The ghost of the old academy building

“Alright, is everyone ready!”

““READY SIR!!!””

Look at these dweebs psyching themselves up, usually I’d laugh it off. What’s with me all of the sudden-

I got a bad feeling about this. What if the old school house actually is haunted?

Not this again, I swear that guy’s words keep coming back to me! Why should I care about what he has to say? Today is about me and my friend having a good time. I thought like that as I turned my head to see Stacy, only to be shocked to see her current self. Stacy looked a bit tense and nervous, this is all that guy’s fault! If only he never spoke to us, then Stacy wouldn’t look like this and I wouldn’t-Nope! I’m not gonna give this guy any more headspace than he already has.

“Stacy it’s gonna be fine, let’s go and have some fun alright?”

“Nina…”

Stacy, why do you look like you’re trying to reassure me. Don’t you know I hate it when you look like that. As I thought this, the voice of the occult club president reached our ears.

“Hey ladies, are you ready for the exploration!”

“Yes nerd, we’ll be right there!”

I looked at Stacy, she’s still a bit hesitant, but now there’s no more time for second guessing.

“Nina, maybe we shou-”

“Let’s go!”

I grabbed Stacy’s hand with a smile before she could finish her response, it's all just a bunch of stupid superstitions anyway. What’s the worse that can happen?

****

“Well here it is! The antiquity of Silver Seal Academy, the old academy building!”

There it stood, it was an abandoned building. If it wasn’t for the slight cracks in the stone walls and the broken windows, you would probably assume the building was still open. Thanks to the research between the club president and his cronies, we were able to slip past the security and come here. It’s about 4:45pm right now, I hope this doesn’t take long. At the moment one of the president’s cronies, a guy with no redeeming qualities, is picking the lock to the old school building. Stacy started to get worried, breaking and entering is a felony afterall. Noticing Stacy’s fear and getting anxious myself, I question the club president about how long this was all gonna take.

“Can’t your guy move any faster!”

“Please stay quiet, you don’t want to lure the guards ove-”

“WE WOULDN’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANY GUARDS IF YOU’D JUST-”

Before I could finish, the sound of something clicking echoed between us.

“There we go, it’s unlocked.”

The guy who picked the lock threw his hands up happily, well I guess that solves one problem. Stacy seemed to be spacing out, I gave her a light tap on the shoulder and we shuffled inside. The occult club seemed to be enjoying every minute of this, I’m bored though, sheesh at this rate I hope something paranormal happens. I looked over at Stacy, she was shivering all over. Is she scared? Oh I just got a fun idea! I tip toe over to Stacy and poke her lower back, she immediately jumped out like a spider landed on her.

“Hehe! That was totally worth it!”

“Nina! You scared me, have you any idea how tense I feel!”

Calm down Stacy I was just-Wait, Stacy looks kinda serious. Is everything alright?

“I don’t know why, but my body feels the strangest chill all of the sudden. We shouldn’t be here, something is wrong!”

Stacy, why do you sound like that? You’re starting to creep me out, I mean we’ve got in safely so what the worse that can happen? As I thought this, I noticed the club president staring at us intently.

“Eek! You Perv, why are you starring at us like that!”

“As I thought, Stacy seems to have sensitivity to the paranormal! Meaning her condition let’s us know that something ghastly is close by!”

No way, but if that’s the case that would mean Stacy can sense ghost. Meaning the chills she’s getting are-

*Rattle rattle*

I started hearing a rattling sound. It wasn’t from the president, it couldn’t have been Stacy, and the other crony they brought along(a girl with glasses) was busy taking notes. I looked to my left to see that lock picking guy again, this time he seemed to be picking the lock to the old gymnasium. The lock was holding some rusted chains in place, I’m surprised those chains are still holding strong. I looked over at Stacy only to see panic written on her face, but before I could talk to her I heard the president arguing with the lock picker.

“Hey, what do you think you’re doing! We all agreed to leave things in place and try not to touch anything!”

“I don’t know why, but something is surging within me! It’s telling me to undo these chains!”

What is this, some kind of cheesy TV show? As I thought that Stacy started trembling fiercely, is she okay!?!

“Stacy what’s wrong?”

“There’s something in there, we need to leave now!”

“Wha-”

“I SAID WE NEED TO LEAVE!”

Stacy never yelled at me like that before, what’s going on? A second after she yelled at me, the chains on the gymnasium door fell to the floor. For some odd reason the lock picker lost that crazy look in his eyes and looked perplexed.

“Uh, is everything alright? Wait, why am I holding these chains!?!”

“You unlocked them, you don’t remember?”

“No, I don’t actually, last thing I remember was entering the building and walking with you guys.”

We’ve been in here for five minutes and you only remember entering, no way was this guy possessed. Before i could think further, Stacy grabbed my hand and pulled me away from those guys.

“Stacy, what are you-”

“We got to run, it’s coming!”

What do you mean by it’s coming? As we ran the president and his group caught up to us, that’s when the strangest thing happened. I could’ve sworn I heard the sound of a door being slammed open and chains being rattled wildly.

****

We decided to take a break in one of the old bathrooms, I can’t believe this place is actually haunted. Stacy probably just saved our lives a few minutes ago, as for the lock picker he apologized. We can’t really blame him since he was probably possessed, but that didn’t stop the president from chewing him out. Stacy looks better, but still…

“Hey Nina, are you alright?”

