The Secret Behind the Closed Door

Chapter Eight

*Grammatical errors up ahead! (I think)
Enjoy! :D

{Day 5, Friday}

"I'm just following orders, so you're still my friend, don't worry! You're my friend 'till the very end, Tash."

Tash didn't even expect this to happen, she thought that Julia was really her friend since she was very nice to her and supported her.

She begged as she slowly sat down the floor, "Julia, it doesn't have to be this way! Let's just talk this out like friends!"

Julia got closer to her and pointed the knife on her face, "This is for the best."

Tash didn't have any choice but to accept her painful death, "This is it...I guess this is the end." she said to herself. 

When Julia was about to stab Tash, a knife suddenly pierced through her chest. She dropped the knife and fell down bleeding. "No.." she groaned.

Tash thought that she was about to die, but not until Victoria showed up and saved her life. She stabbed Julia from the back and pulled out the knife with all her strength. Then she reached her hand for Tash and said "Come with me! We're escaping!" Tash grabbed her hand, stood up and looked back at Julia one last time.

"I'm sorry." Tash spoke as she and Victoria both ran away together, leaving their former friend, Julia behind who was slowly bleeding to death.

Meanwhile, while Julia was about to die. A man appeared in the shadows, and went towards the girl.

Julia muttered, "D..Dad...I'm sorry. I let my guard down."

"It's gonna be alright...You did your best, sweetheart." the man replied with a sad smile on his face. He carried his daughter and added, "You may rest now."

Julia closed her eyes and died. Her father went to the mysterious door and opened it. There, he laid Julia's deceased body down beside the other dead rotting bodies.

"I will make sure they will pay for what they did to you." he whispered and closed the door.

Later on, Tash and Victoria went to the gates of the school. Tash looked around and saw the security guards dead.  They both went towards the gate and found out that it was locked.

"It's locked! How are we gonna get out?!" Victoria panicked.

Tash spoke, "It seemed that someone locked them to prevent people from escaping and entering this school."

"Now what?! how are we gonna find the keys in this huge building?! Plus, it's pointless to call for help since no one can hear us at all!"

While the two were talking to each other, Tash saw the mysterious figure from her nightmares at the distance.

"Run! RUN!" She shouted while pulling Victoria's hand as they both ran away again.

The girls went inside the science laboratory to hide. They locked the doors, and kept quiet. Victoria looked at Tash who was panting and kept staring at the doors, she looked tired after all that running.

Her friend tapped her and asked, "Why did we ran away again? You seemed terrified, did you saw something?"

Tash uttered in fear, "There was a guy..From my nightmares. H-he's here. He's coming for us."

Victoria couldn't understand what was going on in her friend's mind, but one thing's for sure, the guy Tash was talking about might be a serious problem and he's coming for them both.

Meanwhile, they heard someone knocking on the door. They stood up as they trembled in fear, no one had the guts to open it because they thought it might be the killer.

They kept hearing knocks, it didn't stopped until a few minutes later. All they could hear was silence, they were both relieved.

But then, "BANG!" the girls heard a loud thud from the door, it seemed that the killer wanted to knock down the door in order to get in.

"What should we do?!" Victoria murmured while she was trembling in fear.

Tash looked around the science laboratory and found an empty closet. She gestured Victoria to get inside and hide with her.

Victoria rushed inside the closet followed by Tash, they both hid inside until the coast was clear.

Later on, they heard keys rattling and the sound of footsteps. Tash opened the closet door a little and peeked outside. She saw a tall man who was searching inside the science lab. She could barely see his face because of the darkness, all she saw was that the man was wearing a bloody gloves and holding the keys of the school. She was sure that the man was the mysterious figure in her dreams.

The mysterious man stared at the closet and noticed that its door was slightly opened. Little did he knew, Tash and Victoria were hiding inside that closet. Tash slowly backed away from the door and hoped that they wouldn't be caught by the him. The man went towards the closet slowly.

The girls heard that the footsteps getting louder, they were terrified that they could feel their hearts beating like hell. Victoria held Tash's hand, she could feel her friend's hands quivering in fear. They didn't know what to do, they knew death was nearby but they were not ready to face it.

As the man reached out the handle of the closet door, he heard someone from outside screamed. He decided not to continue to open the closet and went outside.

Tash and Victoria heard the footsteps fade away to silence, when Tash was about to leave the closet they heard a woman begging and crying that made her get back inside.

"No...Please! Don't kill me! Have mercy!"

And then, they heard the mysterious man replied with a very familiar voice.

"I lost the ability to show mercy a long time ago."

The voice was very familiar to Tash, but no one came into her mind when she tried to remember it.

They couldn't hear anyone talking after that, instead all they could hear was the sounds of stabbing, screaming and groaning. Then, there was silence.

The girls continued to hide inside the closet for another minute to make sure that the man left.

A minute had passed, Tash and Victoria decided to go out. They went outside the closet and took a peek outside the science laboratory, they didn't saw any man in the hallway instead they saw a woman lying on the floor with no signs of life.

They both sneaked outside and approached the woman.

Victoria mumbled while staring at the dead body "She's our Math teacher and now...She's dead."

"Could it be that the man who was here earlier...Was the killer all along?" Tash asked.

The girls looked at each other's eyes, and Victoria answered hesitantly "Maybe."

She also added, "But I thought it was Julia who did all this since she attempted to kill you."

Tash replied in a very serious tone, "Maybe...She's not the only killer here. Maybe there's more."