“So that’s the story of the famous couple of Manning High” said Mrs. Parker. In that split of a second the bell rang breaking the silence that erupted in the room. “Cool!” replied Eric sheepishly as the others were getting chills down their spine. “God that’s scary…I don’t think I’m going to sleep tonight!” said Kelly. “Kelly stop bugging you know it isn’t true…ghosts don’t exist. Mrs. Parker said it was a rumour. Look man you all can think whatever you want to think but I am not falling for this.” replied Ryan.
“Ok guys forget all these supposed scary rumours, are you all coming to my house on Friday night to play truth or dare? It’ll be so much fun.” inquired Ryan. “Yes I guess so, it’s better than sitting in a big house all alone on a Friday night.” replied Kelly. “How about you Stephanie, are you coming?” Stephanie replied, “Of course Ryan, you know I love to play truth or dare.” “Count me in too” said Eric. Ryan said cheerfully, “All right great, we seem to have a full house…that way no one can get scared, get it?” Kelly said, “Stop joking around, it’s not funny.” “Well Eric seemed to laugh” muttered Ryan. But in a sarcastic tone Kelly replied “Eric always laughs!”
Friday was Halloween so everyone dressed up in costumes. Ryan had outdone himself on the night of Halloween as he decorated his house to look like a haunted house with many scary tricks. As they all entered they were flabbergasted by the hanging skeletons; the glowing pumpkins sitting at the feet of the main door; the gruel, grotesque and bloody heads that hung from the ceiling so they came right in Stephanie’s, Eric’s and Kelly’s faces as they met eye to eye with them. To add to all the horrific scenes, Ryan dressed up as a rotting corpse.
“Wow Ryan you really decorated this well…scary but cool.” exclaimed Stephanie. Kelly blurted, “Ryan you really know how to scare someone.” Ryan who was impatient said, “Come on guys let’s play truth or dare.” The game lasted for about an hour. The last dare was the most interesting dare. Eric had dared Stephanie to walk in the school basement for five minutes.
At first it seemed impossible as there was no way of getting in the school, but Eric had found a way to get in. It was through an old dirty window full of spider webs. They approached the school and Eric took about two minutes to open the window to the basement because it was jammed shut as it hadn’t been opened for many years. Stephanie slid in slowly whilst quite afraid of the dare. She finally entered the school basement which was dark and dusty. The basement smelled awkward. Stephanie switched on the torch slowly as her fingers were trembling with fear. She pointed it to various parts of the room to see what was there and she found old grimy textbooks in a big pile stacked in a dark corner of the room which was wrapped with spider webs. Stephanie wanted to go back as she was too terrified to stay any longer. She shouted, “You guys, I’m coming back. This is too scary!”
“Stephanie the dare was five minutes and you’ve only been there for three minutes.” Eric replied with a giggle but he seemed to be the only one laughing. Stephanie kept walking on the old wooden boards which made creaking noises as she stepped on them. Her hands felt wet on the torch because she was sweating profusely with fear. Stephanie treaded on something and she screeched. She then pointed the torch to see what it was. She found a necklace with a beautiful pendant and she held on to it as she walked back to the window. After she completed her dare of five minutes in the school basement, she climbed out of the window with signs of relief and happiness.
“Look guys, I found a necklace in the basement. Ryan can you put the necklace on for me?” Little did Stephanie know that that was Becky’s necklace. No one else had realised either.
Four months went by. It was the night of the dance. Stephanie went with Ryan and Kelly went with Eric. It was the last dance before this generation of students left for college, so most of them weren’t so happy. “Guys can you believe this is our last dance at this school?” said Ryan despondently. Stephanie replied, “That’s so true. It’ll be along time till we meet again.” Kelly said, “I’ll be right back…just going to the toilet.”
