Thread: Night School (Rieo Deal & I)

It all started with a bang. A loud noise, unusual for this time of night, shook awake a young man who had nodded off in the classroom of what appeared to be a night school session. It was bad enough that his parents forced him to come here at this miserable hour night after night due to his lack of good grades, but he couldn't even take a nap due to some stupid annoyance bothering him every other minute. He sat up a bit to look around, noticing that the other students, including the teacher, were doing the same thing. Whatever that sound was, it was loud and it was close. Stay here a moment, the teacher said as he walked out of the classroom to investigate the noise. After some time, he returned with no answer and no worries as to the source of such a loud noise. Must have been some pranksters, the young man mumbled to himself as he used this opprotunity to get some actual work done to make it seem like he wasn't a complete slacker. He didn't give the matter a second thought until the next night when he was back at school. As usual, he was napping, his body unable to cope with having to stay up this late. This time, however, the teacher was the one to wake him from his stupor. Wake up Ken! he snapped, kicking the desk the young man was sitting at, causing him to stir and moan. If you weren't such a slacker, you would have the privelage of sleeping at home this time of night. Right now though, you're here and you have some studying to do. Ken was really starting to get annoyed with this guy. If only someone or something could shut him up... BANG It was that loud noise again, the same one that was heard last night, only it sounded much closer this time. The teacher, in his confidence, decided to once again investigate, feeling that he would be able to catch whoever was screwing around in the halls so late at night. As he left the room, no one would realize that it would be the last time anyone would see that teacher again. After about an hour, there was some murmuring between the other students, perhaps a little nervous that the teacher had not come back yet. This apprehension was not lost on Ken, who decided to investigate the matter himself. It wasn't that he was worried about the teacher or anything. It was more a matter of curiosity. Slowly, he walked out into the halls which had mysteriously gone dark, the only light coming from the moon which shone in the windows. This was a little odd to the young man who slowly inched his way through the darkness to one of the doors leading outside. He pushed down on the handle expecting it to open, only it didn't. It certainly felt like the door was unlocked, so why wasn't it budging? Ken wouldn't have time to worry about such things as something far more mysterious and terrifying reached his ears. It was a scream. Not just any scream, but a blood curdling scream the likes of which could only come from someone being murdered. His heart began to race very quickly and the hair on his arms stood on end. This had to be some kind of bad joke being played here. And while he was eager to get the hell out of this twisted prank already, something urged him to move towards the sound he heard. Perhaps it was more curiosity, he didn't know, but whatever the case, he began to move forward again, only at a much slower pace. As he did, he began to hear things, whispers, echoes, a breath at the back of his neck. Just what the hell was going on around here?