The group, along with Damian, enters the dark classroom where the transfer student was supposedly killed. Ethan flicks on a flashlight, its beam cutting through the gloom, but the room seems eerily empty.
"There's nothing here," Gabriel whispers nervously, glancing around.
Suddenly, a sharp click echoes through the room. The door locks. The group turns around in panic, only to see Damian standing by the door, holding the key with a sinister smile.
"Damian... what are you doing?" Lily's voice wavers, her eyes wide in disbelief.
Without a word, Damian pulls out a knife. The metallic glint in the dim light causes everyone to freeze.
"What the hell?I" Gabriel stammers. taking a step back.
Before anyone can react, Damian swiftly moves toward lily but Gabriel blocked Damian attack and snatching the keys and throwing it to lily
"Run!" Gabriel yells, as lily Opened the door and their expression change's to hope thinking they can escape but the transferred student suddenly killed lily
As Damian manically laughed and said to Gabriel your sacrifice is in vane you failed to protect your princess
"Why are you doing this?" Ethan's voice shakes as he pleads for an explanation.
Damian chuckles, wiping the blood from the knife on his sleeve. "Why?" His grin widens. "Oh. Ethan, I knew you'd ask that."
The transfer student steps out from the shadows, her face expressionless as she joins Damian's side. The group watches in horror, their minds racing, trying to make sense of what's happening.
"Did you really not notice?" Damian says with a mocking tone. "You never saw her dead body. The guard and I were the only ones to take her to the hospital. No one was allowed at the funeral. I've always been the one handling the CCTV footage for the police. Everything pointed to the female teacher, didn't it? This was all part of my plan. Even her seducing you for a month was planned."
The group stands speechless, eyes. wide in terror.
"I saw a dog once," Damian says, his voice calm yet menacing. "When a man held a rock, the dog cowered, terrified. But when he held food, it came crawling back, hopeful. The switch-It was so sudden, so complete. I found that fascinating."
Lily, struggling to keep her composure, asks, "What... what does that have to do with this?"
"Humans are no different," Damian replies coldly, his voice dropping lower. "The moment you hold something they fear, they change. They kneel, they beg, their pride crumbles. I love watching them plead for mercy, their faces filled with hope, thinking I'll give them mercy."
He steps closer, towering over the group as they back away. "And then- snatching that hope away, watching them crumble again. That's when you see the real beauty in fear."
Lily gasps as the realization sets in. "You... you're insane."
"Insane?" Damian laughs darkly. "Perhaps. But I've never felt more
alive."
He turns to the group, his expression twisting into something even more sinister. "It's amazing how no one suspects a ghost story," he whispers. "That's how easy it is to control you all. To make you dance in fear."
The transfer student, still standing
silently by Damian's side, steps forward and locks eyes with Ethan. "I told you from the start, we were meant to be together... forever."
Despair washes over the group as Damian raises the knife again. One by one, the screams of his former
friends echo through the room as he and the transfer student begin their
deadly work.
YOU ARE READING
school of shadows
Mystery / Thriller( a short story) At a school marked by a tragic murder, a group of friends becomes intrigued by a new transfer student, only to find themselves entangled in a web of mystery and betrayal. As they embark on a ghost hunt to uncover the truth, they fac...