Kelly was just refreshing up in the bathroom when suddenly from the air vent of the toilet, Kelly was hearing mysterious sounds, like “I’ll get you Tom! I’ll get you!” After she went to the toilet she wanted to find out who was crying for revenge. “What was that?” Kelly screeched, not realising she was speaking to herself. She went around the school halls in search of the mystery voice. Eventually the sounds were coming from the basement. So she went down slowly, frightened of what she might encounter. The basement was cold and weary. “Oh my God this is scary! I even have the goose bumps”. Kelly felt that there was someone else in the basement but in reality she was the only one there. Right at the corner of her eye she saw something move. She was horrified. She closed her eyes to calm herself down and she turned and nothing was there. She was so stunned that her feet would not budge. Out of the left corner of the eye, she saw something move and then she started whispering to herself “This is not happening…it’s in my imagination.” Kelly was very jittery…she broke down into a cold sweat. At that moment, she felt as if something passed right through her but it never came out. Kelly was now possessed… “I’ll get you Tom! You just wait and see!”
Eric said, “Hey, have you seen Kelly? She’s been in the toilet for twenty minutes. Stephanie can you go check on her?” Stephanie replied, “Yeah sure…Ryan can you come with me, it’s quite scary in these dark school halls.” Stephanie went to the toilet and Ryan stood outside patiently. He heard some sounds but he didn’t know where they were coming from. Curiously he followed the direction of the sound. Just suddenly out of the darkness of the halls Kelly popped out scaring Ryan a bit even though he was acting un-afraid. “I’ve been looking all over for you. Where have you been?” stuttered Ryan. “Nowhere” she replied with no tone or expression in her answer. At that instant Kelly’s eyes flared with fury, and she started choking Ryan. He tried his hardest to gasp for air, but Kelly’s grip was too strong. Eventually Ryan gave up and fell to the floor. Kelly ran away quickly and hid in the basement of the school.
“Ryan, oh my God…what happened?” shouted Stephanie. She shook him hard when there was no movement she screamed, “He’s dead!” She started crying, smudging the entire make up on her face. Eric also came in search of his friends and he saw Ryan and Stephanie both on the floor. Eric cried, “Who did this?! No way, he can’t be dead…Let’s get to a hospital.” Stephanie replied, “Eric it’s too late…he’s dead!”
Eric said, “Who could have killed him?” “Do you think it could have been Kelly?” said Stephanie warily.
“I have heard stories where ghosts possess people and they control the body, but right now I don’t know what to believe. I don’t know whether ghosts exit or not. Do you think she is possessed by Becky? Because I heard voices saying ‘I’ll get you Tom’, whilst trying to find Kelly in the bathroom. She wasn’t in the bathroom. Eric I think she has been possessed by Becky because those voices were not of Kelly. They were quite eerie.” said Stephanie.
Eric replied, “Stop being paranoid. You have been acting very strange lately, and why would Kelly kill Ryan. I’m going sort this right now…I’m going to go down to the basement to get Kelly.” said Eric. Stephanie cried, “No don’t go! She might be possessed! Becky will kill you!” “I don’t believe in ghosts so you can’t scare me…just calm down!” said Eric unafraid of any upcoming, scary circumstances.
Eric opened the door of the basement and entered carefully placing his step as it was pitch black in there. “Hello is anybody in here?” inquired Eric. There was no reply so he kept wandering around the basement. Out of a corner Kelly came out. Eric looked surprised, “Kelly you scared me…Come on let’s go up. We were looking for you, something bad has happened”. Kelly replied coldly, “No I won’t!” She then took a wooden plank from the floor and started hitting Eric aiming for his head. Eric tried to protect himself as he tried to fight her off. He found a steel rod which was sharp at one end and with all the might he had left he stabbed Kelly right through the stomach killing her instantly. He took a few panting breaths, tripped and fell down hitting his head and slowly bled to death.
Stephanie heard some noises and screams down below and called 999. She did not dare to venture down herself. After the police had arrived, there was a long wait and ordeal. Stephanie heard about the horrifying deaths of Kelly and Eric. She then realised that her instincts were right about Becky. So Stephanie asked the officer, “Do you know about someone called Tom Richards?” the police officer replied, “As a matter of fact I do, he committed suicide about ten years ago.”
From this day on Becky the ghost of Manning High School still lurks the school basement in search for a body so she can kill Tom…
