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Today is like everyday. I go to AIS and study. My mom is busy and I have to go to 8 o’ clock. I just look around the room while waiting for the other. The atmosphere is fresh and cool; it makes me feel at ease. I pull the blinds to the left to see the outside. It’s Vietnamese’s style; everybody is urgent, traffic jam. I close the blind and continue walking. Suddenly, I hear the clicking sound from the computer like someone is clicking the keyboard. I scare and move slowly forward to the computer. I stand in front of it and the sound is stop. I gasp. My eyes open wide because someone had log in the computer, opened Microsoft Word and perhaps that guy wrote this down, “The last minutes of your life, enjoy it.” It must be a joke. Then, I walk upstairs to the cafeteria. That floor is empty, just chairs, table and nonliving. I feel terrible and my brain is messing up. I run downstairs again to Mr. Mitchell room. The lights were off. I remember when I went upstairs I didn’t turn off the lights. I walk the entire passageway to look at the other room; they are the same situation as Mr. Mitchell’s room. Now I really want to go home. I take my bag and press the buttons school by bus (not school bus). School is a little bit strange. There are no security guards. “Oh! Perhaps they are drinking coffee… g the same time,” I think to myself with a strange feeling. I walk inside slowly and slowly. Things is normal, the furniture, computers, water bottle, stairs and the elevator are still there. But there aren’t any people. “Drinking coffee again?” I shack my head. First period is Mr. Mitchell class. I rarely use the elevator; I walk to the fourth floor. I shock, “Where are the students? Eating breakfast …at the same time, again?” I go to my desk and sit peacefully. It’s not time for class yet so I take rest because I woke up very early this morning. About fifteen or twenty minutes after that, I hear the bell ring and I wake up. I’m very surprised, nobody is here, too. It is on the outside of the elevator hardly. I not believed in ghosts but I’m very afraid of it. The door of the elevator is opening. I look around the floor again carefully and go inside the elevator. . My head is lean on the mirror. I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I feel calm down a little bit. Something is on my foot, I look down. Oh, my paper is fall down on my foot. I bend forward to the pick up the paper. Unintentionally, I look at the mirror. “Ahhhhh,” I roar. There is a white shadow that has the shape like human >”< so I think it’s a ghost. This is distinctive. Whenever I watch a film, ghost’s face in the film usually cover by long black hair with a long white dress. But this is totally different. This ghost’s face is not cover with long black hair so I can see the face. It is totally miserable. I think it was burned in very hot temperature. I hate that smile so much, it frighten me a lots. The elevator stopped and its open and I run out with tear are flowing entire my face. “The door, the door, the door… is locked,” I shout despairingly. I sit down on the floor slowly. Suddenly, the room change. It’s the ground floor of AIS, but the surrounding is change. There are candles everywhere, some are short, and some are tall. “Hello, my girl. Welcome to my secret place.”
“Who are you?” I ask.
“My name’s Rin. I control the future of everything in the world.” reply the man.
“Oh, are you joking with me, I’m not a person who is easy to trick.”
“You don’t believe me, do you?” despise Rin, “I’ll show you your future.”
“Ok. Then do it.”
“The candles are present the times of your life. Let’s see…Ah, I saw your name.”
He point at the candle. It’s short and nearly ends. It means the times left of my life is very short. I ask him and he say yes, it’s true. I’m not believed in this but I still have the feeling of the people scared because they near the death. Rin saw worring in my face so he ask.
“Do you want to live longer than your destiny?” ask Rin with a haft- smile.
“Of course, that is a silly question. Everybody want it. But it’ll never happen.” reply I.
“You’ve forgot that I control everything, increase human life. Nothing is impossible.”
Rin opens his hand and the card is fall into it. He turns the card, it is a picture with a skull and a big red word :”death”.
“This is for you.” Smile Rin with a horror and evil voice, “You give your soul to fiend and you will have a longer life time. I mean you’ll have an immortal life. This contract is perfect, isn’t it?”
Now my brain is messing up, it’s full of scare, confuse and thinking. I want to say something but I don’t khow what should I say. Finally, I decided what should I choose and I ‘m going to tell him.
I starling wake up. Oops, it was just a fream, the worst dream I ever had. I stand up and I see my mom.
“Sorry honey, I arrived late becase I had a lots of works to do.” My mom smile.
“It’s OK, mom.” I smile back.
While we are walking out of the school, I hear a slight sound like a paper fell. I look back and I see a card with a skull and a big red word: “death” is on the floor.