Short stories

Story 4 (Niya)

Warning: Can be boring

"Niya!" My friend Shadow runs over to me
"Hey, Shadow."I smile at him
"Follow me for a second." He says nervously " I want to show you something."
"Alright lead the way."
We run around to back of the school.
I froze as I saw the body of a 17 year old girl named Ai.
Shadow looks at me not knowing what to do.
"I-I can help you hide the body." I stutter
"Really?" He grabs the body
"Of course come with me, I know a place." I look around to see if anyone heard our conversation
"Nobody's around let's go."
" Okay." He carries the body carefully in his arms
We jump the fence surrounding the school making sure that we didn't tear our uniforms.
"Down this way." I venture into a forest
"How far is it?" Shadow pushes branches away from his face.
"Not much further." I start running
"You run so fast." His footsteps become louder
"Someone's coming, stay close to me."
I dash into a secret door in a tree and Shadow follows and closes the door.
"Niya what's going?" The terror in his voice rises
"Stay quiet."  I put a finger over his lips
" I know that's someone's here!" A deep male voice yells "Show yourself now!"
Shadow clings to me but stays silent.
"Come down here." I whisper in his in his ear
I pull up a tile of grass quietly to reveal a medium size room underneath.
I climb down a ladder camouflaged into the tree.
He follows me and closes the trap door without a sound.
"We shouldn't be heard here but it's best to still be quiet." I move away from the bottom of the ladder.
A loud bang appears from above and my heart beats fast and I start sweating.
Shadow looks at me more scared than before.
I hide in a corner of the room.
"You can't hide from me!" The voice calls again
Shadow makes sure that he doesn't drop the body.
"Where are we supposed to be going?" He asks me
"A secret garden."I whisper
"What?" He sounds trying not to raise his voice
"A garden." I repeated
A loud clang noise disturbs the moment of silence
"Someone opened the hatch." I say softly "Follow me I know the back way out."
We sneak to the back of the room and I stand on desk pausing for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Shadow asks me
"It's too quiet." I respond
A horrendous roar proves me wrong and a crash of two desk being thrown against each other caused me to instinctively push up the ceiling revealing another room.
"Up here." I whisper to him pulling myself up from the desk.
He follows my lead and puts the ceiling back into place.
"I'm sorry for dragging you into this mess." I grab his shoulder
"It's alright, don't worry about it." He grips the body harder
"Niya, Where are you!?" The male voice screams much louder than the time before
I stay silent and crawl away from the trap door.
"Give me the body and go back to the school." I look in his eyes "It's not safe here."
"I'm not leaving you here alone." He grabs my arm "Lets just bury the body and get out of here."
"Alright." I smile with tears in my eyes
He smiles back at me and without a second leave the tree through a door.
"I know where you are!" The male voice screams as I hear a hatch open
"Run." I dash further into the forest
I run until I lose my breath.
Shadow desperately tries not to drop the girl as we reach a clearing with a small cottage and a garden.
"We're here." I stand still
"Finally." Shadow drops the body to the floor and rubs his arm
"We can bury the body in an open spot in the garden." I grab shovels from behind the cottage
He says nothing but nods at me and grabs the girl again.
We walk over to the garden and start digging.
We dig for about 5 minutes then place the body in the hole.
I breathe heavy then cover the body.
I look over to Shadow.
He looks at the ground taking a minute to breathe.
I take the shovel from his hand and put our shovels back behind the cottage.
"Let's go back, Niya." Shadow says in an uneasy tone
"Are you alright." I ask him
"Who was that guy?" He grabs my hand
" I-It's complicated." I rub the back of my neck nervous
"How about we forget about him and just get back to school." He smiles at me
"Yeah." We run through the forest carefully back to school