Creepy Stories Of Eszed
REPEAT THE #1

Raindrops accompanied, as Eri and I entered the old building next to this school. There were no signs of life in it, just a few old office benches and chairs left behind years ago.

Actually we do not want to go to this creepy and smelly place. If Galih hadn't challenged me yesterday before school, maybe Eri and I would never have been here.

I am indeed a very ordinary student, with no notable achievements, and a kuper. My closed and quiet attitude, has always been the target of powerful and pretentious children like Galih with her flock.

I don't like to hang out with the others. They're too noisy and I think they often do useless things. During school, no one was familiar enough with me, except Eri.

My closeness to Eri may also be the material of their teasing. How not? I always refuse to gather with male peers, and prefer to sit in the cafeteria with Eri who incidentally is a student, Juna's name was suddenly changed by the call of June, and they were called, if not, sometimes called a sissy.

I still remember what happened yesterday, when Lily tried to lift my chin using her fingers so she could look into my eyes and threaten me, that if I didn't come today, I would have to, then not only one class will call me a sissy, but the whole school.

I've had enough of her moons with her flock, Faizal and Lily, over the years. Plus Galih is a person who has charisma and suple, I'm sure when he refuses his invitation, the whole school will give me a sissy nickname.

"Come, June. Just in time you didn't dare? Don't tell me I should call your mother to accompany me?" lily's words make my heart hot.

Soon I might have brushed off that hand and almost threw the math book right in her face, but Eri clasped my hand tightly and shook her head slowly, a sign she wished there was no fight.

"I'm not scared! Especially with the unqualified challenge you've made," my hardik is upset.

Brava!

Gilang's hand clap felt extremely crisp floating in the air. I knew it was not a cheer of admiration, but a mockery. If his offer to test my guts after the magrib had been ignored, then they would never stop making me a hoax.

"Why the hell, should this building?" eri's protest distracted me. She was unbinding her red hair so she could dry her moist shoulder hair due to the rain.

Eri said, Why should that place? I even had a moment of silence to hear Galih determine this building as a gathering place. What a strange request it sounds unpleasant.

It has often been reported that there is a ghost of a woman of Chinese descent who inhabits this place. Sometimes in a quiet state, people passing by heard his voice whimpering and crying.

Some stories describe her as a slender woman with white skin, long straight hair, slim body, with drops of blood flowing from wounds on her stomach due to a puncture.

Until now, no one had ever come face to face with the ghost of the woman, but some bikers who were alone, often felt the burden of the motorbike increased, like someone was hitching a ride.

Whether the story is true or not, but the place that Galih chose, really makes the people he will be invited to think twice to participate.

"Why are you coming, Ri? Not that it seems cool, even suspected I ask you again." I grumbled.

"Can't do it dong. Instead of talking in front of the two of us, yes we go together. Besides, I'm tired of no activity this week" Eri argued. Suddenly

Sreeeeekkk

Sreeeeekkk

The sound of footprints stepping on the leaves stopped our debate. It was dark, we couldn't see who was coming. Not a single light illuminated this place.

My feelings began to feel bad, there was no sign of the arrival of Galih and the others, according to the scheduled time. I stared stiffly at the face of Eri who was also silent and tried to focus on the direction of the sound just now, then ....

Duaaaaaaarr!

Galih almost made my heart jump out of place because she suddenly appeared from behind and pulled my backpack down.

"Shock, June?" his claws then laughed out loud followed by Faizal and Lily who were behind him.

"If you're afraid, why am I here first?" my bell.

"Curtain! Strongest." This time the fucking Faizal spoke up.

"Here you go, do you want the gravestones here, or really do a guts test?" I tried to hold her in control so she wouldn't look weak in their eyes. Because of those words, Eri who was standing next to me laughed.

"Wow, it's time for a sissy to turn into a man. There's no plan to take your mother, June?" lily's innuendo directed her gaze where Eri was standing.

I just looked down silently, not returning her words, but Eri was upset and almost jumped to grab Lily's face, but I held it with a pinch that had to land on her waist. We can't lose before what Galih and the herd have planned is over.

"Yes, come with us." Take over the situation.

We walked slowly with Galih in the front row and I in the back walking side by side with Eri. His steps stopped at an empty room that was only illuminated by light from outside the window.

Instead take the emergency light from his bag and put it in the middle of the room. He ordered us to sit around the lamp. I didn't want to sit down and put my thighs on the dirty, disgusting floor of this room.

I don't know just my feelings, but sometimes I see strange little shadow movements at the end of the room. This is the most ridiculous decision I have ever made in my life.

"Would you like to sit down or have me, June?" Faizal made fun of me, then laughed and lit his cigarette. You fucking mouth!

I took a deep breath and crouched down, then sat down slowly, hoping that there wasn't much friction I made so that my pants could stay clean when I came home later.

