Do You Dare...?

High School Spirits

Note: I don't know if there is such a place in Austria but just bear with me.

I am Emma Dumont, I am 17 y/o and I go to an all-girls private school in Austria, though I am from Belgium. On our campus we have 6 buildings, four and a half of which are over 100 years old. We have a mansion at the campus, it was a chapel when the school was run by nuns. The chapel in the mansion was said to be haunted by a boy and a girl and a nun.

The story goes like this. One night, 101 years ago, a girl named Seraphina was praying in the chapel. She was 17 years old and went to my school at that time, Seraphina lived on campus. In the dorms that existed back then. She was about to leave when a boy from a neighboring all-boys school walked in. The boy's name was Roderich, and he was in love with Seraphina.

Though he was not allowed to be there, the two started conversing. All of a sudden, a nun called Sister Elizabeta heard the commotion. It was way past 7:30, the girls' curfew, and the curious nun went in the chapel only to find the pair kissing. Now, Sister Elizabeta had anger issues; she took a candle holder and brought it down upon Roderich's head. The impact immediately split his skull open, and was dead in a matter of minutes.

Sister Elizabeta was also infuriated at Seraphina, she was about to kill her as well when Seraphina shoved her. Sister Elizabeta toppled backwards and fell right into a pew. She rose angrily and took a lit candle. Lighting up Seraphina's hair and uniform on fire, she turned and ran out of the chapel. Turning, she shut the doors of the chapel, locked them and adjusted her habit. She folded her hands and smiled smugly at the barely audible sound of Seraphina's screaming, Sister Elizabeta walked off without looking back.

The next morning, the church was discovered to be half burned to the ground. When the other nuns called for Sister Elizabeta, she was nowhere to be found. Almost a year later, they found a skeleton in a nearby forest. The chapel was rebuilt over the same spot as the old one.

In the present day, I was walking through the hallway of my school to french class. When I decided to go to the chapel to light a candle for my aunt who having surgery that day. As I turned down to the chapel, my friends Erika, Natalia, Katyusha, and Mei followed me. Since we have another 5 minutes before class.

As I picked up some matches, someone smacked them right out of my hand. I turned to see who was next to me and saw Mei, I was about to yell at her for smacking the matches out of my hand. When all of a sudden, Erika gripped her head as if someone had bashed it. Then Katyusha started screaming and pulling at her hair and uniform, Natalia toppled into the pew as if someone had pushed her. And I followed seconds after.

I screamed as all of the candles toppled out of their holders, instantly going out. Then the door was slammed shut, and we heard a loud click as it locked. We saw a nun's habit, and then Mei fainted.

I remembered waking up at home the next morning, thinking it was a dream, but Erika wasn't at school for a week. We found out later that she had "fallen" and her head had broken open.

I don't go to the chapel anymore, and I hardly look at it. There had not been any further encounters since then, but other girls said that they've seen a boy and a girl kissing in the chapel, looking left and right, then vanishing into thin air.

Could it be Seraphina and Roderich's spirits? I don't know for sure, but I sure as hell am not going back in there.

End

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