A janitor turns the corner of Camptown High, he begins walking down the English hall which is located on the second floor of Camptown High.
Windows are displayed on the left side, showing a open field, in the distance you can see the lights for the football stadium behind a patch of trees.
On the right is English rooms going from English 1, English 2, English 3, and English 4 for all the grades.
The lights in the English hall always seem to never stay on for 2 weeks.
They always have been going out before 2 weeks since the school was built in the late 1980's.
The time is now 6:41 pm on a Friday night, all the students are now either at home or are at the football game against Point Pleasant.
Camptown's football team has been said to be the best football team in West Virginia, losing only 3 games last season.
The janitor looks at the lights that shine over the football field from the inside of Camptown high.
He is on night duty of mopping the floors.
He claims it's his favorite, he says it lets him slip into another world out of this one.
He begins to walk to the janitors closet.
Not the one with the black door though.
The black door doesn't open.
No one has opened it since the beginning of man itself.
It will kill all of humanity if it's loose.
Never let it out.
Never.
Let.
It.
Go.
The janitor opens the janitorial closet and takes out the yellow bucket and the long mop, he gets ready for tonight.
He plugs his earphones into his iPhone 4 and turns on his favorite playlist.
Gorillas begins to play.
He begins his shift.
The janitor swishes the mop into the already filled bucket and slaps it to the floor.
He swings it left to right, up and down, he picks the mop back up and slaps it back into the bucket for the refill.
He does this for the next 20 minutes.
The door speaks.
The janitor swiftly turns to face the black door.
He takes out his earphones.
He then slowly walks towards the door.
He puts out his hand and slowly clutches the door knob.
You can open it, it's okay.
He turns the knob slowly and peers into what's behind the mysterious black door.
It's dark.
Very dark.
Too dark.
He enters the doorway.
He can't see anything.
He turns back and walks to the the janitors closet.
He grabs a small flashlight and enters back into the dark room.
He turns it on to find out it's barely even lighting up anything in the room.
He then enters the room and closes the door, making sure no one would follow him through.
You find this place familiar.
It's a stairwell going down.
It's on a platform. The top platform that is.
He shines the light down the first staircase, it doesn't go down all the way, in fact it only shines a quarter of the way down the first flight.
He takes one step onto the first step going down.
He still can't see anything.
He clutches his jacket and begins to walk down the first flight of stairs.
He makes it to the second platform, he then turns and looks down the second flight.
Same as the first, he can only see a quarter of the way down.
He thinks nothing too strange of it and begins walking down the second flight and then makes it to the third platform.
He looks up to see the first platform he started on and then looks down the third flight of stairs, it's still the same as the last two.
He begins to walk down the third flight.
He begins this fashion for the next 10 flights of stairs.
He then begins to hear an odd wailing noise.
He can't make out what it could be and gets curious and wants to find out.
Thinking it's further down, he begins his walk further down the stairwell.
He can finally make it out clearly after making it to the next platform to be a little kid crying.
He frantically runs down two more flights and can now make the crying out to be a little girl.
She sobs for help.
"HELLO!?" The janitor yells out.
The crying doesn't stop, it just goes on, saying the same words.
After the janitor goes down four more flights of stairs and begins to realize that the crying isn't getting any closer to where he is.
It sounds like it's the same distance down as from when he first heard it.
He thinks to himself that he has to be under the school 100% but has never seen what's down here before.
The black door never opened.
The school said nothing about the door.
And never tried to open it.
For the janitor though, it called for him and unlocked the black door.
The janitor begins to regret his decision of coming down here.
Then he hears the little girl's cries overwhelm his own thoughts.
He believes she needs help and needs to help her.
She may be seriously hurt or lost.
He looks back up the stairs, again, only seeing a quarter of the way up and then shines the light down the next flight of stairs.
He continues.
On the next platform he moves the light to face down the next flight to see the face.
Voided eyes.
No mouth.
Dark gray.
Clearly visible.
Laugh marks are massive across its face.
The janitor begins to tremble.
"Hello? Who is down there?" The janitor asks the face as he backs up against the wall.
It's cold. Very cold.
The face blinks.
"OH FUCK THIS!" The janitor screams as he lifts his feet back up the stairs going up.
He runs up several flights and looks back to see that darkness is chasing him.
He runs even faster.
He trips a couple of times.
After running up four more flights he begins to grow extremely tired.
He glares back to see the dark mass following him up the stairs.
Inside the dark mass is the face, starring directly at him, making zero facial expressions.
The janitor screams, he picks up his feet again and with the very little energy he has in him, he makes a desperate run back up.
He feels a dark presence grab his left ankle as he makes it to the third platform.
He falls to the ground to find the dark mass has caught up to him and he looks down to his ankle to see it deteriorating.
It's turning into a black, sticky sludge.
"OH GOD, OH FUCK PLEASE HELP!!" The janitor screams out.
Of course, no one can hear you in here.
The dark mass is slithering up his leg and eating him away.
He feels no pain though.
After the next minute the dark mass eats the janitor whole. It only leaves a black sludge behind in his place. The entire room and stairwell goes black.
The black door locks.
No one is to open the black door.
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