Horror Stories Collection 2019 (2)

"I heard this story from a student from 5-C class. I called this story as..."

Itsuki's story - Balcony.

I used to visit my aunt and hanged around with my cousins a lot when I was still a little kid. My aunt lived at the countryside, as a city boy, I was curious about the surrounding in the countryside, my cousin would bring me along for some 'exploration' around his place with his friends. That day, as usual, I went to my aunt's house, my cousin told me that they found an interesting place that morning and were planned to explore the place that evening, he invited me to join and of course I agreed to join them.

That evening, we went deep into a 'small forest' that make out of tall grasses, then we reached our 'destination', it's an abandoned mansion, it is a really unusual thing to see at the countryside, well, even in the city, it's quite rare to see such a gorgeous looking mansion. My cousin told me that this mansion was rumored to be a haunted house, a lady was murdered in that mansion. He suggested that we went in and explore it a bit, so we went in and left a friend watching outside.

The interior of the mansion is not as gorgeous as it looks like, it's old and dirty, the surrounding was dim and dusty, spider webs can be seen everywhere, some part of the building were corroded by termites, disgusted by the sight, we decided to get out of the mansion, but before we walk out, we heard our friend shouting at us from the outside saying there is a person in the house. What? In a place like this? I thought and ran out with the others. After we get out from the mansion, that friend pointed at the balcony, and we all looked at that direction, then we saw a woman in a dirty white dress staring at us from the balcony, we were scared at the sight. Was that the spirit of the murdered lady? However, that one friend of my cousin who has a really big nerve picks up a stone and threw it at her, she ran away into the darkness of the mansion. Then we ran back home as fast as we can. No one ever dares to talk about this matter ever again...

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"That's all?" said Sky. "Shhh... He hasn't blown out the candle." said Chris while smashed Sky's head with a book.

"Years have passed, we reunited once again and we decided to talk about that incident from our childhood, but to our surprise that, my cousin told us a secret that he has been keeping in his heart for years. That day when we are exploring the mansion, he saw a room with a big lock at the upper stairs... And the lock is new. At that moment we can't help but think that what if the woman we saw is not a spirit but a living human that been trapped in the small room. The End. " Itsuki blows out his candle.

Hearing the ending of the story, everyone felt a chill down to their spine, looking at each other without saying anything for a few seconds. To break the awkward silence, Chris pick up another candle and place it in front of Ai. "Oh! So it's my turn."