Chapter 35: game over

"What?! He told you that?!" "Hmm… we are even going out after this trip" "Awww I envy you, you are so lucky" "How far did you guys go already, huh,huh" while touching Emica using her elbow. "We hold hands" 'Did you two kissed already?" Emica's face suddenly blushed. "Oh, oh, you're not answering. Silence means yes" "She's even blushing", Fuyumi added then they laughed. "Ssshhh… they might hear us", Nakumi whispered. "Where's the chip?" "I ate it all, bleh", said Emica. That night, they are the only students who remained awake.

"Did you guys heard?" "Heard what?" "This house is haunted" "You're kidding" "It's true. I heard it from the care taker. A family once live in here. A mother, a father with two kids and a cat" "You're inventing it" "It's true, they all died in here in different rooms. The dad always go home drunk at night. The mother is afraid to say a word, she always hide and always gloomy. Those kids remain in their room, crying in silence. As they heard those big footsteps, don't say a word, don't move. The next day, they found their cat dead in the living room. That was the time, the mother decided to leave her husband and go back to her hometown together with her kids where her old parents are. Faster, faster. Double time before the sky gets dark and he will arrive. Waiting for the service car, her husband arrived. He saw those luggage then his face turned sour. Those large footsteps makes them shake in fear. He pulled her hair dragging inside the house. Both the cries of the kids and the scream of the wife covered the whole place. He told the kids to go to their rooms and they obeyed him immediately. They eke themselves at the corner of their room covering their ears sobbing in fear. After a moment, they heard a laugh. An evil laugh they never heard before like a witch ascending to their direction. One, two, she tried to open the kid's room. Three, the kids feel relieved to know that it was their mother. Four, they saw the kitchen knife she was holding. The mother smiled widely showing her big yellow teeth. The kids run downstairs where they saw their own father bathing in his own blood. The mother called their names, the same with the sound of the metal on the walls. The two kids got separated, the other one hid in the kitchen and the other one get out of the house. When he realized that his brother is not with him, he go back inside to look for his brother. He hid in the bathroom, hearing those unpleasant sounds. Without a blink, he went out where he is hiding when he heard his brother's scream. He saw him trapped on his mother's hand. Without saying a word, he knows that his brother is screaming for help. His hands are sweating and run to her direction come what may. They found five dead bodies on the house after a week" "Five? I thought it was just four?" "Until now, no one knows who owns the fifth found dead body" "You're too good in making stories. Where did it came from? In a movie? A horror book? Or in the internet", said Fuyumi. "It's true. The care taker told me" "Do you believe on that old hunchback? Why would he scare the students if he himself is enough to make them run in fears" "Enough of that nonsense already, it is getting late. We should go to our beds now and sleep" "Woooohhhh, watch out Emica. Those family might appear in front of you", said Nakumi. "Nooo!", said Emica covering her whole body in blanket.

"Waaaahhh!!", a scream from Emica woke the two up early in the morning. The sun is starting to rise and the teacher began calling them for breakfast.

"It was all your fault Nakumi, you told a scary story at midnight, and now I dreamed about it" "You really believe on that fake made up story?", said Fuyumi. "I told you to watch out" Hitoshi sit beside Fuyumi while Kazumi and Kota sit on the other table. "Are you still fighting", Fuyumi asked Nakumi. "Kazumi said that he already gave up on that thing like you wanted to do, so why don't we get together again" "How about you? I saw you two having a chat yesterday and you even didn't say hi to each other after" "That was because—" "That was because of me", Hitoshi interrupted. "Huh?!" "Oh, Fuyumi still didn't told you. Fuyumi and I are dating" "Huh?!" "Huh?!" "Sssshhh… let's keep it a secret for now", Fuyumi whispered. "You, why did you told them", Fuyumi whispered to Hitoshi. "Why? Do you want to keep Hitoshi by yourself? I didn't know that you are selfish Fuyumi", said Nakumi then look at Emica and they smiled together. "No not that" "Guys announcement, announcement!!", Nakumi said standing at the top of her chair with matching clapping hands. "Hey, hey, what are you doing? Are you crazy?", whispered Fuyumi to Nakumi while stopping her and letting her get down of the chair. "Our beloved faces of the class 2-D, Fuyumi and Hitoshi are—" "Nakumi, Nakumi stop", Fuyumi said stopping her like Nakumi is making a fuss after drinking the two whole bottle of a liquor in a bar. "Guys, don't listen to her. She just woke up on the wrong side of the bed", Fuyumi tells everyone. "Would you help me here", she said to Hitoshi yet he doesn't care at all. "I don't mind if everyone will know" "What?! Are you crazy?! Your girls will kill me and what you told me is that we will keep this a secret as much as possible" "I changed my mind. I thought it would be much better that everyone knows, the more jealousy coming on the way" "Grrrr…. I shouldn't have agreed to this in the first place" "Fuyumi and Hitoshi are—" Fuyumi covered her mouth and pull her down the chair. "What is going on here?", asked the teacher. "Nothing teacher!", answered Fuyumi. "It is early in the morning and you are acting like you are drunk" Nakumi fixed the way she was seated and herself. "Okay fine, that was wrong of me. But can you guys tell us, how far did you go?" "What?! You just asked the same question to Emica last night. We just started dating so we didn't did anything on what is in your mind, we didn't even hold hands" "What?! Hitoshi, you're that slow" "Huh, girls. I just want to take the moment slowly, we will eventually go to that in time", explained Hitoshi. 'That is why I didn't want you to tell them", Fuyumi whispered to Hitoshi's ears. "If you are really are dating, why I don't see you as a couple" "And you still called her Fuyumi, you should starting to call her on her first name from now on" "C'mon, Nagisa is not that hard to say" "Uhmmm, guys I think we should change the topic", said Fuyumi. "I'm done", said Hitoshi as he stand to leave carrying his tray.

