Cautious Steps

The Prologue

-Miss Allen, Mister Marcus!

A young female student would scream, with the voice of shock, desperately calling for attention, with watery eyes, and her skin red from screaming, she had seen something shocking. Me and Mister Marcus would notice her right away and asked why she was screaming.

-Sammy! She.. she.. killed herself 

Would respond the student, with noticeable trouble from the shock.

-What?! 

Marcus shouted to her, startled.

-I don't know, no...She's.. Down there, in the attic, I don't know what happened, please go help her!

Loads of tears would run down her cheeks as she said that, with noticeable anxiety and terror.

I entered in a state of panic hearing those unfortunate words, I felt the emotion in her response, it was a real case of suicide. Mister Marcus would rapidly rush to the scene, down the attic, while I stood there, paralyzed by the shock, while then, I saw the other students following Marcus, and others comforting the petrified girl. I decided to go to the scene when I heard the loud screams of students, and when Mister Marcus rushed them out of the room, I saw the terror on their faces, the disgust and pain, I had to see what happened. When arriving, I looked down the stairs, a few feet apart. I saw the girl, with pale white skin,  and a dead expression, hanging from the stairs, with a rope tied tightly around her neck, she had hung herself. 

I looked back to the students and the teachers to watch their reactions, they were all the same face of terror and sadness, Marcus then tried to comfort me gently pushing me out of the room.

-Miss Allen... Do you... Do you feel well?

He struggled to get his words out, he didn't exactly know what to say to me. So I responded with honesty

-I'm troubled...Marcus, I'm not feeling well.

 His face was very pale as I said that, he struggled to remain calm. Meanwhile, all the teachers would proceed to send the students to their bedrooms and block the place where the hanging corpse was, we all went to the teacher's room and Ms. Fitz, the principal made emergency phone calls and contacted the parents of the deceased girl, trying to hold back her tears while the others were trying to calm down.

I started to wonder that, since I got here when I joined this school, I had perceived there was something sketchy about this place, something unknown and dangerous, but I didn't expect an event like that would happen this soon.Why did she kill herself? Why her? Did I have something to do with it? We don't know...yet.

But it wouldn't be the last odd occurrence that would happen in this strange School.