My name is Ah Kui, I am 13 years old, and I lived in Malaysia, the year is 1973.
Today is a special day, its our school trip to somewhere, I am not sure where, just, somewhere.....
We were in our yellow school bus, everyone is talking to everyone , its very loud, I sit alone in the bus , with my friend Yue Niang, she is very quiet, I also don't feel like talking, the bus is very noisy.
I stare outside the window, it is suppose to be night time, its actually 11pm now, but the sky is autumn yellow, felt like the scene in battlestar galactica, all around us, its empty, deserted, its just us, in the bus, very noisy.
Then the bus stopped. Our teachers, all Malay man with fierce looking face, ordered us to get out of the bus. My classmate stopped talking, they looked afraid, and we step out of the bus.
Our teacher do the headcount, and then told us to hike the hill in front of us, and tell us to gather on top of the hill. I looked ahead. It was a cemetery. Everyone started climbing. My friend Yue Niang halt me, "Ah Kui, don't go up there, please... stay here with me, please " she begged me.
"Hey !! You two", the Malay teacher yelled, "Go , now !!", pointing his fingers over the hill. I looked at my friend, she is shaking, I looked in front, I extended my left leg, I started climbing.
I climb, and climb, the soil is wet, in front, several students ahead of me, I just keep climbing, and climbing, and I saw a body, a women, dirty with mud, rotten, almost skeleton like, I ignored her. I keep climbing .I saw something shiny, a silver necklace, I picked it up, its cold, I threw it away. And I saw more bodies, anyone who lay on my path, I walk across them, paying no attention to them. And without me realise it, I reached the hill top.
There is an abandoned school on top of the hill. We went inside, the teachers congratulated us. We went to the school toilet to take a bath, the toilet got no door, just curtains hanging from the top till our waist line.Everyone took their bath. I skipped mine.
The sky is still autumn yellow. I walk around the school, went inside a dark classroom, and sat on the teacher's sit. Just , stared at the room.
Suddenly I heard screams, coming from outside. I stood up from my sit, walked outside, and saw my friend Yue Niang, screaming like she is being choked, her eyes filled with pain, she looked unnaturally skinny, hair wet and messy, dark eye circles below her puffy void pupil.
She was being held by a Malay teacher A, who chant something under his breath, I walked towards them, I wanna help calm my friend down. My teacher B grab my hand. "Don't touch her", my teacher B warned. I stilled. Now, I started to feel scared.
My teacher A guide Yue Niang to a class room, they walked pass me, Tue Niang suddenly grabbed me, in that instant I felt cold and weak, it felt like there is something passed thru my body, and I can't move and I collapsed.
Teacher B immediately hold me and chat something under his breath, I wanna move, but I can't, I heard myself wailing, it sounded non human, like some animal in pain, but I felt nothing, surely that disembodied scream not coming from me, right ? What is going on ? I... I need to move, ughh, I struggled
And I woke up
Ohh, a dream, hah
Its 2015, Monday morning 7am, I need to work, I got up, brushed my teeth, saw my reflection in the mirror, its some middle aged women with creepy face staring at me, the face looked familiar, but its not me, its.... Its Yue Niang ~!!