"Chiasa and Bashira is not yet here!", said the teacher checking the attendance to start their first activity. "Suki! What happened to your roommates? Can you go and call them out?" "Suki has been sleeping with us teacher. She's afraid that Chiasa and Bashira will get back at her when no one is around so we let her stay in our room!", said Sana. "Uh… okay. Then can somebody go and call them, tell them that their punishment is done so they are allowed to go out of there room already. I hoped they reflected on their actions" "Teacher!", Alliya raised her hand to volunteer in calling those two that seems no one like to do it. "Okay Alliya, thank you for volunteering. You can go now and call them"

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" The teacher went to the direction where the scream is coming from inside the house and the other students followed lead by Hitoshi, Fuyumi and Kazumi. Alliya's face was pale and sweating a lot. Bashiro and Chiasa are bathing on their own blood lying on the floor with their eyes still opened with their mouth like they are shocked. Upon seeing the corpses, the teacher stopped the students from entering the room. "Whoever did this, it is horrible", said Kazumi. The teacher is still in shock when he turned his attention to Kazumi, Fuyumi and Hitoshi. "How did you get in? I closed the door" Instead of answering him back, Kazumi went near to examine the corpses.

"They were stabbed countless times. In the stomach and in the heart. Their head was even got hit by something hard, the killer can't get enough and to make sure that they are really dead, the killer stabbed them so many times. Look, their intestines are already out of their body and even their heart" said Kazumi touching those organs with his bare hands. Fuyumi can't take it anymore seeing this kind of things in person for the first time in her life. "She went to the nearest window to take out what she just had for breakfast while Hitoshi is petting her back. "Why there is no signal in here", said the teacher raising his phone looking for signal. "Do your phones have a signal?", asked to the three students. "You confiscated our phones", answered Hitoshi. "Ah, oh yah. Hitoshi why don't you go and get your phones on my room beside the stairs. The box placed in the table beside the bed" Hitoshi went immediately to get their phones.

The other class 2 -D students are gathered on the living room with the care taker and the two house cooks. "What will happen to us now?" "This is just like what I have watched in the horror movie. One class went to the field trip and died one by one" "Stop it!. We're already scared here" "So do you mean, someone among us is the killer?" "Obviously, that man is the killer" (pointing to the old hunchback care taker) "Hey kids, stop it. I know that we are all afraid in here but don't go on accusing people", said the female cook. "He's wearing that creepy face all this time since we arrived in here. Who do you think will believe that he is not the one behind of all these things, maybe he is also the one who did that prank on our first day in here. What a great idea to welcome us all here" "It is true that my husband receives all those kinds of assault but I am telling you that he is far more than a kind man you can think", answered again the female cook. "So they're couple, I thought her husband is the male cook, they look good together though", one female student whispered to her friend. "Maybe you're an accomplice that is why you are telling us that, to get you of the rope and make us trust you to take a chance to choke all of us to death" "Enough already, stop saying things without an evidence" "Sometimes, the people go on accusing people so eagerly are the real suspect" "So you're telling me that I'm the killer now. He, this is funny" "Why can' you just shut your mouth up for a moment!" "We are all victims here. We don't know if the one who did this is also the one responsible in all the killings happened in our class" "Why do you need to think who the killer is, isn't it pretty obvious that, that old hunchback is the one who will kill us all and maybe he had his wife as an accomplice"(pointing at the old hunchback care taker) "We should eliminate them before they can kill anyone of us again" "Stop it, they are innocent okay. We just dragged them into our own mess. No one is going to eliminate anybody" When suddenly, a knife with a fresh blood on it dropped on the floor from the caretaker's pocket. Everyone stopped from arguing and their eyes widened. The girls in the class starts to scream. The whole class starts to grab their own weapon and attack the old hunchback care taker. The male cook grab the female cook's hand and run away leaving her husband behind. "N…no… this is not what you think for. It is a pig's blood. I am helping them in butchering the pig for your dinner tonight", he explained and yet the students didn't listen.

