(Canceled) Before I Shatter (FNAF Highschool) (Book 1 of 3)

Chapter 19

===Foxy's POV===
Bliss. There's not another word for it. Just. Bliss. For the first time in a long time I've actually been able to sleep soundly. No nightmares. No laying awake restlessly tired. Just the loving embrace of rest. But there is something else. A presence that wraps itself around my body in a warm hug. I open my surprising light eyes and stare at Mangle's frizzled platinum colored hair. She stirs a little before opening her bright golden eyes. The panic I expected to see doesn't appear, instead she smiles at me with a ray of sunlight. My heart skips a beat, and I smile back. One that's genuine and feels unfamiliar to me.

"You're smiling." She speaks first in a cute low voice, catching me by surprise. "You never smile."

"Why wouldn't I smile? At the only person that makes me happy." A giggle escapes her and I kiss her forehead gently. Her face heats up to a blush as she speaks again.

"Did you have any nightmares?"

"No. For the second time in years I haven't."

"The second time?"

"Have you already forgotten about our first night." Instantly her whole face goes red with embarrassment as she begins to stammer. I chuckle lightly and shut her up with a gentle kiss which she melts into right away. That's when I notice that neither of us are dressed. This time it's my turn for my face to heat up into a hue of red. I had totally forgotten about what happened last night.

"What? What's wrong? You stopped smiling."

"We uh..." I stop myself and point down towards both our bodies, indicating that we're still naked. She doesn't seem bothered by the fact, merely shrugging it off.

"I don't think it matters now." She says smiling again and pushing herself closer to me, wrapping her arms tighter around me. It takes me by shock for a second but I just let it all happen and put my head back down on my pillow. Taking a deep breath and exhaling with satisfaction as I close my eyes. But just I close my eyes there a loud bang at my door which swings open and my mother rushes in. She starts yelling something at me but stops in shock at Mangle and me naked in the same bed. There's only one thing that runs through my mind. Only one word that I speak at the top of my lungs...

"SHIT!"

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"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU YOU'RE ONLY 17!" I sit silently clothed as mother yells at me.
Her tone is so angry, and she flails her arms about as she paces in front of me.
"I CAN'T BELIVE THIS! WHAT WOULD YOUR-" She cuts herself off before she can finish her sentence but I already know what she was going to say.

"What would my father think? Well.. you know what... IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HE THINKS, BECAUSE HE'S DEAD!" I retaliate with poison and blood dripping from my words. A pain seers through my heart as I speak my words, saying out loud that my father is dead.

"Even so, that's doesn't excuse you from what you did. God! What am I going to tell her parents?" My anger turns outward at the thought of Mangle's father and his accusations. And I raise my voice again.

"You're not going to tell her parents!"

"And why wouldn't I?"

"I had to stop her father from beating her last night! Imagine the hell you would put her through!" She stops. A look of remorse lurks behind her hard glaring eyes.

"Why was he trying to hurt her?"

"Her father knows about... that day... he called me a murderer." My eyes turn downwards towards the floor. The glaze returns to my eyes as I remember again. The blood. The smell of smoke from the barrel. The aching in my wrists from the kick. The lifelessness in the mans eyes as they rolled into the back of his head.