Chapter 4: courting death
The room was silent. The only thing that could be heard was the sound of their breathing. It was as if something had seized their throats because they couldn't even scream.
Auren's cold sweat soaked through his clothes and he could sense a chill penetrating his body.
Auren cried, "Spirit, spirit, please leave! Please leave, please leave…"
The girl sitting opposite auren snapped out of it as well. "Spirit, please leave! We'll continue tomorrow night, please leave for today."
Auren had a really bad feeling about this.
After a long while, his hand finally relaxed and released the pen, but his back remained soaked with sweat.
Click. The lights flashed on and auren hastily covered his eyes. It took a long time to adjust to the intense light, but it was a relieving sight.
The darkness was always inexplicably strange and eerie.
The person who had turned on the lights was the girl that had been sitting opposite auren. She was very pretty with spirited eyes. Her eyes were still currently filled with alarm, but compared to the other three that were leaning weakly on the table, her state was the best.
For a while, no one spoke. That experience earlier had been too terrifying. The room was so quiet that their rapid heartbeats seemed almost audible.
Everyone just stayed in this silence for a long time until the girl that had turned on the lights said, "We should go shower and sleep."
So they all went and showered before getting onto their respective beds. Auren lay on the bed and listening to his own rapid heartbeat. Fudge, he nearly had a heart attack!
"valory, don't close the lights, I'm scared." The girl who was on the bunk below auren spoke, her voice still trembling.
"I'm scared too," said the other girl.
The girl named valory tried to reassure them. "Everything's okay, the spirit's gone."
Auren still felt cold even with the blankets around him. It was as if a chill had seeped into his very bones.
Why court death this way?
It was quite a while before his body finally warmed up a little, then he started receiving the storyline.
The original host's name was bella. She was a freshman in college and from the countryside. She had gotten into this college through her exceptional grades and obtained a scholarship that covered half of her tuition.
However, Bella's dormmates had all grown up in the city and their daily discussion consisted of makeup, boys, how much certain brand name clothing costed, how much a limited edition bag costed, and things like that. Bella couldn't get a single word in, and the other three subconsciously rejected bella because of her unsophisticated background.
Bella hadn't made a single friend since coming to college and was very lonely. She really wanted to integrate into this little group, but she didn't know how to.
The dorm liked exploring strange things, so valory, who had joined the Supernatural Association, suggested playing with an Ouija board one day, and this time, they had bella join as well.
Bella came from a rural village and had a respectful attitude towards spirits and the like. After all, villagers tended to be superstitious and a lot more strange things occurred in the countryside than in the city, so bella tried to dissuade the others from playing this because it was easy for things to go out of control.