'On that day, ten other people and I went to Hoimoly Town to have our dinner. By the time we finished eating and chatting, it was already 12 midnight. There were no hotels near the restaurant, only a very very huge and old house. We were forced to stay in that creepy house.'
'So, was that house inhabited?'
'I was knocking on the door for five minutes, but no one answered. We thought there was no one in the house and the door wasn't locked. As we open the door , there were crickets chirping and the house was full of cobweb and dust. There were at least fifteen bedrooms in the house. So, each of us took one room.'
'Weren't you scared?'
'We were too tired to bother about that. I was pretty lucky that my room was not that dirty. I put down my bag and lay down on the bed. Although I was very tired but I couldn't sleep. The wind was howling outside and the rain started splashing against the window. As I looked out the window, I saw a shadow of a man running towards the library. I had an extremely strange feeling that something bad was going to happen. Suddenly, I heard a scream from the library.'
'Was it a scream of a man or a woman?'
'It was a scream of a terrified woman. I went to my friends' room adjacent to mine to wake them up. But they were all sleeping like a dead people. So I decided to investigate on my own. I went back to my room, took a torch light out of my bag and cautiously walked towards the library.'
'Was the light on?'
'Yes. But the lamp kept blinking. I took my torch light in case the light went off.'
'Okay. Please continue.'
'The library door was half open. The library was quite dark and full of book shelves. As I pushed the door open and went in, I heard some footsteps running towards the other door. There are two doors in the library you see. I ran towards the other door to see who it was. But I stopped when I saw a dead body lying on the floor next to the bookshelf.'
'So did you see who it was?'
'No. I walked slowly and carefully towards the other door this time. When I was about to open the door a man knocked me on the head and I was unconscious. By the time I was awake, I was right beside the dead body with a pool of blood. The knife was still on the dead body's chest.'
'Was the man still there?'
'No, he was already gone when I was awake.'
'Okay.'
Adeline Fong
14 years old
SMK Damansara Jaya
Nov 2010
