Sleepless Agony

Chapter 7: Expectations Vs. Reality

Ennard woke up in Foxy's dusty old bed, his eyes squinting in the light. He got up and made his way into the bathroom. He looked at his cracked, smudged reflection and tried to turn on the tap. A loud squeak came with each attempt to turn the faucet. Slowly, water made its way through the rusty pipes. It had a brown tint to it as it collected in the sink. "...ew. I'm not even gonna attempt to shower in here."

Ennard climbed the stairs and tried to find his way to someone's room. He heard someone inside a big box. He knocked on top of the box and waited. Puppet popped up and saw Ennard standing outside. "Hey, Ennard! I didn't know you were here!" Puppet beamed, stepping out of the box, "What's up?"

"I was actually wondering if you had a shower I could use. I'm staying in Foxy's room right now, and his water isn't...well, clean," Ennard let out a slight laugh.

"Sure, I only have one for patients and one for chemical and radiation emergencies. But since they are under repair from...incidents...I guess you can use my personal shower if you want," Puppet insisted.

Ennard, kinda worried, agreed and made his way down the box. He walked into Puppet's lab and saw all his experiments, ranging from test subjects to chemical variations. "Wow, you sure love science!" Ennard explained.

"Well, yeah. It would be weird if I was a scientist if I didn't love science," Puppet chuckled, "Well, here's my living space. My bathroom is on the left." Puppet left Ennard on his own to go shower.

Ennard stepped into the shower and turned it on the hottest setting. "Okay, what's my gameplan? I should confront Freddy on the notebook, but who knows what he will do if he found out I stole from him. He would be furious! Maybe I should save that for last then. What I could do is find out who this Josaphen person is. He's probably someone like Freddy. He might even be older than me. If he was there when Foxy and Lolbit got together, he must be pretty old." Soon, the water got to it's hottest setting. Ennard, being too lost in thought, didn't notice the temperature.

"Who could I ask, Puppet seems likely to tell me. Maybe he could even show me where this Josaphen lives. If I need to, I might have to spill some blood." Ennard turned off the water and grabbed a towel. He dried off and got ready to talk to Puppet about Josaphen. He walked out of the bathroom and searched for Puppet. He saw him on his couch, looking at the television. Ennard walked up and sat down next to him. "Hey, Puppet, I have a question."

Puppet turned down the volume a little, "I have an answer, what is it?"

"Do you know anyone by the name Josaphen? I think he's pretty strong, tall, older than me, knows Freddy, does that ring a bell?" Ennard listed his description to Puppet. Puppet gave a quizzical look.

"Um, I think you mean my 11-year old who does dance and can barely lift a dead body? Unless your 10 or under, that's the only Josaphen Freddy knows. Although Josaphen is pretty tall for his age, so you got that part right, too."

Ennard looked at Puppet dumbfounded. Josaphen is a child? This just changed my plan a lot, Ennard thought as he snapped back into reality. "Really? Where is he then? I never actually got to see him before!" Ennard faked being interested.

"Well, if he isn't in here, then he's hanging out with his mom, Ballora. She across the hall from me, so it shouldn't be so hard to find them," Puppet sat up and started to get off the couch, "I'm going to go do some experiments. I would invite you, but you have to take a concoction of vaccines so you don't die in my workspace."

Ennard watched as Puppet left the room and went into the lab. Ennard walked out of Puppet's box and looked across the hall to see Ballora's place. He walked down the hall and knocked on the door. A faint "Come in!" shortly followed. Ennard stepped in to see Ballora and Josaphen dancing on the stage. "Hey, Ennard! It's been so long since I've seen you!"

Ballora lept offstage in front of Ennard. "Hey, Ballora, I've been good. I never knew you had a little bundle of joy! I was just talking to Puppet, and he told me you had a child named Josaphen." Josaphen turned around to see Ennard. His long blue hair covering one of his eyes with a halo floating above his head. He had a blue and black sweater with wings sticking out. He had black jeans with blue shoes with red laces that matched the crying marks on his cheeks. "I was wondering if I could talk to him, I have a question or two about Freddy-"

Ballora cut him off, "Say no more, I don't want to know anything about what weird things he and Freddy does. Last time I did and joined then, and I was finding chicken bones and bullet shells in my hair and grease in my clothes." Ballora walked past Ennard out the door and headed towards the kitchen.

Ennard turned to see Josaphen on the stage. "Hey, Josaphen, was it? Can I ask you a couple of questions?"

Josaphen jumped off the stage. "I dunno. I don't really have anything better to do, so sure!"

Ennard looked at Josaphen's eye. "What do you know about Mangle?"
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Hey everyone! How are you guys? Hope y'all are good. I also hope you're liking this book, we're officially past halfway into it! Anyways, I'll see you guys Thursday, buh bye!