Prose Fiction : The Mysterious Amulet (Part 2)

 

        Upon going through two days of a rather normal two days of School-Based Experience (SBE) journey, it did not take long until it took a twist. It all started on the third day of my SBE adventure.

The third day,

        It all started just like the two previous days where I woke up early for sahur and went to school around 7:00 pm. On this day I have set my goals to complete the assignment that I have to do when conducting the SBE which was to give some questions paper to the students and also observe a class during the English lesson. Thus, since morning I was busy trying to find a class to give the questions to the students and successfully do so. Then, I proceed to find an English teacher to ask for permission to observe the class. This is where I met madam Elda and was very fortunate as she give me permission right away. As a result, I was able to reach my goals the day earlier than I expected which cause me to get bored real quick.

        In order to fill my spare time, I decided to wander off around the school until I found something rather interesting. What I found is an old looking classroom that is very far from other buildings and also pretty much locked and fully sealed. This makes me curious and wanted to discover the story behind the single building that contains just one classroom and why it looks so spooky and messed up such as it has not been used for such a long time. However, non of the teachers there know anything about the classroom and I was about to give up my research about the classroom until I met an old man that work as a gardener at the school. He warned me not to ask anything about the classroom as it is actually taboo to do so. He also advised me to not go anywhere near the classroom.

        However, the warning and advice makes me much more curious about the classroom and which not much thought, I decided to explore the classroom myself. Upon entering the classroom by breaking the locked door using my lock-picking skill, I noticed that the atmosphere inside the classroom is eerily dark despite it only being 11:00 am and very bright outside. It is probably because all the windows are properly sealed and no light could enter the classroom. 

        Despite that, with the little braveness that I had, I open the flashlight from my phone and enter the classroom slowly. With each and every step, my heart started to beat faster and faster. To my surprise, there are still a lot of tables and chairs in what seems to be an arrangement almost as if the classroom was sealed suddenly without any proper clean up. Then, I noticed that on the teacher's table there was a strange-looking amulet. It has a round silver base with a green skull in the middle of it. While looking at the bizarre amulet, suddenly a loud bang are coming from the bottom of the teacher's which startled me and caused me to run out of the classroom which also make me accidentally drop the amulet on the floor. 

        That night I just could not stop thinking about the amulet but I was too afraid to ask anyone about it. Hence, I did the research myself through google but nothing is there to explain the odd amulet. In the end, I fell asleep while thinking about the truth of the amulet.

The fourth day,

        The next day, I woke up with the same ambition as last night, which was to find out more about the amulet. This encouraged me to go to the dark and old classroom again and take the amulet home with me. As I went to the school and conducted my SBE as per usual, I finally have a chance to visit the classroom again. However, I was shocked as the door was completely just like it had never been opened before. The questions running through my mind were, "how is it still completely sealed? Is what happened yesterday a dream? or just a hallucination?". This time, however, no matter how hard I tried, I could not able to pick the lock or break into the classroom which soon, I stopped trying and went to the toilet on the second floor to wash my tired face.

        Just when I try to wash my face and opened the pipe, there was no water coming out of the pipe. A few seconds later, the pipe started making a sound as if the water would come out and unfortunately something peculiar happened. There was a stream of blood slowly pouring out of the pipe which freaked me out really bad. I was running out of the toilet and quickly tried to find my SBE partners to tell them what happened. Little did I know that what happened just now was only the beginning. As I was coming back to my sense, I noticed that suddenly there was nobody at the school except for me. There were no pupils, no teachers or any workers. The sky also looked dark like it was almost night despite it still right in the afternoon. I quickly rushed through the corridor to the stairs but to my surprise, the stairs suddenly have a dead end. I was shocked and decided to look for other stairs but the result was the same, there was no way out of the school building.

        Then, I was confused, scared and could not think straight about what I should do. I tried to call anyone using my handphone but it seems to not working. I also looked at my watch, and even my watch had stopped working. Finally, I tried to scream for help but my effort seems worthless as there were responses at all. When I was just about to give up, suddenly I heard something drop on the floor behind my back. It was yesterday's amulet. Then, I think to myself "is this the cause of all this? is it my fault for touching it yesterday?". I started to regret my decision to break into the classroom yesterday.

        As I was still shocked at seeing the amulet, I saw a black looking figure with red eyes approaching me slowly. In no time, I ran as far as I can from the figure but every time I turned back, I saw it chasing me. No matter how much I ran, it always managed to catch up with my pace. At last, I reach the dead end of the corridor. I was too scared to turn around and just end up close my eyes and hoping for the best. Not long after closing my eyes, I heard a familiar siren-like sound becoming louder and louder. Then, when I opened my eyes, I realised that I was still in bed and the sound of my alarm have been going on for minutes. I checked my phone and realised it was still the morning of my fourth day of SBE. All of the thinking about the mysterious amulet causes the nightmare to happen. Therefore, I think it was wise to stop thinking about the amulet and just go on normally with my SBE.

The final day, 

        On the fourth day, everything went completely normal at the school, despite the morning starting with a hellish nightmare. Next, it is time to say goodbye to the school and friends on the last day of SBE. I was not thinking about the classroom or the amulet anymore and just focus on completing my task for SBE. As the watch struck 1:30 pm, there was the end of my SBE journey at the school. I was able to take some photos with my SBE partners and bid one last farewell before leaving the school to go home. When I arrived home, entered my room and lay on the bed, I was relieved to think that I was able to through SBE successfully. While laying on the bed and looking through the photos that I had just taken with my friends, the sound of something dropping on my table startled me. I take a glance at the table and there it was laying there, the mysterious amulet from the creepy classroom.

~THE END~