[Story in a Dream] Lady in Red

Chapter 1: The Appearance

“One day, a lady in red was going to a party with her friends. There, they are dancing and having their time of their lives. A friend of her barrowed her phone as she goes to the dance floor, then a guy came near her and asked her to dance with her. As the music piped down to a romantic rhythm, they danced like it’s their night. The boy asked the girl to go with him for a little walk, as hopeless romantic as she can be, she accepted his invitation. Before she walks with the guy, the lady in red gone back to where her friends were and grabbed her phone with her and put it in her purse. As they walked below the bright blue moon, replying sweet talks, the lady in red looked for her phone in her purse to know what time is it. She couldn’t find her phone inside her purse as she looked for it, and as she looked back at the guy with her, there it is, on the palm of the guy, her phone as the guy stares at her with a horrifying and menacing look. Of course, the lady in red was scared as she sees the sudden change of mood. The guy whistled, informing his buddies that are hiding somewhere, telling them that the target is here. About 6 guys, with desperate and perverted faces, walked in and cornered the lady in red; she trembled in fear as these people held her still. She was raped twice each person and after that, they beaten her to death. With tattered clothes, blood and bruises covering her skin as she took a few more breaths, cursing everything in this world, she will come back and let everyone feel the pain she suffered. Slowly, one by one, all the people that raped her died!” Bart said,

“How did they die?” Anthony asked,

“Who knows?!” Bart replied,

“Don’t tell me it’s because of the lady in red? This story is too cliché.” John said,

“Well, I just heard that story from a friend of mine so don’t blame me for its “cliché”-ness!” Bart replied,

“Ok! Ok! Enough with this scary story, somehow it gives me the chills.” Ken said,

“Yeah, let’s just go back and answer these fucked up problems, look, this beams and trusses are scarier than that urban legend and all!” Jay said,

“Yeah, we should” Bart replied.

Bart and his friends are engineering students, trying their luck to pass hard subjects; they’re now trying to study as a group in Bart’s house in the terrace but the so called “Group Study” is somehow ineffective for they kept on getting distracted to things like urban legends.

“Dude, it’s late already, I think I need to go now” John said,

“Yeah me too” Jay said also,

“But we haven’t even solved anything yet!” Anthony exclaimed.

Everyone, except for Bart, stared at Anthony like they are telling him that they have parents waiting for them at their respective homes.

“*sigh*, fine! Let’s just stop for now, we will continue this session next time, hopefully let’s not get distracted the next time we do this kind of group study.” Anthony said,

“Ok!” everyone replied,

“We need to go now Bart!” everyone said,

“Ok! Be careful and don’t let the lady in red get you guys” Bart jokingly teased them,

“Oh come on Bart, don’t scare us like that!” Ken exclaimed,

“Ah! What a scaredy cat you are Ken.” Jay said,

“See you guys.” Bart said,

As their voices slowly turned into whisper, Bart immediately gone inside to his room and dropped his books and pens to the floor, Bart then hastily lay down on bed and slowly closed his eyes as he slowly took his slumber. He woke up, doing his daily routine and head to school afterwards. When he entered school, He heard murmurs and rumors around but he didn’t really mind them, so he immediately gone to where his first class of the day is.