Trapped

Chapter 8

The song stopped, their eyes going black, I held my breath.
Maybe they were powering off for the night?
I gripped onto Jackson's hand tighter.

They began to move forward at a slow pace. They passed Toby as if they didn't see him.
So the theory about the costume was true then. Good a least I knew now before I died that my love would be safe.
"Dum-duh-dum-dum.." Freddy said as he stepped closer and closer to me and Jackson. Jackson turned his head to me, a sad smile on his face.
"I'm glad to have been there for you as your friend this whole time. Even if you didn't see how much I loved you. It doesn't even matter anymore. I'm so thank that you're my best friend Jane."
Tears filled my eyes as I looked over at Jackson, my heart breaking in my chest. "Don't say goodbye..." I whispered. "There's no point in saying goodbye.."
Toby turned on his heel, he ripped off the mascot head. His face dead serious, I stared at him in shock. He wasn't about to do what I think he was, was he?
He didn't meet my eyes, only stared at the back of the animatronics.
"LEAVE THEM ALONE!" He screamed at them. My free hand flew to my mouth.  Oh god Toby what are you doing?
All their heads turned back to look at him, if they could have expressions I would assume it would be one of anger for the deception.
"TOBY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I gasped outloud this time. Jackson's hand tightened on mine he pulled me against him, wrapping his arms tight around me. "Jane, no!"

"I love you...never forget about me Jane... Never.."
The animatronics weren't as slow with their movements towards Toby as they were to us. They surrounded Toby within seconds. 
"NO-" Jackson covered my mouth to quiet me. "It's 5:59am Jane maybe he can surv-"
Jackson was cut off by the same ear-shattering scream I heard earlier when Xavier died.
I cried against Jackson's hand as a sickening crunch filled the air. I struggled harder against Jackson crying behind his hand. A chime ran through the building indicating it was now 6am.
No!
The Animatronics froze and leaned foward powering down, Jackson let me go and I fell to the floor wailing like an small child. "Toby!" I screeched, reaching my hand out towards the animatronics. "Toby!"
Tears streamed down my face as I stared at the blood that began pooling onto the tacky arcade carpet.
Jackson's arms wrapped around me, pulling me against his chest. I cried into his shirt collar holding onto him like my life depended on it.

Jackson stilled in my grasp. "Wait, Jane. Shh for a moment." I forced myself quiet to listen, the pace was quicker than the animatronics, it was lighter too; definitely human.

A voice began to burst out quiet sighs of relief followed by him talking to himself.
"Thank God, I get to go home and sleep and not worry about these animatronics trying to kill me for a whole weekend..." His foot steps grew closer and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me and Jackson.
He had to be about 25 years old, but he looked exhausted from an all night shift and it seemed to age him slightly.
"What..." He looked at the animatronics, then to the pool of blood on the floor, his face whiting with realization on what we went through. "How long were you kids here?" he whispered in disbelief.
"Since 10 o'clock last night..." Jackson replied, his facial expression was weary of the man. He was probably thinking the same thing as I was. Why didn't this man come and help us?
The man seemed slightly shocked, there was slight fear in his eyes. Fear for losing his job maybe? "Where were you??" He asked suddenly. " I didn't see you guys on the cameras.."
I gave jackson a wide eyed expression, we saw no cameras in any of the rooms we had been in.
I cleared my throat and looked up unsure at him. "The basement...this room, and two of the private party rooms.."
The man sighed and shook his head. "Those are blind spots for me, there's no cameras in those areas. They haven't placed them up yet. Stated they weren't important and I didn't need them to 'Watch the Animatronics' as my boss said."
Jackson's grip tightened on me, he was terrified and unsure of this man as I was. "So? You're the night guard then...?"
He let out another sigh clearly wanting to go home, but now having to deal with two teenagers. "Yes, Sadly... I'm Mike Schmidt. I'm kind of glad you guys are here in a morbid sense. Nobody believes me about these things." He points to the animatronics. "I think the place shouldn't re-open. Too much death and pain in this building."
I hiccup and tried to not begin crying again. Toby...Xavier...Mikey...All of them gone.
"I need to contact the police, how many of you kids were in here." He looked over at Toby's body and shuddered, his face filled with sympathy. "There was 5 of us." Jackson mumbled, "how do we know you weren't controlling the animatronics from your office and tried to kill us?" He spit the words with venom.
I looked over at Jackson, I was glad I still had him.
Mike put up his hands, "Woah, no. Trust me."
Standing up slowly I looked up at Mike.  "Can you please let us go home."
"I'll be calling the police, you can leave the building but don't go too far."

I slid my phone out of my pocket, My signal was back. I looked at Jackson with a confused expression.
His brows wrinkled to try and make sense of it.
Mike pulled out his chain and searched for the key to unlock the door. "This place should honestly have burned to the ground," He muttered under his breath as he found the right key and unlocked the door for Jackson and I.
Jackson grabbed his backpack and slid it on then bent to pick me up and carry me to his car.
I held on to my bag strap as I looked back at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
To anyone else it would seem like an innocent pizza place, looking no different from any other one.
It seemed innocent, mundane, typical. Makes any normal person question why it was even shut down in the first place.
I know now the secret of Freddy Fazbear's.