“Huh?”

“I grabbed your arm hard a bit earlier, do you feel better?”

I looked at my arm and remembered Stacy frantically pulling me to safety. I never thought I’d say this, but maybe that guy was-

“Oh, how are you ladies doing?”

The president walked over to us with a creepy smirk on his face, why does he look stranger than he usually does? The president walked over to one of the old sinks and turns one of the faucets.

“Might I interest you ladies in a refreshing drink?”

Refreshing drink? From an old rundown sink? No thanks!

“Hehe…”

“What’s so funny Stacy?”

“He meant it as a pun.”

Stacy you have the weirdest sense of humor, then again at least my mood feels lighter. The president blinked for a moment then immediately started looking around frantically.

“Uh, are you good prez?”

“I was just making sure we were in the same place, I think they just got me!”

I froze for a moment, the prez got possessed too! Then this bathroom isn’t safe either, we need to leave like right now! Everyone hurried out before anything-

*Drip…drip*

What? Isn’t that the sound of water? No, the sinks shouldn’t be able to work in an old building like this. Don’t tell me-

“Nina focus!”

I looked over to see Stacy, the look on her face was more serious than anything I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what came over me, but I immediately heeded her words and focused on the task at hand.

****

“*Huff Huff* Geez if it’s not one thing it’s another, hey dweebs what do you have to say for yourselves!”

“Our apologies ladies, it appears we’ve placed you in harm's way.”

“Please don’t worry yourself Matthew, you were only trying to entertain us. If we have to blame anyone then it would have to be ourselves for joining.”

Matthew, who’s that? He’s probably no one important, still Stacy really is too sweet. It’s the president’s fault for us being in this mess but despite that she’s so humble. Besides, how are we to blame for any of this? While I thought that, the glasses girl from the occult club returned with a cheerful expression.

“No need to frown you guys, even this mirror here knows how to stay in peak condition.”

“You have a point, this is a pretty nice mirror!”

I started posing in front of the mirror, but as if it were some cartoon it cracked in front of me. Well screw you too, you stupid mirror! While cursing the mirror inside my head, I couldn’t help but notice Stacy’s expression. I asked her what was wrong, only for her answer to startle me.

“Nina there’s something off about that mirror!”

“What are you talking about?”

“Look at it.”

I looked back at the mirror and froze, it was fixed back to normal. How is this possible it was-

*Crack*

Once again the mirror cracked to pieces, some of the glass pieces hitting the floor. What is this, one of the academy's seven wonders? Before I could ponder further, the president said something about finding “it” and ushered us to follow him. Still curious about that mirror, I decided to look back. Only to see that the mirror was rebuilt again.

****

Here we are, at the president’s request, we followed him all the way to this strange classroom. For some reason him and his cronies seem to be infatuated with this place. The lock picker is taking photos with a polaroid camera, the glasses girl is scribbling notes furiously, and the president is chuckling to himself like they made the discovery of a lifetime. Me and Stacy on the other hand feel outta place, I just wanna go home now. Out of curiosity, and possibly wanted some respite from the paranormal, I spoke to the glasses girl about the mirror she brought us. However, when I asked her she seemed surprised saying she never brought us a mirror. What the heck, does that mean she got possessed back there! Am I cursed now!

I decided to look around the room a bit, maybe I’ll find something to get my mind off all the weird stuff that’s happening. That’s when I noticed the blackboard, and noticed there was a weird heart drawn on it. Inside the heart was a J&C, I can’t believe those occult nerds would do something like this. This building is our antiquity, show some respect why don’t ya’! I found myself annoyed, these guys brought us along only to pull something cheesy like this. I don’t know what came over me, I picked up the eraser and erased the heart. I smiled seeing the damn thing gone, however I glanced to my left to see another heart there with the same nonsense inside. I did the same thing I did before, I erased it again. Out of nowhere another heart appeared, and another one. I kept on erasing, but it felt strange. I wanted to stop after a while, but my arms compelled me to keep going. What is this? It’s like I’m losing myself, how long have I been-

“Nina, what are you doing!”

Stacy snapped me out of my trance, however for some reason everyone was watching me. Wait, what was doing again? I looked next to me to see a blackboard with a giant heart on it, with a big J&C written inside of it. Oh yeah I was erasing it! I started trying to erase the J&C, but right before I could start I could hear everyone telling me to stop. I didn’t let that deter me, and erased it anyway. Now this is what I call-

“How dare you…”

Huh what was that? I looked around only to see everyone look terrified, I turned to the board and froze. The chalk marks on the board were replaced with blood stains, I looked at the eraser in my hands. It was covered in blood, I couldn’t help but scream as I threw the eraser down onto the floor. What the hell is this! Why was-

“HOW DARE YOU!!!”

I froze again, we all did. That voice didn’t belong to any of us, that’s when I turned my head to see a girl standing beside me. I jumped back and ran towards the group, once I got close enough Stacy pulled me into a hug. For some reason the prez is laughing, has this loser gone insane!

“She’s real, SHE’S ACTUALLY REAL!”

What do you mean she’s real, you know who this is! As if he heard my thoughts, the president answered my question.

“The ghost of the old academy building, it’s you isn’t it!”