How am I going to survive this? How in the world am I going to survive this? My heart's racing as I walk outside. My mom told me that someone was going to show me to the "Skool".

I wonder who.

I really hope it's not going to be Rinni, Leef, or Squoo. That would be a nightmare.

Because those three are officially nutjobs. I hear a knock on the door, and open it.

There's a girl who seems a little younger than me.

"Are you Danielle?" She asks. I nod and walk outside.

"I'm Louina, I'm supposed to show you the way to the Skool. Let's go," For a younger kid she sounds pretty serious.

"Alright."

At least she's not crazy.

"So, has anyone told you about the ghosts?" Spoke too soon.

"Yes, as a matter of fact they have," I say.

"Who?"

"Rinni, why?" Louina grins.

"Oh, good! She does know the most about them. We should get going! Wait, what grade are you in?"

"Fifth."

"Okay. That would be Room Twenty-Six and Twelve Fifteenths."

"Show me," How are rooms divided into Fifteenths, anyway?

"Follow me! Also, your teacher might be mean, but I think she'll be better than the one before! She was the fifth grade teacher when the dead kids were still alive, but you have a new one now! She just started last year!"

Eventually we get to a room labeled this:

25 & 11/15

I can only assume that's it, so I walk in and take a seat. There's a young woman who I'm guessing is the teacher.

"So, your old teacher for this grade retired. And you're lucky. I don't try to be as evil as her. Now, who's here?" She calls roll. Everyone's here.

"Now, who's heard of the ghosts?" Ghosts this, ghosts that. I raise my hand, and so does everyone else.

"Good. Now we're going to be getting to work. Five plus five is ten. You hear that? Five plus five is ten," Someone puts their hand up.

"Yes?"

"Why are you going over simple addition?"

"It's my classroom, it's my rules," she says, and goes on with the lesson.

-!-!-!-!-!-

At the period we're supposed to get to lunch, I notice something everyone else is ignoring. There's a wall that looked like it once had a door to a hallway, but it got boarded shut. It must be what Rinni, Squoo, and Leef were all talking about.

"Hello?" I ask. I don't get an answer.

"Helloo?" Still nothing.

"Come out? I come in peace," I'm about to leave. I knew this ghost business was fake. But then something catches my eye-an eye. A single eye. Like, what the hell is a random eye doing here? Not that I'm thinking that. I'm mostly scared out of my mind.

Great. Now fear's making me start to hallucinate. The eye blinks.

"Go away, stupid hallucination thing!" I shout, backing off. I see a tear form. I run off and sit at an empty table.

"Hey, you saw the ghost," A kid sits next to me. I recognize him from class. He's the one who asked about the math. I nod, though it's mostly just to humor him.

"What did you see?"

"A disembodied...um...Y'know?" I'm feeling awkward saying it. Perhaps the ghost thing is some grand scheme and I'm so paranoid I'm thinking that they're real! That's a rather unsettling thought.

"They say that they killed him by pulling his body parts out, limb by limb. That's why you only see some of him! What did you see, anyway?" Everyone at this school's a total Wacko.

"An eye," I say.

"Cool!"

So, he thinks seeing disembodied eyes is cool. There's a line between weirdness and just being plain disturbing, and he's just crossed it. I go to another table.

Rinni told me about this ghost. If it's real, are the others real, too?

The school day's not even over and I'm feeling quite a bit worried.

Sorry for giving you this 707 word monstrosity. Finally I get to introduce the ghosts a bit more! R&R