°An Old Friend° Republish

Chapter 1

For over 25 years, being an artist has always been Annabelle's possession. Ever since she was 5 years old, she's never given up the passion for doing so. Since she has such inspiration, there were bundles of papers on her work desk, piled with drawings from animals to landscapes.

The girl walked over at her table, and began attracting some random art from her imagination. But there was one character that she admired when she was a kid. His name was Bendy, Bendy the dancing demon. With her on the mind of drawing and more space on the paper, she then started drawing.

Minutes later, she looked at the drawing she finished. With a visible smile she says happily "Hello there bendy." Besides her hands aching, she wanted to take a break. She slowly got up from the table and reported downstairs to get something to get a drink.

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Annabelle made a return upstairs then halted at her door frame. Distracted, there was a large splat of ink on her desk, along with papers she drew before being scattered around. She sighed then took off downstairs to her laundry room then returned back upstairs with some cleaning supplies.

After countless hours of cleaning and pure exhaustion later, she sighed and plopped on her bed completely worn out. "Time for bed" She muttered in the sheets and soon went to sleep.

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She woke up then sat up at the side of her bed, getting ready to leave her bed. For a second, she felt something wet. Quickly, she stepped out of bed looking down and saw her room covering her floor with ink. Despite having an alarmed yet frustrated expression, she strode downstairs.

There was a long ink trail. She kept her eyes on it, which led to the basement. But from the looks of it, the door was sealed shut. She managed to unlock the door and from the looks of it, was half-filled with ink. She looked around and whispered, "How did this happen?" Annabelle asked to herself wanting to scream. She continued strolling in making something immediately rise up from it. It's oozing black hand extended out aimlessly towards her, making Anna flee without thinking, slamming the door behind her.

"What the hell was that thing!" Annabelle asked as she moved upstairs then hid under her bed, staying silent. Carefully, she listened to a low groan and felt the house give of a slight shake. Annabelle yelped softly and the bed got held up by the ink creature. She backed up against the wall and covered her eyes from gazing at it, rasing her hands in defense. "Please! Don't hurt me!" She screamed out, shaking uncontrollably.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you like that, I just wanted to see where you were going" The creature said. The girl quickly looked at the creature being a lot smaller. Wasn't it just taller a minute before?

Thoughts zoomed through her head, until she glanced at him once more. It can't be. "Bendy?..." She slowly approached him. "In the flesh!" He responded in his cheerful tone.

Annabelle grinned and hugged him tightly. "Aw, you're even more adorable in person!" She squeaked, twirling him around. "Getting...dizzy" He said. Anna blushed and stopped quickly putting him down. "Sorry, I couldn't help it" she chuckled nervously. "It's okay, doll" Bendy answers with a reassuring dizzy smile.

"Doll? As in...doll-face?" She asked, her face blushed more. He snickered again. "Yeah! What's your real name again?"

"Annabelle Johnson, very nice to meet you" She greeted with a soft amile. Bendy looked at her like a curious child. That name sounded so familiar to him. "Anna..bella?" Bendy asked softly, his smiling widening more. Annabelle smiled and nodded. "It's been so long since I've seen you, how've you been?" He asked holding onto her quickly.

"Hanging in there" Annabelle answered "How has my favorite little buddy doing?" She asked him happily.

"Isolated, corrupted, betrayed, and Abandoned" He grumbled with the same smile as ink melting down his face, which quickly returned back to his happy go lucky self. "But all-around, good now that you're here!"

Annabelle stood there with a straight face, feeling scared. "Oh, okay" She laughed nervously. "So how is Joey, Henry, and the others?"

Bendy hummed for a moment looking off to the side. "I don't know, I haven't seen them since they retired" 

"Oh, well. Good to see you again. It's nice to see your cute little face" Annabelle teased him as she hugged him. "Same to you Annabella~" Bendy played with a wink. Annabelle's face quickly flashed with red and yelped instantly glancing at bendy "Bendy!" 

"Kidding, kidding!" He chuckled which then had him having a soft punch to the shoulder. "I said I was kidding!"