Just Another Ghostly Story

Curse

"This is... where I got hurt the other day..."

Before she notices, her random steps and tantrum lead her back to the scene of the incident that took place a couple days ago. The day she transformed for the first time by her will and suffered the most painful wound of her life so far. Just remembering the scenery that plays out at that time triggers a traumatic response, hugging and covering her arm like an old injury that flares up again. As she's breaking sweat profusely, she attempts to calm herself back down.

"It's okay.. It's okay... It's not real.. It's not real... I'm fine.." she chants to herself as if casting a mantra.

'that damage felt very real back then... like my arm were torn off... that was the most intense pain I've ever felt... after that I-' she recalls her experience.
'what happened after that...? I remember crying in the hallway thinking my hand was gone and.. there were other people there... and..I can't remember well, it's all so blurry...'

Chaotic fragments of her memory from that day plays out inside her head, but it got so mixed up that it felt like a dream. Then certain scenery replays in her mind
'Daisuke kun... outside...'
The memory of her looking up to him, in his arm while he was  walking below the trees outside.

'nobody ever mentioned that incident to me after that, did they not saw me? Did Daisuke kun brought me out before they could?' she forgot about her psychosomatic pain and bring her palm to her chest, a smile carved on the damsel's face. The image of Daisuke seen from below while he fiercely focuses ahead flows her memory fondly.

'thinking back... he looked kinda cool back then...'

As she walks along that dark empty hallway, looking out the third floor window with that distanced nostalgic expression on her face, her anger and confusion subsides. A realization.

'whether or not he's doing it because of the curse or because he's making up for yesterday, it doesn't really matter anymore...'

"I actually..." her mouth finally expresses her thought.
"see Daisuke kun as-"
But before she could complete her confession to herself, a sight outside the window distracts her brain.

the corner of her eyes picked up something outside the window.

She turns toward the court below between the building. Checking if whatever it is that caught her attention was down there. Desperate as she seeks, aside from the trees and several garden benches, nothing stands out. The creeps is starting to get to her. Her steps quicken.

'Euhh... I might've ran off without thinking then, but now I really am alone by myself... Just thinking about it makes me recall the story they told me...'
She's reminded of what her classmates told her earlier today.

"If all the signs of this curse show up to you, by that night, before you go to sleep, a giant head will come to claim your head and take it's place... Wandering the world as a head"

Now that she's finally noticing the graveness of her situation and thinking back upon the story, the fear starts to kick back in. Covering her head with both her arm, she cowers alone on the floor "Wwuahh!!! Why do I have to remember that now!? But th-that can't be real right? Daisuke kun even said so... but the signs... N-no no! Even so, judging from the story, a giant floating head, that sounds like an Okubi! They're not evil, They won't hurt humans! That's right, even if it's true I won't be harmed!!" Desperately she tries to calm her nerves down as she make haste along the empty dark hallway.

"But I really don't want to find that out right now, I have to get back to Daisuke kun- no screw it! I'll just head straight home at this point! Who cares about the mission!!" She steels her nerve one last time to escape this situation altogether.