Ok so this is my first FanFiction so don't hate if you don't like it. At least I tried! Rated M for violence and death and other scary crap, not lemons. I'm sorry if Neru is a little OOC.
Contagious
I walked along beside the desolate road, thinking.
I let my breath out in a long sigh. "I hate this! I must be the most unpopular person in my school! Just because people would rather suck up to Miku than be bother trying to be my friend," I said, talking to myself as I did so many times.
I turned a corner into the town square. I felt my lips curl up into a smile as I looked around. I loved to come here when I was in a bad mood. No one ever bothered me.
You see, the people in this town can be so very superstitious. Around ten years ago a gruesome double murder took place here. Right in this square in fact. Two young girls were the victims. One was stabbed multiple times. The other was thrown off the clock tower in the square, all the bones in her body broken.
"But seriously. You'd think death was contagious the way those idiots avoid this place," I scoffed, walking slowly to the center of the square, taking in my surroundings.
The square was just about as bleak as the rest of this side of town. A few boarded up buildings that were probably businesses once. A simple fountain in the middle, murky water still sitting inside it.
I walked around the fountain, trailing my fingers along the rough edge. Looking up I saw my favorite place, the clock tower. Taller than any other building by far. It was beautiful. A gothic style building, its dark bricks crumbling from the sides though the brass bell still gleamed as if it was new. At the very top of the building there was an old, dirty clock face that still worked even after being abandoned for so long. There was a large opening at the very top of the building, but there was no way to get up there.
I ran up to the tower and threw the door open, quickly climbing the steep stairs, only slowing down when I reached the huge bell. I stood and stared at it, watching the sunlight gleam against the smooth surface. It wasn't much of anything really. Just an oversized bell. But the sound that came out of it was gorgeous.
Every night at midnight the bell strikes twelve times exactly. You can hear it all the way to the more populated side of town. No one knows how it still chimes so of course those idiots would say it was the girls' ghosts that did it.
"Tch. The stories people come up with. Their just scaring themselves," I muttered.
I walked around the huge bell slowly and looked around at the empty room. There were only a few small windows circling the room. The limited light created shadows in the places were it didn't reach, creating a dark and gloomy atmosphere. Other than the bell, the room was empty. Unless you counted the dust. There was enough of it to mutate and attack someone.
I looked over into a dark corner of the room and saw the stairs I had climbed to get up here and walked over to them, sending up small puffs of dust with every step I took. Right next to them were another set of stairs that went up into the top most room in the tower.
I stepped on them and took my time walking up them, since my destination wasn't as far. After a few minutes I arrived at what was probably the most interesting place in this run-down little town. I was in the room that held the mechanism for the clock. Of course, the clock being as huge as it is the mechanism is just as large. I smiled as I walked in the room. It was full of huge gears and springs that I had no idea what on earth they did, but they kept the clock going. There was light shining through the nearly transparent clock face, giving the room a soft glow. I saw a gleam out of the corner of my eye and turned to the heavy brass weights strung up on pulleys along the side of the wall.
I walked over to them and ran my hand along on of the chain pulleys before grabbing a hold of it. Yes, I am the mysterious ghost girl who keeps the clock running. It's pretty easy actually. All you have to do is pull the weights up about once a week. I pulled half-heartedly and sighed. I definitely wasn't strong enough to pull them up myself though. I stepped back a little and ran towards the weight. As soon as I was a few feet away from knocking myself unconscious (running head first into a large metal object can do that to you) I jumped and latched onto the chain, about ten feet from the ground. I wrapped my arms and legs around it as I started moving down. I could never have pulled these weights up all by myself so this was my alternative; I just jumped onto the chain of the pulley and let my weight pull it up.
There were six weights, so it took awhile. Jumping onto the chains, waiting for it to lower me to the ground, and then repeating the process. I got done eventually, even though my 98 pounds was barely enough to pull me down. I walked to the large clock face and put my hand up to it, leaning on the thick, sturdy glass. It was more than enough to support my weight. I probably couldn't break it even if I tried.
But that was just another strange thing about the girls' deaths. No one knew how the girl that jumped had jumped from. Some people had said that she had jumped from the clock tower, seeing as none of the other buildings were nearly tall enough to break every freaking bone in her body, but there was no possible way. Unless she suddenly decided she was spider-man or something and tried to climb up the side of the wall. There was that opening at the very top of the building, the window with no glass, but you couldn't get up there. Trust me; I had looked every where for some secret door or hidden stairs or something that would take me up to the mysterious room behind the shadowy opening, but there was none.
I strode away from the clock face and headed back toward the stairs and walked back down them, taking much less time than I had climbing them. It was hard to estimate how tall the building was, seeing as there were only the two rooms at the top, but it had to be about twenty stories. I sighed loudly when I finally got to the bottom of the stairs. I walked past the fountain again and turned into an alley that I knew would lead me home.
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