3 Ways

Experiencing Death

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It was a standard sized classroom with a podium up front just a few feet away from the whiteboard. The walls were made from plastered concrete painted in the color of a pale yellow. It was with the help of the lights above that made the paler of the yellow look happier in color. Two tables of the same size sat on the right and left of the room with a fair enough aisle in-between for students to walk through. Victoria shared that lecture classroom with about 20 other students.

Hands were at motion, pens and pencils busy scrawling and leave marks in notebooks. The soft noise of lead and ink hitting the paper surfaced through the air continuously as their professor continued explaining their next assignment. Victoria, alongside them, was so buried in her concentration she'd forgotten about Jin Hyuk.

That was all until one of the chairs at the empty back row flew against the wall and crashed to the ground. The professor ceased speaking and everyone turned around to see the four-wheeled chair lying on the ground with its wheels in motion. In that moment Victoria felt her heart begin to race. She was getting a very, very bad feeling. It definitely was not she who had done that.

Unconsciously she felt her eyes skim back and forth across the empty back row while the professor continued with lecture. The other students as well turned back never minding what had just happened resuming to their concentration, but Victoria was suddenly feeling nervous. Biting her bottom lip and assuring herself that it was probably just her paranoia getting to her she spun back around to continue writing in her notebook.

"Help me." the voice was dim and Victoria almost couldn't hear it, but she lifted her head up to look around.

Her classmates had their head stuck into their books, so it was definitely not them. Figuring that she was hearing things she slightly shook her head and continued writing.

"Help me! I know you can hear me!"

Victoria's eyes widened and a split second later her pen flew out of her hand soaring through the air. She watched as it hit the wall and fall to the ground with a clatter before turning to look at the students and professor who were eyeing her.

"Help!" Jin Hyuk leaned across her table, his palms slamming onto the table as he screamed into her face.

Unable to control herself she let out a loud shriek and swung back in her chair only stopping when the back of her chair hit the table behind her.

"Hey, are you ok?" the student beside her asked.

Victoria's jaws dropped open in fear and she found herself panting. Jin Hyuk was gone, but something was terribly wrong; she could feel it.

"Miss Song? Is something the matter?" the professor asked.

Still unable to get a hold of herself she grabbed her notebook and stuffed it into her backpack before standing up. "I'm sorry, but I have to leave."

With just that she hurried out of the room and once the door was closed behind her she dropped to lean against the wall. It felt like her heart was high up in her throat beating harshly and loudly there. Every blood cell that thrashed through her drummed sensitively against her veins and she could feel each one moving.

Then that was when she felt it. A soft breath of air hissing against her skin and when she turned she saw a flight of her hair midway in the air before it dropped against her shoulder.

"He's here," a voice spoke.

Victoria turned to see a bloody Jin Hyuk standing beside her and threw her hands up against her lips to silence herself. If she screamed anymore and disturbed the classes around her, she'd really get in trouble. The hospital might be the last of her as Chorong had worried.