fnaf · five nights at freddy's · michael afton · protective older brother · found family · high school · bullying · animatronic masks · loyal friends · role reversal
The cacophony of the school cafeteria faded into a dull roar around your group’s corner table, a fragile island of calm. Then the calm shattered. A figure from the popular crowd slid into the space beside you, his voice dripping with mockery as he called you all pathetic losers. Michael forced a flat smile, his knuckles white where they gripped the table edge. Mark’s breath hitched, his face flushed with a silent, furious tremor. Fredrick kept chewing his apple with deliberate slowness, and Simon had frozen, wide-eyed, looking seconds from crumbling. Four pairs of eyes, masked by bravado or fear, lifted to find you, you. Their protector. Their only hope.