Just Another Ghostly Story

(01) Coincidence/Accident

"My name is Kitahara Mizuki, a 16 years old highschool girl at Hokubu High. I lived an ordinary life at school, though a lonely one. I can't remember it well but I graduated middle school without any friends. For some reason people avoid me at school then, and it changed somehow before I realized it. So I've decided, I'll also graduate from my lonely school life in highschool. I say that but, even though I've been social with everyone around me, I still don't have the confidence to be close with anyone. As a result, I'm not part of any group of friends yet- No no! I choose to not be! Yes! that's it."

The day shines bright today just as any other day. The weather's not too cold despite Hokubu town being one of the northernmost among the other province.

"Mizu-chan! Did ya hear me?" the call snaps Mizuki out of her daydream, she turns to her friend who now looks slightly annoyed by her 'out of there' look "like I said, don't you find it annoying? If he actually cares about me that much should be obvious. Thats what couples do after all right?" Mizuki just smiles to the sassy girl's complaint of her busy love life.

"Saotome's not easy to impress huh? What's this, the 3rd guy already?" a long haired schoolgirl comments on the troubled girl's love problem. Mizuki just laughs gently, humouring the idle chattering without fully agreeing with her to avoid offending the girl in question.

It's at calm days like this that Mizuki reminisce her previous school life in middle school. "Huh? That's weird.." she thought, "what was my middle school like?" Her thoughts are slightly inconsistent, or rather she'd lost access to her childhood memory somehow. Her eyes darted to another lass having just arrived and already placed down her bag on the seat next to her. A faint melody fills the air. The girl speaks something in her direction but Mizuki can't really make out what the message are, sunken underneath the unexplainable tune. Suddenly the whole class turned silent except for that faint tune whispering in the wind. A familiar tune no louder than a sleeping person's hum. "This is my..." Mizuki woke up.

It was all a dream, defeated by the fatigue of afterschool chores, she'd fallen asleep in her class while the sun already shy away from the day. "I overslept after class! This is too reckless." she rushingly packs her things and makes her way through the hallway, heading home "hope they haven't locked the main door" She tried recalling the event on the day that'd drained her energy so, but nothing in particular comes to mind except for the ghostly rumor entailing the school's condition at night. It was the talks of her classmates and pretty much everyone at school, and it sticks out in her memory. A ghastly rumour that she'd rather not think about especially now of all times. Even having it just passed briefly in her memories is already making her see things in the corner of her eyes.
"No no, that's not gonna happen to me!" she desperately takes her mind off such thought.

As she reaches the main entrances, or in her case, the main exit to the building. She's hit with another dilemma "It's.. already locked..." she fell to her knees in a dramatic fashion. Tired from having ran all that meters for nothing. "But wait-" She got back on her feet "If I recall, there's another old door with a stairway out on the second floor" An alternative exit.

And a hand.

It touches her shoulder and spooked the living soul out of her, a masculine hand, yet gentle. But it caught her off guard as she did not thought there are still people in the building. Her reaction also in turn spooked the boy. One of her schoolmates apparently as he's wearing Hokubu High's uniform.

'never saw him before.. or maybe I did?' she thought as she jogs her memory. Seeing him already triggers a faint memory from today's event, at an intersection to school once just barely and at school behind her today almost every recollection of today's scene have him in it like a central figure of a drama.