TRUE STORIES

HOTEL

Such a beautiful industrial designing. Soft neutral colors are what made Coshier Hotel beautiful and relaxing. I glanced around the lounge trying to take in every moment of my stay here. The smell of fresh wood was just amazing. I sank more into the sofa since no one seemed to be around.

Until Terence came into the area chatting loudly with his twin. I was just the third wheel here. I have no idea why I was even needed here in the first place. But feeling this reward around me. I was fine with anything right then.

'Maybe we should switch? You do the talking for both of us. We will change clothes or something' Terence was saying.

'If you both are planning to cheat on your first ever interview, I'm going to tell everyone about it' I said smiling at them as they got nearer.

'Oh you won't' Terence scoffed.

'Oh I will' I said cartoonish like with a heavy accent.

'You don't know my feelings right now. I'm so nervous. Look at me' Terence showed his hands.

I squinted not knowing what he had in his hands.

'It's shaking!' he pointed out beadily.

'Ah!' I snapped my fingers in realization. 'Well that's good too. To be nervous just a little'

They both sighed and sat down. This wasn't their official job though. They just wanted to gain experience in hotel management. Just then, the elevator door opened and came out a tall woman. She looked at us and beamed happily 'there you are boys' she walked towards us. Her heels clicking loudly on the marbled floor.

We all stood up to greet her. She was confused when she saw me but was immediately introduced by my brothers. Knowing that I was their support she got excited.

She led us to another room and this time I had to wait outside. I sat down again on one of those cold sofa. There was a staff cleaning the floor but she had gone when I tried to smile at her.

Not very friendly huh.

I thought to just go out and enjoy the view when I had the chance. Truly the garden was magnificent. There were people nearby, in their own world and chatting away happily. I wish Clara could be with me. She would have been excited to have seen such a beautiful garden.

The hotel courtyard was so that there was a vast area of garden in the middle while the buildings were surrounding. I was at the far left when I witnessed a horrible incident.

A man.

He was at the top of the balcony staring down.

'Whoa wait wait' I gasped and began running. Before I could even reach the middle, he jumped down. That made me run even faster than before.

Since there was the garden I didn't see him land. But I knew the scene would be bad. Still I went there and to my astonishment.

Found nothing there. I looked around carefully. Maybe this was the wrong place? I glanced around. A couple was looking at me. They were just sitting on the bench in front of the place where the man had fell down.

'Umm excuse me' I ran up to the couple. 'Sorry to disturb you but have you seen a man? He jumped from there. I saw him but now he...is gone. Was he injured?' I asked still finding it hard to breath.

They both looked at each other and said 'so you have seen him too?'

'Yes?' I got confused. 'Where is he? I don't think he would have survived such a fall' it was the fifth floor after all.

'Rumors say that the man that lived in that room, he jumped to his death after he had raped one staff member' the blonde said.

'What? Why did he?' I was curious suddenly. Why would he jump to his death right after raping her? I never heard such a story before.

'And the girl also disappeared right after his death. No one found or ever heard about her' they both stood up 'so creepy'

Later at night I was eating a big plate of Mi Goreng when Travis also sat with a fork to eat from the other side of my plate.

'Something weird happened today' he began.

'Hmhm?'

Terence and Aron also came near the counter and took a fork. I showed them another plate full of stir fried noodles made by me. As we all began to dig in. Travis began 'while we were on tour. There was this certain room' he mused 'wait which room though?' he looked at Terence for help.

'Fifth floor. I don't remember the room but fifth floor' he shrugged.

'Yeah well which ever room it was' Travis went back to eating 'we heard a woman shouting for help. She was crying and seemed like someone was hurting her. The door was closed so we didn't see anything. When we tried to tell Miss Lane about the cries, she ignored us and went on'

'Which was totally weird cox we all must have heard cries inside the room' Terence added.

'There came this cleaning lady and asked us if we wanted to open the door'

'That was also the weirdest thing ever because why would she suddenly ask that when she never was there before to hear it?' Terence added beadily looking at us.

'She must have heard it too?' Aron asked.

'No... she wasn't there with us' Travis shook his head 'and when she opened the door. We went inside to see emptiness. There wasn't any furniture or anything in that room. Nothing'

'We came outside but the staff was gone. Instead Miss Lane came asking why we stopped there. And when we turned back' Terence paused.

We all looked at him waiting for the suspense to drop.

'The door was closed. And...locked...'

'Do you know why?' I asked.

'What do you mean why?' Travis asked confused.

I told them what happened with me. And the story about the woman.

'F**' Terence took a deep breath and let it out.

'The mystery here is' I continued 'where is the woman??'

'She still lives to show what happened to her?' Aron finished the sentence with a riddling question mark.