Serendipity Highschool

The old wooden desk trembled as I piled up the paperwork’s together, stacking it up irregularly. They could have just helped me in this work. It’s not like I’m the only active student body officer; they were just lazy to handle these all. At first, I thought that I can handle this tower of typewritten papers, but I gave up eventually. The sun has already set. The night was fast approaching. Rumors said that once the night fell, creepy things will start to unfold of this very ironic school.

Not that I’m scared or anything, I just want to avoid experiencing those, if they were actually true; it’s scariness the other way around, though. The ambient light shone in this room where I was working on, and out of all rooms in this school, this is the only one lit. The outsides of the room, as well as the grounds, were starkly dark. The benighted sky was already in presence, and I can’t stop myself from shaking.

I will just finish this in the morning, I thought to myself. I scurried my hands to fetch my school supplies scattered across the desk. My feet were visibly shaking. I wasn’t feeling like this before. It was just the eeriness dense upped when the night blanketed this rumor-stricken school.

An inscrutable noise sounded outside the room…

I paused for a while, trying hard to comprehend what had just happened. Just some wild cats, maybe? I deprived the scariest thought I could think of. They only happen in fiction, after all. I hastily picked up the remains of my things. I caught glance of a pink pen with a bunny decorations to it. I picked it up while showing a faint smile on my face, suggesting that I suddenly forgot for a fraction of time what situation I was in.

But, the noise was real. It was steps. Footsteps.

I was caught off guard. I hurled myself and sat on the weak wooden desk. I withdrew my position and shifted it as many as I can imagine. Sweat was really now streaming down my face, even though it was cringing cold. Suddenly, I felt the pen escaped from my grip. It rolled, and rolled, and rolled, until it passes through the opening under the door. Once it got out, I heard its rolling stopped.

The silence was deadly. I would scream for help, but I found myself unable to do so. I felt my body just suddenly paralyzed its own. I know my pupils were now dilated; I was deeply staring at the door, waiting for another horrific movement or sound. Even if the lights were still on, I felt like the shadows were crowding me, giving me no chance of escape.

A noise of a pen being picked continued…

I gulped air. The person might do something creepy to me. I clenched my fist, ready for an attack in case of something happened. I tightened my grip of my clothes. I urge not to let my tears fall, making sure I was meeting the stranger with a brave face. The table was affected by my rigorous tremble. Before I knew it, the mountain of papers fell onto the floor.

The sound of papers being dropped from the floor rebounded heavily inside the room. I swear I could have died. In the corner of my eye, I saw the door knob being slowly turned.

My trembling became more intense as ever. I was now hyperventilating. I kept my head faced down. Not wanting to see him, as I let my tears fall down like a heavy downpour. I gulped in air too many times, and I was breathing wildly, gasping while clutching my chest.

The door was unlocked.

“Catherine?” a familiar voice sounded. I held my head up, and saw the familiar figure of Tony.

“Thank goodness.” I released my grip of my chest, and relaxed my once-stiff body. The feeling of acknowledging Tony as the noise was a big relief.

“I swore I saw two persons here.” Tony left out a destructive testimony, which shook me. “I saw two silhouettes while I was at the gate, although the other one was odd enough; he wasn’t budging… and was too slender. Well, I thought of you, so I came …”

I stood up, and clutched Tony’s arm. His expression was flurried by the sudden movement. “There was only me her in the room. All alone.”

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So, how did it go? First time trying out Horror. Well, I'll try to compensate in the next chapters if it didn't give you a little throb.