April, 15 2015

Thursday

After school, me and two of my friends always ended up in the classroom telling ghost stories. This time, it was my turn after Rei. She was always the most persistent, and the almost best ghost story teller here. Other than me, I was the best there ever was. That I knew of anyway, though I guess you could add Haru in the mix as well. She was slightly even better than me, but I could always pull through to the end with a story.

"Anyway, when the policemen came back outside to take the girl back to the station. He froze once he saw the remains of what was left of the girl laying on the ground in pieces, it was a bloodied mess. All that was left of her was her head, arms, and the legs. He screamed, or at least tried to when nothing came out. Suddenly he felt hands around his neck, choking the life out of him. Then at the last second possible, he fell to the ground covered in a scarlet color that was almost looking like blood. And it was, the last thing he saw was the eyes of anger as he died." I finished softly.

Letting silence cover the horrible end to the story, I could tell that my story and spooked and freaked out both my best friends. Though they both were trying to hid it, I could even tell they were still shaking from it too. They apparently weren't good at hiding from fear of a story at all, eh... no big pain though. I bet the last story will be even more realistic than mine anyway.

"But it says, that whoever tells this will never be heard from again." I added lastly.

Let's see how they react now to this ending.

"My god Mai, how you put terrifying endings in your stories. They really creep me out." said Rei, shaking from fear.

"Thanks Rei. I know you're scared of the dark." I teased affectionately.

"Hey, that's a offensive you know. I may be a little, but I always love a ghost story you whip up." Rei said defensively.

"I think it's my turn now, don't you think." Haru said softly, and very eerily.

"Yes, it is. Let me turn off my light first." I said nicely.

After, I turned off my light and waited as we both turned our attention to Haru.

"So, my story is about the old apartment building all the students used to live in. The one that's just behind the our school now, it's also known to be haunted too. Once a student got murdered, and her killer was never caught. Then years later, another young student was murdered. In the exact room too. Soo the apartments were closed, and the students had to live with their parents again. Except for one girl, she had no parents or family so she stayed. And never had friends over either. One day, a couple of juniors were walking by the apartments when they heard a sudden scream coming from it. They rushed inside to find the girl dead, by a piece of rope hung to a piece of rafter. It was thought she committed suicide, but they were deadly wrong." she paused suddenly.

Letting the truth slowly come through to the light but was it really truth or just a story?

Then Haru continued, "After a few months they discovered her, mysterious things started happening to those two juniors. Then one suddenly disappeared, then the other had a terrible accident that involved a car. Sadly she died, though they did say she had survived that accident. So how did she die? They never knew why, or found out why either. The night of the full moon landed on friday the thirteenth, a very dangerous and mysterious day. Though that day, nothing happened that day. Nothing dangerous or mysterious. Later at night, a young freshmen stayed the night at the apartments to see if they were haunted. She saw a ghost of the supposedly girl who committed suicide, and she saw that she started laughing crazily. The ghost started glowing a bright white, and another person came to view. It was that freshman's world history teacher, he was always a weird one. And that was when he fell to the floor, the girl rushed forward and checked his pulse. He was dead, she screamed loudly."

"Then the girl ghost came forward and explained. Apparently he was the one who killed both those young students years ago. And the one that had raped her too, but he didn't have time to kill her. She had felt violated, and couldn't live with it. And that student who had disappeared, it was his doing, and the one who had the accident too. She confessed it was her doing that there was trouble at school every day, but she couldn't live with what he was still doing to the young women of this school. So she decided to do something about it. And that's when she became a wolf, the protector of our school. And legend goes that she protects every student here, but the ones she protects the most is the women here." Haru finished, leaving us breathless.

"Wow, that was totally awesome Haru! I loved it, it was soo good." I said excitedly.

"Yeah same here, though it was sad that she killed herself but I get it. I'm not sure if I could live with that either." Rei said quietly.

And that's when Haru turned off her flashlight, which turned the classroom pitch black.

"Yeah, but let's hope that she'll come today and see us." I said.

"Yeah, me too." said Rei and Haru.

Apparently there was a myth that said if you're in a classroom after school telling ghost stories, she will come to see you. Or one of those poor girls who were murdered, though so far no one has come just yet. Which was sad, but I couldn't wait for it. And it was apparent that she spoke to whoever was in the room too, which was awesome too. Suddenly I felt a presence in the room, it felt heavy. Like whoever was here, was very powerful in spirit.

"Well, who are you three?" said a voice.

