Scary Stories: In the Dead of Night Part 2:

I reach my locker, unlock it with my key and put my bag inside, the lighter I travel the better. Then I close the locker and lock it again, the school bell rings to signal the end of morning tea and the start of second period, however I do not return to class. I don't really have any friends, I am a bit of a loner and quite frankly I don't really think the teachers care enough to try and search for me so why not just leave. It will give me complete freedom anyway to search for this building with no one else around, so I start walking towards the doorway to exit the Math building. As I reach the doorway a strange feeling surges through my body, one I have never felt before almost like there is something telling me to not do this, I ignore it and keep walking I have no idea where this building could be but if there was ever time to explore the school it is most certainly now. I start walking through the school central courtyard surrounded by other modernized buildings where classes are taking place, I try to keep my head and voice down as I pass them, whilst I don't think the teachers care I still need to be cautious. I stop and sit on a bench for a while trying to think where this building might be located, it can't be anywhere in the center of the school, I am always walking around there and have never seen it, so it must be on the outskirts. But which way would it be North, East, South, West I don't know. I think harder, it can't be north because the only places there are the Football and Rugby fields, I play there on the weekend. It can't be east, that is where the teachers and staff parking lot is nothing there but cars and concrete. So that leaves west or south, I have never gone west or south before, so which one will I try first. I decided to go west first on the basis that I know a lot of low socioeconomic homes are around that area, so if there is going to be an old building it would be there. I stand up from the bench and start walking west, with both nervous and excited energy pulsing through my body simultaneously, wonder what I will find there the building or maybe something else....

As I walk west I go past many other older looking buildings, none of them look as old as the one in the video but they are definitely less advanced then the ones in the center of the school. I see paintings drying on a racks outside the buildings, this must be the art block, I have never been much of an artist other than really good stick figures my drawing and painting abilities are below mediocre at best, I have always been more of a science guy instead. After passing two blocks of art buildings, I walk through a field with a Cricket pitch in the middle, they must use this in the summer for our amazing national Cricket team. After walking through the field, I end up in a parking lot, I assume this is where the players and spectators park when the games are on. Other than a older looking building, that appears to be the club room there is nothing but houses and streets for miles. Bugger dead end no scary old building here, I must have gone the wrong way I turn back and walk over the field again back towards the art block, I need to go south the building must surely be there. I make my way back to the courtyard, fortunately not being stopped once, in fact I don't think I have passed another living person on this little journey of mine, that's a bit strange usually I would pass other students doing work outside, office ladies, cleaners, teachers anyone but no not a single other soul. I continue walking south past the English blocks until I reach what looks like a mini Forest, with a creek down the bottom of the bank and a wooden bridge leading me over the creek and through the Forest. Okay this is strange now, I had no idea there was any nature around here let alone a mini Forest, surely I should have heard about this by now, but then again I have never gone south before. I take a deep breath in and start making my way across the bridge, it is rickety and not well designed, there are nails sticking out from some of the bridge planks on the bottom, but fortunately the bridge itself seems stable.

As I cross the bridge, I end up on a gravel path with trees all around, I cannot really see through the trees, this forest was way thicker than I expected. I follow the gravel path, looking all around me as I go, I am still in awe of the size of this forest especially since it is right next to our school. Even though I am in a forest I cannot see any signs of wildlife, no bugs, no birds, not even the faintest sign of any living creature. I continue walking down the path and come to a curve. I follow the curve around, it is actually quite big and it takes me a while to get round the curve. When I finally reach the end of the curve, I look forward at the end of the path there appears to be light, it is quite far away from me, but it is the first time I have seen light since I entered the forest. I walk towards the light and as I start getting closer I see the end of the path and a giant clearing, leading to somewhere. As I reach the light, I find myself leaving the forest and coming out into another field, however unlike the sports fields that I have been walking through all day, this one was covered in long grass that looks like it has not been mowed for decades. All around me there is nothing but more grass and a huge tree line, surrounding the grass like a large circle, in the distance I spot something, something huge, stagnant and completely out of place. I start walking closer to it and as I start to reach it I realize that it is the building from the video....

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