Room No.13

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"Room No. 13"

She said,"The maid has already cleaned the room. Here are your keys." She handed me the keys and I started rushing towards the hostel building. I passed through several rooms in which a number of students were sitting. I noticed something strange. All of them were just sitting. If I would have been at their place, I would have played or at least just read something. But they were just sitting like dead dolls. This school was really strange. No one even smiled. I was going upstairs and the stairs weren't seeming to end. 

I finally reached the sixth floor and there I saw a number of rooms. There were ten rooms on one floor. The sixth floor had ten rooms, 11 to 20. I was panting heavily as I climbed so many stairs. After a bit of breathing, I started checking the room numbers. At the right end of the floor, I found it. I was so relieved. I looked over at the door of the room. Suddenly, a rotting dead smell took control of my nose. But suddenly, it vanished. I thought it was just a misconception. Nothing was there. I adjusted the key and turned it. I held the door knob and turned it but it won't open. I looked at the door and I saw something that was written on it and it was red. I read Go back! I realized that it was written with blood.I rubbed my eyes and it was gone. I thought to myself Am I dreaming? I think I didn't sleep well at night. 

"Surely, you slept."

I heard a voice. I didn't know who it was. I looked here and there. No one was there. Was I just dreaming or someone was really there? I didn't know myself. I ignored it again.

 I tried to open the door again but all in vain. That damn door knob was not twisting a little. Finally, it turned and opened. A soon as I entered my room a gust of wind brushed over my face and some dark and  black shadows started hovering round me. But immediately they disappeared. I was totally confused and scared as well. From the moment I entered this academy, strange things started to happen. The sadness of this place sent chills through my spine and made me sad as well. The grim expression on the student' face haunted me. All of them were like some dead bodies, I thought. They were emotionless. Emotionless like a lifeless thing. That made me to discover this place even more. Ryan was the only one who talked to me. The others didn't even bother to take a glance on me.

"That receptionist lied to me! This room is a complete mess!"I said with horror as I saw the messy room.

I thought that the maid would have cleaned it already but I was wrong. She didn't even trouble to do a little dusting. I kept my bags on the dusty floor. I started exploring my room. I went towards the dusty window to stare outside. On the window sill, I found a lash of blood. Someone must had have hurt him or her by the broken glass. I thought to myself as I saw the broken glass of the window. I looked outside and stared at the sad life. It was not a beautiful sight. Everything seemed to be black in color just as it is on someone's funeral ceremony. 

After a while, I started walking towards the bed. It was so much dusty. I stared at the ceiling and looked down. My eyes widened and I looked up again. Three drops of blood fell on my face as I saw a broken head without a body tied up to the fan. It was female head and its eyes were wide open as if it was going to kill me right now. I started trembling with fear. My body turned numb, I didn't know what to do. I screamed my lungs out. I trembled with fear and rushed towards the door. But it shut with a great voice. 

I shouted and patted at the door with all my force," Somebody help! Get me outta here!!"

But nobody came. I rushed inside the bathroom and as soon as I opened the door two dead bloody hands dangled at the door of the bathroom and fell over my head. Tears started rolling down my cheeks. I came out of the bathroom and found the legs and the bloody body lying on the floor. It was the body of the maid. I guessed it from the bloody clothes of the body. But who would have killed her. I screamed again wishing someone would hear me. I slammed the door but it won't open. I tried so hard that my hands started bleeding. I thought to go and jump out of the window but I backed off as it meant to die. I would not remain alive if I jumped off from the sixth floor of the hostel building. 

I sat down dumbfounded. I sat under the study table and held my knees with my hands. I started screaming,"Someone hear me! I am in pain! Get me outta here!!" 

But there was no response. All I could hear were some deadly sounds of someone saying

"I told you to back off! I told you not to come in this room!"

I was soaked in sweat. I realized that it was the same sound I heard before. The sound which I heard when I was trying to open the door knob. I squeezed myself more under the table, in a way to hide myself from whosoever it was. I thought about my granny. I thought about my parents. I thought about Ryan. Yes Ryan! I thought that he would come and save me. But I just met him in the morning. We just met each other and that was all. We were not good friends or best friends. 

Suddenly, I heard something that made me to come out of my thoughts. It was a knock on the door. Hope lit up in my heart as I heard someone saying,"Isabella! Open the door!"

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