THE SECRET OF DEATH

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edge of her pillow, "maybe a ghost is trying to get me to communicate."  She added.

Mr. Edwin leaned back on the back of the chair he was sitting on and still looked at Mrs. Caroline who according to him was half stressed, he smiled crookedly after looking around the silent clinic.  "Did you watch a horror movie last night?"  asked Mr. Edwin.

Mrs. Caroline shook her head as a no.  "I don't like horror stuff so I haven't watched it in the last two years."

"So, I have to believe your words, calm down Caroline, you're just stressed because of naughty students right?"

"No!"  she shook her head "I don't feel stressed because of bad students, you know humans never have the exact same recurring dream and I," she pointed at herself, "I had the exact same dream for two weeks, and after that I so afraid to sleep, I'm afraid."  Mrs. Caroline shook herself with fear.  "Something's wrong with me."  Mrs. Caroline suddenly cried, not because of the bitterness of the medicine in her throat but because of her deep fear, "I'm afraid, I don't want to die yet."  She said it again then she suddenly sobbed herself.

Mr. Edwin shook his head briefly then he stroked Mrs. Caroline's head who was really scared because of her dream, she was very concerned about this new teacher, she really wanted to help but she didn't know how.  "I don't know how scared you are, but you need to know that it's all just a dream, so it's not real."

"So you're saying that I'm crazy because I'm obsessed with my dreams?"  Mrs. Caroline interrupted flatly then she took Mr. Edwin's hands away from her head and she wiped her tears, after that she got up from the bed and grabbed a tissue on the table and wiped her nose which felt wet.  "I guess I have to get out of here before I go completely mad."  She got off the bed then put on her kitten heels, "I really have to go."  She said again after she grabbed her bag.

Mr.Edwin stood up from his seat then caught Mrs.Caroline's wrist quickly, "are you going back to Mexico?"  asked Mr. Edwin slowly and heavily.

"If it's necessary."  Mrs. Caroline replied, wiping her eyes, "I have no more reason to stay in this place."  She continued, "even the people I thought would help me, could do nothing but think I was crazy."

Mr. Edwin let out a long sigh then pulled Mrs. Caroline to look at him, Mr. Edwin was well built with masculine skin, eyes like those of most Europeans and his hair was black because it had been dyed a few months ago, his chest was broad and somewhat athletic because  he has been diligent in exercising since a long time ago, and his age is not so far from the age of Mrs. Caroline who is 32 and he is 35 years old.  Mr.Edwin was a handsome man among the other teaching staff, and he also felt in love with the woman in front of him who was sobbing because of her fear.  "Can it be because of me you survive?"  asked Mr. Edwin softly and he held Mrs. Caroline's shoulder in line with his voice, the woman didn't look at him at all as usual.  "Should I do something?"

Mrs. Caroline blinked her eyes "How are you going to help when your medicines can't calm me down."  Answered Mrs. Caroline firmly she then let go of Mr. Edwin's hand on her shoulder.  She didn't dare look at Mr. Edwin now, she was really messed up.

"Okay, I'll take you to meet someone. You know he looks normal, but you need to know he has more strengths than a psychic."  Mr.Edwin convinced Mrs.Caroline then.

*****

 When she got to her room she shut her bedroom door loudly and locked it tightly. She put down her bag and took off her shoes carelessly and headed into her blanket, she wrapped her body with a thick blanket even she covered her whole body, she couldn't see anything else but inside the blanket. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and he pressed the on button, but out of nowhere her phone ran out of power. Then she screamed inside her heart loudly while trying to calm herself down.

 Will the terror ever exist again, Alexa thought while plugging her ears deeply, she must be careful this time or she will end up in this place forever. No, no, the tape is fake. All of that is just a fad, how could I experience the same thing as the Sadako movie. She calmed down as best she could while the lightning flashing outside made the atmosphere even more tense.

My eyes are different from yours, again she remembered Sean's piercing words. She was getting restless, she thought if it was true that something would harm her lately but Sean was always there and made her think that Sean Thompson was a strange child in her eyes.

 Or should he meet Sean right now, and hope that Sean can save her from this sudden death?

 No-no won't, she emphasized once again. She's okay and it's all just because she's tired so she might be paranoid, maybe after eating candy she calms down or sleeps for example. She closed her eyes when her body touched the warm mattress, but her eyes didn't want to sleep at all.

 When her eyes started to feel heavy suddenly suddenly shrill when she heard footsteps in her room, she was pounding again when she heard the bed beside her which had been empty for two months, for some reason it was as if someone climbed on top of the bed and tried to sleep but the person is too restless.

 Alexa's breath catches, she can't turn around or push aside her thick blanket. Alexa just stood still inside the blanket enjoying her fear and trying to use her ears to catch the atmosphere outside the blanket.

 The hairs on her neck were now bristling to her face, when she heard a woman's voice humming beside her. Her hum was a verse of a song that she couldn't guess, she might have guessed but because she was afraid she couldn't guess it all. She enjoyed the hum with her body trembling with watery eyes and tears, she could also feel her cell phone vibrating under the pillow. Slowly her cold hands reached for the cellphone and shifted the security lock on her cellphone screen, she felt like she was going to be nauseous when his stomach shook, she found that her cellphone, which had no network, displayed a video sent from someone she didn't know.

 Slowly her hand touched the video post and a few seconds later the video was playing, but only a black screen was visible and a woman's voice was singing. She listened to the song for almost a minute but she didn't know what the video meant, when the second minute the song entered was not heard, a minute later suddenly the black screen turned white and she saw a woman in uniform apparently hanging from the ceiling of the room.

 Surprisingly, she knew where the location was, she looked at the video deeply with minimal courage, she saw two side by side beds not far from the hanging girl. She seemed in disbelief when she saw one of the beds. One of the beds saw someone hiding under the covers.

 Deg..Deg..Deg..

Her heart was pounding hard, she tried to calm herself while glancing slowly behind her, her back, which had been facing away from the uninhabited bed, felt cold as if someone was standing behind her back. Then her cell phone let out a scream that made her ears hurt, without thinking she threw her cell phone out of the blanket, she really went limp. She didn't even care that her cell phone was heard shattering from under her blanket, and a few minutes later she got out of her blanket and backed out of bed.

 She looked around the room wildly, she tried to match the room she saw from the cell phone. Exactly the same, but she didn't find a girl in a hanging uniform or someone lying on the bed humming.

 Her cold sweaty hands slowly grabbed the room key tagged 244, and ran towards the door.

 *****