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Five Nights at Freddy's The Silver Eyes

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to find a strip from a photo booth, four shots of her parents alone. <strong>The</strong>y smiled <strong>at</strong> each<br />

other, then made faces <strong>at</strong> the camera, then laughed, missing the chance to pose and<br />

blurring their faces. Last they smiled into the lens. Her mother was beaming happily <strong>at</strong><br />

the camera, her face alight and flushed, but her f<strong>at</strong>her was staring into the distance, his<br />

smile fixed on his face as if he had left it there by mistake. His dark eyes were intense,<br />

remote, and Charlie resisted a sudden urge to look behind her, as if she might see<br />

wh<strong>at</strong>ever it was he was looking <strong>at</strong>. She peeled back the cellophane from the album’s<br />

page and took the strip out, then folded it in half, careful to place the crease between<br />

pictures, leaving them intact. She slipped the pictures into her pocket, and looked <strong>at</strong><br />

John, who was w<strong>at</strong>ching her again, as if she were some kind of unpredictable cre<strong>at</strong>ure<br />

he needed to be careful around.<br />

“Wh<strong>at</strong>?” She said.<br />

“Charlie, you know I don’t think he did it, right?”<br />

“You said th<strong>at</strong>.”<br />

“I’m serious, it’s not just wh<strong>at</strong> Carlton’s dad said. I knew him, as well as a kid<br />

can know some other kid’s dad—he wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t believe it.” He spoke<br />

with calm certainty, like someone who believed th<strong>at</strong> the world was made out of facts<br />

and tangible things, and th<strong>at</strong> there was such a thing as truth. Charlie nodded.<br />

“I know,” she said. She took her next bre<strong>at</strong>h slowly, g<strong>at</strong>hering the words she<br />

would speak with it. “But I might.” His eyes widened, startled, and she looked up <strong>at</strong> the<br />

ceiling for a minute, briefly trying to remember if all the cracks had been there when she<br />

was a child.<br />

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