"I think you guys who are here, already know about the story circulating about this building," asked Galih to start a conversation.

"We know. About a teenage girl who killed herself, right?" lily replied relaxed.

"Yes, right. You know why he killed himself?" continued Galih.

"Oh, stress is possible." Faizal answered indifferently then laughed out loud.

"Why did he kill himself?" Eri suddenly asked.

Instead of being silent, turning his eyeballs looked at us one by one. Silent and cold into one makes the atmosphere become very dark. He took a short pause and took a deep breath to continue the story.

"My brother used to go to the same school as us. About 10 years ago. At that time, the school was shocked by the corpse of a beautiful, narrow-eyed, 16-year-old woman who was found rotting in the building next to the long-abandoned school. And in this room, that's where the woman died."

"Wait first. It's not like your sister didn't go to school in Indonesia. Galih?" Faizal.

"Yes, right. He moved in his first school year in third grade and did not continue his schooling here. But when I was a kid, he always told me about the woman who died in the old building next to his school."

Deg

My heart is beating unbecoming. So it is true, that people's stories that there are ghosts of poor women who live in this place. I imagine looking at Eri, and seeing his face that is no less frightened than me. His breath was wheezing, with great sweat. The atmosphere of horror, indeed filled this room to feel crowded.

Suddenly ....

Huaaaaaaaaaah!

Lily shouted hysterically, then jumped up as if there was something terrible she had just seen. I could no longer stand up to him, but he was sitting right next to me. All I did was sit there staring at his face and tightly squeeze my black backpack.

"You why?" hardik Faizal with a serious face mimic as he approached Lily.

"Rice! There's a rat that passed my thigh." Lily's face turned pale. "I'm not afraid of ghosts, but if it's a rat, I give up!

A sigh of relief passed through our esophageal cavity. Nothing escaped the shock and fear as he shouted earlier. Thank goodness it was just a mouse.

"You're crazy, Ly. Nothing has made it all crazy." I took the opportunity to reciprocate his strict attitude all this time. Lily just hit me back with a lot of the threats she used to make.

"It doesn't need to be extended to the affairs of the rodents. You're not gonna die from being bitten by a rat, Lily." Galih seemed annoyed that Lily was showing her weakness in front of me. "You going ahead or what?"

"Okay, go on, Gal," I said confidently after seeing one of the herds being shaken just because of a mouse.

"According to people's stories, if we count to the number ten while closing our eyes, then the figure of the woman will gradually show its form when after opening our eyes. And that was the challenge today" Galih explained.

"You mean, you want us to prove that ridiculous story?" my many.

No answer came out of Galih's mouth. He just nodded slowly and quietly waited for my approval. Obviously I do not agree with the unfaithful actions he wants.

"No! Do anything as useless as you often do, but not for things like this." I stood up and put my backpack back on.

I quickly grabbed the hand of Eri who was still sitting cross-legged on the floor to invite him away, but he did not move from there.

"This is your chance, Juna. If you go home, they'll never stop bothering you" Eri said without turning back.

I stood sculpting. My brain justifies it, but my heart really doesn't. I really don't feel good about this.

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Lily was appointed to lead the count so that we could open our eyes together after the tenth number. Not even did he do that, my heart is no longer because of his making.

I'm not the cowardly type of person, but I really don't like it when unexpected things come up. My mind began to guess the next unwanted event.

"One."

I took a deep breath to calm my mind. I'm not afraid and I'm not a coward. Nothing's gonna happen here, I'm sure.

"Two."

Luckily, there was Eri who was always by my side to give her best support. He was the best friend I could always count on.

"Three."

I just have to be patient tonight, so that it will no longer be a material teasing. All I have to do is think of the wonderful things about the freedom I will have after this. Everything will go normally, without Galih and his herd always bothering me at school.

"Four."

Sreeekk, sreeek.

Ah ... what sound is that? There was a sound of friction heard. Maybe someone in this room was moving, or the rats were astonished to see us sitting pecking without doing anything.

"Five."

I want to open my eyes and put an end to this madness. You idiot! I'm really stupid. Time goes by, it feels very slow. Why did Lily count feel so long?

"Six."

Ngiiiikkk

Suddenly the sound of the door creaking as if opened sounded very clear. There's no way a rat can push a door like that, right?

"Seven."

The feathers on my back felt warm like someone was breathing there. I really couldn't take it anymore, squeezing my own finger hard.

"Eight."

My chest was tight, my breathing was stifled and unable to breathe freely in the air that was here. I could feel the flow of sweat restrained above my eyebrows and flowing freely from my temples to my cheeks.

"Nine."

In a moment, in a minute. What will we face after this?

"Ten."

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➖ Sarah Eszed ➖**