That's when Rei and Haru screamed their heads off until the light switch was turned on. Revealing a guy in all black clothing, with light blue eyes. Hmmm... who was he? I've never seen him before. That's when Rei and Haru stopped screaming and saw him, and then they ran toward him. Man, they were always interested in a hot guy that steps into a room that they're in. It always embarrass me, always. Cause I'm almost never into them anyway, so I usually just leave the room. But... this guy was different somehow, I sorta felt weird looking at him. That's why I quickly shifted my eyes away when they met his, it felt strange looking into his eyes. Even for a brief second. I stood up quickly, feeling my knees crack.

"Ouch, that hurt." I said softly.

That's when Rei and Haru turned around with concerned eyes for me.

"What's wrong Mai?" Rei asked, stepping toward me.

"Nothing, I just popped my knees. It hurt for a second, but it felt nice." I replied softly.

"If you're sure that's all it was?..." Haru said.

"Positively." I said.

"Okay." they said.

Then they went back to chatting with mister hottie. I walked over to them, and looked at him thoroughly.

"So.. Who are you? And what are you doing here?..." I tried to ask.

"So what grade are you in?" Rei asked interrupting me rudely.

"I'm seventeen." he said smiling.

Though I did notice the smile didn't reach his eyes, they seemed cold and distant. Like there was no life in them or love. How sad. I didn't feel pity, just sympathy as well. I'd never known love either, my parents had left me. Well more like my mother died from childbirth, and after a couple years my father couldn't take it anymore. So he killed himself, and that's how I found him when I got home from preschool. Strange thing was, I didn't cry. I had felt like something was going to happen and I was preparing it too, but I couldn't help myself.

Few tears did fall down my cheek, then my teacher from next door took me in. Luckily she was my favorite, and was very kind to me. I loved it there. Then once high school came around, I moved out and found an apartment for myself. I'm happy that our school was really able to do this for me. Since I lived by myself, they gave my a weekly allowance for home. And let me work, but I didn't have time for it. I just had time for homework, though I always finished it before I got home too.

During the day, I could just get my homework and then go to the library where I could finish it. Anyway, let me get back to this newcomer. Plus, why didn't he just say he was a junior? After all, that's what the normal age for them are. Hmm... definitely weird? And it's not me, I know that for sure.

"So, what's your name? Mister seventeen here?" I challenged.

"Kazuya." he replied with a sarcastic mark.

"Hey, do you wanna tell ghost stories with us tomorrow?" Rei asked nicely.

Geez... why'd she ask? I don't want him to come. Maybe I won't come tomorrow, maybe. Though I probably will.

"Sure, I will." he responded cooly.

That's when he walked out of the classroom, leaving us just standing there. Rei and Haru were looking excited, me on the other hand, I was pissed. I didn't like the way he said that, not at all. Grrr... I hate those types of guys, the ones who seen so level-headed but not really at all. And that ones who are idiotic morons, and the assholes as well. That's when Rei and Haru also walked out of the room, leaving me standing there all by myself. I grabbed my backpack from the floor and just as I turned out the lights and was about to step outside the door, when light suddenly hit the wall in front of me. I froze, not knowing what to do. I slowly turned around to see a white cloak standing in front of me, suddenly the door slammed shut behind me. I turned swiftly on my heels and let out a shriek, I pulled and turned the knob but it wouldn't open at all. I turned around again and put my back against the wall, this was not happening... This wasn't happening to me, why me? Why not someone else? I've never been through this, but then curiosity got the better of me. I slowly calmed down, and looked over at the spirit. It was different than I expected.

It wasn't totally see through, but I could see the human inside. It was weird, nothing, really nothing like those weird ghosts from the movies. But I didn't really believe in those at all, they were fake after all. I dropped my backpack onto the floor, and stepped forward slowly. Then the spirit lifted its hand out toward me, and I lifted my hand toward it.

Suddenly, when our hands met, brightness enlightened around us. For a second I was blinded, I couldn't see anything. That's when the brightness faded slowly, and I was able to see. When I looked in front of me, I still saw the spirit, but it was more different than before. I could actually see more of the spirit than before too, it was weird but so cool. And then, she was gone. That was awfully quick, I really wanted to ask her a question. But it was okay, if she didn't want to, then she didn't have to. I grabbed my backpack from the floor and opened the door, huh, looks like it can open now. Too bad, I wanted to stay here for a little longer. I look over my shoulder once more, and see a large shadow on the wall behind me. Strange, that wasn't there before. Then it moved, like a human. I gasped quickly, and I quickly closed the door and got out of there.

Once outside the school, I looked back over my shoulder again. This time, I saw nothing. Was that shadow nothing but from my imagination? I don't think so. Or was it? I can't be sure. Whatever that was, it was nothing short of being friendly with me. Hopefully I can figure out what just happened to me. And figure out why that shadow moved like a human. There was definitely something mysterious going on here, and I intended to find out.