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"Oh my God." I said. "Did this really just happen?"
"Yeah. It did."
"So, it's just us."
"Just us."
We were walking out of the office after Yugi died.
"At least this hell is almost over." I said. "Just one more night."
"And just one more victim."
"Right." I said, looking down at the ground. "That."
"I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Yeah. See you."
~
When I got back home, I laid in bed and dreaded tomorrow night. One of us was going to die then. It was inevitable. And who knows what's going to happen to the survivor? I'm sure that Bree isn't going to give them a prize or anything. She's probably got something up her sleeve.
"I wonder what it's like to be psycho?" I muttered to myself. "That sounds insane but I don't really care. I really want to know what goes through her mind."
I then thought about the fight that I had yesterday. It was stupid and I don't even know why it happened in the first place.
~
"Hey."
"Hi."
"I've been dreading this."
"Same."
"Listen, I'm sorry about the stupid fight that we had yesterday."
"Me too. I thought a lot about it last night. Along with other things."
"Same."
A few moments passed between us before one of us spoke again.
"This is the last time that we'll see each other."
I blushed and looked down at the ground.
"Yeah." I said. "It is, isn't it?"
"Stop with the flirting you two!" Moose said, opening the doors and killing the moment.
"We weren't flirting!" I said, my cheeks getting redder by the second. "We were just talking like regular human beings."
"Yeah. Sure. Whatever." He said. After a few moments, he added, "You two are all clear. Have a fun-filled night."
"Whatever." I said, rolling my eyes. "I guess we will."

We went into the office and the phone rang. We stood around and wait for Bree to say the very last of her bullshit.
"My last two guinea pigs." She said, trying to sound upset but she wasn't doing a very good job of actually faking it. "This is quite tragic. We've reached the last night that I'll be able to talk to you guys. You may think of it as some sort of miracle but it breaks my heart. And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I don't actually have a heart. Well, I do. How the hell else do I live? Let's just say that my heart is very black. It's as black as coal. But I'll quit talking about that. I'll move on to a much more important subject. And that's what you can expect on this night. What you can expect is the difficultly to be through the roof. My little friend Golden Freddy will be triggered more and the animatronics are gonna give all they got tonight. They're done playing nice. Well, not they ever really played nice in the first place but just know that this night will determine the special little surprise I have for the survivor. And yes, I actually thought of a little prize to give the survivor. Yes, I was playing nice. You should appreciate the fact that I was playing nice in the first place. Well, have fun."
As soon as she hung up, I went over to the vents and my partner went over to the cameras and said that they would take over the flashlight too.
"I want you to make it."
"What?" I asked, putting on my mask because Golden Freddy decided to pay us a little visit. My partner did the exact same thing. "Why me? I want you to make it."
"You've got a life to live."
"Well, you do too."
"Not really. The only person I really have is you."
"I still want you to live. You deserve it."
"You deserve it more."
I rolled my eyes, not really wanting to have another fight. This was the very last night and I didn't really want to end it off with a bad note. I wanted good memories. Well, as good as memories of a haunted pizzeria with a psycho ginger running the whole thing can get. I didn't know if Bree was ginger or not but she sounds ginger and she acts ginger so I'm just going to assume that that's her hair color.
"Let's just agree to disagree." I said. "How does that sound?"
"I'm okay with that. I mean, if I didn't, then we'd be sitting here arguing with you the entire night."
"Yeah." I said. I paused to put on the mask because Old Bonnie had come in the room. When he was out, I added, "Hey, would it sound really crazy if I told you that I like you?"
"You're seriously saying that at a time like this?"
"Well, there was no really good time to tell you until now." I said, trying to defend myself. "Besides, the first three nights I was trying to figure out my feelings for you. I was confused."
"I suppose you have a point when you say that there wasn't really a good time. Because there wasn't." We both paused while we put on our masks to wait out Old Chica.
When she left, I said, "Yeah. So I like you. Simple as that."
"Well," my partner paused to think about their feelings. "I guess I like you too."
"There's no "I guess" about it." I said. "It's either you like me or not."
They smiled and I could see them blushing as they said, "Fine. I like you. There's no "I guess"'s about it. I thought that you were really annoying at first but then I came to realize that I liked you. A lot."
I smiled and then noticed that the music box was about to run out.
"You might want to get the music box." I said, pointing to the camera.
My partner looked at it and then closed the camera.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked. "We're going to die if you don't wind that up!"
"I don't care." My partner said, taking a few steps towards me. "One of us is destined to die tonight. One way or another."
I could hear the jingle of the music box. Whatever was in there was coming to get us. And we had so little time left together.
"You're right." I said, taking a few steps closer to my partner. I took their hands in mine and added, "That's why I want to do this before I regret it."
"Wh-?"
They were cut off by me kissing them. I heard the music box getting closer by the second and I felt my heart beating faster and faster in my chest. When I heard the music box right outside the doorway, I shoved my partner to the side and didn't even flinch as the puppet jumped on me and caused me to fall to the ground. I didn't struggle though.
"It's better this way." I thought as the puppet started choking me. "I just got to keep telling myself that."

Right before I died, I heard my name being called. But it was in a way that sounded heartbreaking and I almost felt bad for leaving her behind.
"Astro!"