Katherine's Journal

I don't know if I should be documenting this event…. But I wanted to come light.

**Day 1**

I was spending time with my group of friends at a café, we were on break and the university wanted to let us have fun for Halloween, so we got to spend time together without having to worry about college work.

We were just talking and gossiping about boys and clothing and such. You know, the normal girl stuff.

During our conversation, Amanda came up with a cool idea to spend Halloween at that abandoned University in the forest. Obviously, most of us are against it because of the rumors about it being haunted and many people went missing in that university.

But Amanda reassured us that it’s nothing more than just some silly rumors the locals tell us to keep trespassers away from the place. “Maybe they were hiding something valuable in that university?”  Amanda suggested with a joke look on her face.

We were all hesitant about all of this, so we told Amanda to give us some time to think about this. We promised her that we will tell her our decisions before Halloween night.

She agrees and we all went our separate ways. I had a strange feeling about all of this.

**Day 2**

I was really reluctant to go to that abandoned university, not because I was scared, believe me. It was because it reminded me about Gloria.

Gloria was our classmate during our high school years, but I wouldn't say we were friends. In fact, it was the complete opposite. Amanda, the others and I were her bullies.

Her small weak body and the fact she admitted to be a lesbian gave us reasons to bully her, tormented her, and making her life miserable. Gloria wanted to fight back, I know because she had the look of determination and anger in her eyes when we bullied her.

It went like that for 3 years, until Gloria had committed suicide at the Lake. That made all of us stop bullying and felt the pang of guilt. Gloria’s family blamed us for pushing her to the edge of suicide, but none of us said anything to defend ourselves, we were to blame for what we did to her.

But ever since the event, it felt like we were being watched by something. Was it my imagination?  I hoped so.

**Day of the Halloween Night**

It wasn’t surprising, but we all agreed to go to the abandoned university. But we all agreed to only go in there for a few hours. The building itself was already terrifying, let alone the inside of it. It’s probably enough for someone to shit their pants from fear.

As we went inside the building, the inside of the university was just like any abandoned places. Filled with cobwebs, moss and dusts, along with many dubrish from parts of the walls and ceilings. It looked like no one had stepped foot in here for decades.

We decide to split into three groups. My group is with Amanda, Natasha and Emily. We went to explore the bottom floor while the others are checking the upper floors. The floor we were in was a bunch of different classes and a cafeteria, which wasn’t too surprising.

While we were exploring, we felt someone was watching us from somewhere but we can’t pinpoint where it is. The sense of anxiety and paranoia was so much that it made all of us freeze in our place.

We begged Amanda to find the others and leave this place, but before she could say a word out of her mouth. We heard a terrified scream from one of the groups on the upper floor , along with screams of pleading and agony.

The locals were right, this place was not meant to be explored and we broke that rule by coming here for some stuppid scaring.

Natasha was so terrified that she turned around and tried to run away, but was stopped by someone in the hallway. We can’t see the person clearly because of the lack of lights in this place, but we can tell they had a huge body like muscular men. The figure grabbed Natasha by her neck and they ripped her head from her body effortlessly.

We all screamed and ran away from the figure, we tried to hide in one of the empty classes and we stood silent as he hear the murder walking pass by the class.

Emily started arguing with Amanda for dragging all of us into this mess, but the argument didn’t last long as we watched Emily getting pulled up from the class window. We tried to pull her back but the strength was too much and Emily got dragged out from the classroom. We backed away from the window as Amanda and I watched Emily getting lifted up in the air like weight lifting and then get her back broken by a single thigh.

The figure glanced their direction at us, and it wasn’t long for the murder to go through the window and walking towards us. We both begged for the murder to not kill us, even though it was hopeless in this situation, but as they stood still in front of us, looking down at us like an insect.

What we thought was for the murder to kill us, instead, they said something, that shocked the both of us. With just one sentence, the murder said : “What a pleasant surprise to see my two bullies in this place”

As the murder said those words, the whole world felt like it had freeze. There was only one person that Amanda and I had bullied, and that was Gloria.

“G-Gloria? I-Is that you?” I asked hesitantly, despite knowing the answer.

The person laughed and I can tell they were glaring down at us, “Yes, it is me. The weak little girl who you both tormented for 3 fucking years” .

It was shocking to see her like this, she was extremely tall, around 6 feet tall or more. On top of that, she looks so much different from the Gloria we used to know. She doesn’t look human anymore.

“W-we’re so sorry for bullying you! Please just spare us!” Amanda begged with tears in her eyes.

Gloria chuckled as if it was a joke to her but then that laugh turned into a glare with hatred in her eye, “Did you really think your abuse was the cause of my death?  Idiots, that was never the reason why i had died”

Gloria bent down to our height and grabbed Amanda’s cheek, forcing her to look at the giant. “My death was your parents fault, wasn’t it, Amanda?”  Gloria grinned with amusement as she looked at Amanda’s horrified face. I was confused, how was Amanda’s parents the fault of Gloria’s death?

“Let me tell you, Amanda’s parents were on their way back home with their little daughter in their very expensive car. When they had accidentally ran over a weak little girl that was crossing the street during a red light, not wanting to ruin their reputation, the family took the girl’s body and threw it in the lake. And unfortunately, there were no surveillance cameras during the accident, why?  Because Amanda’s parents had paid someone to delete the footage of the accident. This little brat had lied to her own friends that she doesn’t know anything without any punishments for what her and her family had done to me”  Gloria hissed at the last sentence as she gripped onto Amanda’s neck.

I was shocked but also mad at Amanda, I glanced at her and said “You killed her?! You idiotic bitch! Now look what you had dragged all of us into!”. There was nothing in the words of emotions at how I felt about all of this, being slapped in the face about the truth of Gloria’s death by the very same person in front of us. Being backstabbed by your own supposed best friend. Or the fact we’re going to die by the hands of the person who was supposed to be dead.

Gloria didn’t say anything else as she snapped Amanda’s neck and let her lifeless body collapse on the floor. I closed my eyes, ready for her to kill me next but she didn’t.

“I will give you two choices, one, I won't kill you and I will let you live your life but under the conditions that you must tell everyone the truth about my death and Never tell anyone that i’m still alive. Or…. you can choose to die by my hands”  Gloria looked at me with a serious look in her eyes.

I already knew what choice I had made. If you’re reading this journal, then that means you knew that I chose to tell the truth of Gloria’s story to the public.

Amanda’s family fortune had been demolished by the news and they’re struggling to keep their reputation up. I hear that they’re in debt because Amanda’s parents are in prison for what they did and the family is trying to deal with the amount of news people and others who looked down on them, plus the amount of damage the family did.

I regretted what I did to Gloria but at least, I know that she’s alive and having a better life. Please leave her be, she doesn’t need another person ruining her life again.