Yes?" Rachel said after swallowing her next bite.

" I've been thinking last night, and since you are afraid of Freddy and the others, how about if we can face that fear." The adult said.
Rachel knew where she was going with this. They're going back to the pizzeria.

" Mom, I don't want to go over the fear." She said.

"Why not? Do you want to be afraid of them?"

"No." She said to her mother.
Rachel didn't want anything to do with that place, though she didn't want to be laughed at in school.
One of Mary's friends might overhear and tell the whole school.
But good thing it's the end of the year, so she won't see that bully for a long time.

Come on.... I thought you wanted to be afraid of everything... Even them... The voice said.

Leave me alone!! She thought to the voice.

May I warn you again, Rachel..... The worst is yet to come... Even today, you could have your last breath.... It laughed.

Wait... You were the one who was breathing on me last night? She realized.

The voice just laughed a harsh ghostly laugh, then disappeared.

It was silent again. The only thing they could hear was the ceiling vent by the stove. The adult rubbed her daughter's back.

"Hey, it's OK. I know it's hard to face your fears but we'll get through this."
She said.
Rachel felt like she was going to cry. Tears threatening to fall.
To her, it was hard to make a change but she knew it was for the best. After all, her mother was trying to help her.

"You want to go?" The adult asked.
Rachel nodded.
She then got out of her seat and went to her bedroom. Rachel looked in the mirror on the other side if the room.

Why did I sleep in my dress? She thought.
She went to the dresser. She picked out a blue horse T-shirt and black pants. Rachel took off her dress and put on the clothes. She noticed something on her arms, goosebumps. She knew why she had them. The voice... Was she really going to meet her end? Now she had two wishes, to never see Freddy's again and to never hear the monster inside her head.

*Time skip*

Rachel braced herself for the worst when she entered the front doors once again. A wave of regret hit her.

I should never have agreed to come here, Rachel thought. She started having flashes in her mind. Freddy sinking his teeth into her chest, Bonnie throwing her to the wall, Chica choking her, and Foxy cutting open her stomach. The images made her want to cry.
Rachel shook the terrifying thoughts out of her head. Today can't be that bad... Can it?
They went in the large dining room. The first thing Rachel saw were kids running around like yesterday. She tried her best not to look at the animatronics on stage as she sat down at a table.
Parents were leaning against the far wall talking to each other. Then, Rachel saw Jake with another man in a security uniform. It was Shaun. The man that moved to the nightshift.