"All the phone doesn't have a signal and half of them are out of battery", said Hitoshi after checking all the phones. "We shouldn't stay here anymore, it is too dangerous to all of us", said the teacher. "But how are we going to leave? The service will come back to get us two days from now", said Kazumi. "So… are we stay here and wait for two more days?", Fuyumi asked. "No, we should have a plan. Let us go first where everyone else and think how are we going to leave", said the teacher. "How about these bodies, are we just going to leave them here?" "I'd like to bring them with us to tell their family but I don't think we are able to that. We'll bury them in the backyard"

Hitoshi went to call everyone in but no one is in the house except for the dead old hunchback care taker's body. "Hitoshi, where are everyone?", asked Fuyumi approaching him. At the moment, upon seeing the old man's body, she knew that this is not the trip she wished for and she knew that their lives are hanging on the cliff. "We should find them before it gets dark"

"Why are so calm in a situation like this, your classmates just died", asked the teacher to Kazumi. "Oh I forgot you are Miss Honda' replacement. You are new so you don't know everything. We already got this a lot, our classmates are dying one by one because of me" "Why because of you. Are you the killer?" "Of course not! The killer is after me. I don't know why but the people around me are keeps on dying ever since I was in my old school. I thought transferring schools will change anything but it still follows and killing all of my classmates" "Maybe it was just a coincidence, it is not you who the killer is after, he should've killed you from the start if that is the case and yet, you're still alive. Why would he kill people around you if he can go to you" "Then how can you explained all of these things. I already know who the killer is, the first time I saw him entered into the room, I knew it. Those smiles are the smile of a devil" "So is it Suki again" "Huh?" "Why are you keep on accusing innocent people to this mess. No one wants this to happen, even Suki" "Suki is the one who did the pranking and the one who did the killing is Hitoshi. Who knows they might be working together playing us around" "Stop with this nonsense Kazumi, I will talk to your parents once we go back" "But teacher—"

"Hitoshi, Suki went into the woods and she's still not coming back", said one of their classmate approaching Hitoshi and Fuyumi. "What are she's doing there?" "We are chasing those two cooks when she followed them there and it is already getting dark and yet she's still there, who knows what might happened to her there with those two killers" "Killers?!" "We just found out that the female cook and the old care taker is a couple and they are the one doing the killing" "So you guys are the one who did this", Hitoshi pointing the dead care taker. "It is so bad that his wife runaway" "Idiot! He is not the one who did this, either the blood on the bed. It was Suki's doing. She's playing with us" "Huh?! Suki?! Why would she do that?" "I don't know either, but for now stay here and wait for the others. I will go and find her" said Hitoshi as he run outside.

"Suki!!! Suki!!! Suki!!! Come out now, if this is again a part of your game, it is not funny anymore. You better come out now before it gets too dark in here! Suki!!!" Hitoshi almost had a heart attack when Suki appeared in front of him suddenly breathing so hard and very tired. Her clothes are all dirty and her hair was a mess. "What happened to you?!" "Guess what I have just found out. The male and the female cook are having an affair. She's betraying her husband so she let him died there" "Enough already, we all know that it was your doing, you might also the one who killed those two" "No! I admit that I am the one who framed them up into the bloody bed prank but I won't go that low to the point that I will kill them. I didn't kill them, even Fuyumi knows that" "Fuyumi?!" "Hmm, she knew it all along, I will never do such a thing. Didn't she told you about our conversation?" "What conversation?" "When she went to get the evidence in her room, she took so long right? Because we talked to each other. I told her what I know and what I want, she knew everything but I wonder why she didn't tell you about it" "What are you talking about? You have scratches on your arms and legs, we should go back and treat those" "You don't believe me, don't you", Suki asked Hitoshi while he's upholding her to walk. "I just find it hard to believe your words already after what happened" "Well, I can't blame you. You don't even want Fuyumi's name to be involve in me, she's your girl after all" Hitoshi stopped for a while and stare at Suki's face. "How'd—" "How did I know? I heard it this morning during breakfast. If I were her, I will also fall for you. It is too bad that she got you first" "It is also getting cold, we should hurry up" "Do you hate me right? Then why would you save me, you should have left me to die on the woods, that is much better" "Why would I do that if I know that I have a courage to save you" "Because I am Suki, the one who's been playing with all of you" "I don't know know why you are doing this but one thing is I am sure, I won't let anyone died again" "Are you playing with me? You are the killer… right?"

"Is it true?", that was the first question that welcomes Suki when they get back to the house. Hitoshi let her sit and rest to the sofa in front of everyone. "Answer us Suki, is it true that you are the one behind the pranking and not Chiasa and Bashira" "Fuyumi told us everything" "So you believe on that bitch rather than me? I am the victim here guys, they are just pointing their own doings to me" "Fuyumi would never do that" "How will you know, she might be a wolf hiding into a sheep's skin" "You are the one hiding into a sheep's skin" "Enough already, we found the food coloring you used to make a fake blood" "Maybe you are also the one who killed Chiasa and Bashira" "So all this time, those two are telling the truth and we refuse to believe them?" "We killed an innocent man because of you" Hitoshi and Fuyumi met their eyes but Fuyumi turned around "So this is your game, then we will show you how it is played"