It all started on that Friday afternoon when I was in swimming practice. I did couple rounds of swimming and I heard Misa calling me.
"Keiko! Practice is over, let's get to the showers and go home." I saw her and Saki waiting for me to get out the pool. I got up to their level and started covering myself with my towel. "Did you hear that tale about the girl dying here?" I looked over at Saki that spoken and shook my head "no tell us" I said. "Well they said she died from being bullied too much by the other girls because she couldn't swim well." I stared at her in shock, "that's terrible" I mumbled. "Let's get going guys, we can talk about these stories later" Misa whined. "Hey you guys can go on without me, I need to talk to Saito Sensei before I leave" I said to them. They giggled and walked away.
I went over to Saito Sensei and asked him about my swimming and if I needed more practice for the big competition next week. He smiled and shook his head. "Keiko you are doing well, just keep doing what you're doing and you will win for sure." I smiled at his words of wisdom and scurried along to the girl's locker room to shower.
When I finished showering I heard a little knock somewhere in the stalls so I walked over to the stalls. All of them were closed on default. I saw one said "occupied" on the knob. I figured it was Misa and Saki trying to scared me so I told them to quit the joke. There was no reply. I bent down and saw someone's feet under. "Hey I know it's you Misa or Saki because I see your feet under" I yelled out. No response. I started to get annoyed so I tried to climb the door and reached my hand over the top opening of the stall. Suddenly the person behind the door grabbed my wrist with force and wouldn't let me free. I screamed and yelled for help trying to maintain my body weight by pushing on the door knob to support myself. Nothing worked, my wrist hurt from whoever was grabbing me.
After a few minutes of struggle, I got my hand free and ran away from the stall. I saw behind me a wrinkly dead hand. It was grey and gave me the frights so I ran for life. I saw the exit as I tried to open the door, but the knob was stuck. I scream and hollered seeing the hand creep around the corner of the hallway. "HELP ME! HELP HURRY HELP ME PLEASE!" My heart was racing frantically as the door sprang open. Looking down at me were Saki, Misa, and Sensei. I cried in his arms as he held me.
"What has happened here?" Sensei looked at me concerned. "I saw someone in there" I yelled still scared. ""Oh my god Keiko what happen to your hand?" Saki pointed to my wrist that was grabbed and saw burned skin on the area that was touched by that demon.
Sensei looked worried, and he went inside the girl's locker room to check the locker I was attacked by. He opened the door and saw no one. Everyone stared at me like I was crazy. Suddenly I felt so alone.
A week has passed since the incident. I was considering of quitting swimming, but I figure I can't give up on my passion. Misa said some words to encourage me. "Keiko, the girl that died was bullied in that room. I don't think she would want you to quit. People believe you. The strange event that happened to you I mean." I smiled and grabbed both Saki and Misa's hand and lead them to the swimming arena and said to them, "I will never quit."