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Five Nights at Freddy's The Silver Eyes

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fe<strong>at</strong>ures had refined, and his hair was carefully tousled and held in place by some<br />

alchemical hair product. He was almost pretty, for a boy, and wore a black workout<br />

shirt, though she doubted he’d ever worked out a day in his life. He was slouched<br />

forward on the table, resting his chin in his hands. Beside him was John, sitting closest<br />

to the window. John had been the kind of child who got dirty before he even went<br />

outside: there would be paint on his shirt before the teacher handed out the w<strong>at</strong>ercolors,<br />

grass stains on his knees before they came near a playground, and dirt under his<br />

fingernails just after he washed his hands. Charlie knew it was him, because it had to<br />

be, but he looked completely different. <strong>The</strong> grubbiness of childhood had been replaced<br />

by something crisp and clean. He was wearing a ne<strong>at</strong>ly pressed, light green button-down<br />

shirt, the sleeves rolled up and the collar open, preventing him from looking too uptight,<br />

and he was leaned back confidently in the booth, nodding enthusiastically, apparently<br />

absorbed in wh<strong>at</strong>ever Jessica was saying. <strong>The</strong> only concession to his former self was<br />

his hair, sticking up all over his head, and a 5 o’clock shadow, a smug, adult version of<br />

the dirt he was always covered in as a kid.<br />

Charlie smiled to herself. John had been something like her childhood crush,<br />

before either of them really understood wh<strong>at</strong> th<strong>at</strong> meant. He gave her cookies from his<br />

Transformers’ lunchbox and once in kindergarten took the blame when she broke the<br />

glass jar th<strong>at</strong> held colored beads for arts-and-crafts. She remembered the moment, when<br />

it slipped from her hands, and she w<strong>at</strong>ched it fall. She could not have moved fast enough<br />

to c<strong>at</strong>ch it, but she would not have tried. She wanted to see it break. <strong>The</strong> glass hit the<br />

wood floor and sh<strong>at</strong>tered into a thousand pieces, and the beads sc<strong>at</strong>tered, many-colored,<br />

among the shards, and she thought it was beautiful, and then she started to cry. John had<br />

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