"How I waited for so long on this video shooting workshop project!. The script was already encrypted in my mind from the very first hour it was given to me, now it's here!". The excited Sheena said merrily.
Hanna was busy eyeing a taxi cab.
" Hey, Hanna! Are you listening?!" Sheena asked, a bit annoyed..realizing that she was just alone talking to herself.
Sheena and Hannah, Mass Communication students of St.Claire University were going to the Hill Tower Building, where their group will going to shoot a video for a
video shooting workshop project.
"Yup! I heard you loud and clear. Haha! Be ready and please check the things, the taxi is coming." Hanna replied with a big laugh, upon hearing Sheena's irritated voice.
"Mister.. to the Hill Tower building please!." Hanna instructed the driver.
Another passenger seated at the front looked at them in the mirror and said:
"Hill Tower Building...the famous..the unforgettable.."
"This is going to be our first time entering that building, but we need to wait for the business hours to be finished!." Hannah replied.
The man appeared to be wondering and asked interestingly " Working there in the evening time? Seriously?!."
"Is there anything wrong if we work there in the evening?!." Sheena asked.
"Ladies here we are!." The driver said Sheena paid the fare and said, "Thank you!."
They didn't hear what the other passenger replied, and as they saw their other classmates wave at them at the building entrance they got distracted.
"Everybody here?." Asked Mr. Adamson, their professor.*
"Yes sir!" Sheena replied.
"Okay, so headcount..1,3 7..so we are 8, okay.. okay..go ahead, register your name at the front desk under St.Claire University, Destination- 12th floor." Mr. Adamson said.
At the Frontdesk..
"Good afternoon! We are students from St.Claire University and we have a reservation for the 12th floor." Sheena told the front desk staff.
The staff checked the logbook and said, "I'm sorry, but the 12th floor is not available this evening because of the ongoing seminar being held there and it will be extended till 9 PM as per order by the building administrator."
"What?! But our professor made some reservations for the place!." Exclaimed Sheena.
"Hey, guys, done with the registration?." Mr. Adamson asked while approaching the group.
"We have a problem, sir, the 12th floor is occupied!." Sheena replied.*
*"How come?!, okay please wait here." Replied Mr.Adamson and walked toward the front desk.
After a while..
"Students listen..the meeting on the 12th floor has been extended for another 2 hours, it is not good to wait and work so late here, so we just occupy the lobby room on the 13th floor..come on!" Mr. Adamson said and headed in front of the elevator.
As the elevator door opened, they all entered, but when they were about to close it the Janitress walked fastly and said "Wait!" and then entered the elevator.
Somebody pushed the button and started to move up, but one of them pressed the emergency stop button and shouted, “You will all do as I say, those who are going to the 13th floor!." everybody was surprised, it was the Janitress.
"Hey, what is this all about?" Mr. Adamson asked the Janitress.
"Listen, everybody, and please follow, this is for your good." The janitress said.
So the Janitress and the group talked seriously, and each had its different reactions, some of them nodded, some seemed so skeptical, and some stared at her seriously including Sheena, who felt so uneasy at that time.
"Don't forget my advice, to avoid unwanted things from occurring." the Janitress told them before she walked away, and in a minute, nowhere to be found.
"Wow! Challenging!" Rylie said.
The group felt uncomfortable, but they still entered the lobby room on the the13th floor and arranged everything.
The room looked so good, but the silence was extraordinary. The Janitress's words were still fresh in Sheena's disturbed mind and its sudden disappearance as it reached the wall. "That was Impossible, am I dreaming?" Asked herself.
In the first 2 hours, everything went smoothly.
Around 10 PM, when they were about to finish the video shooting, some strange things started to arise.
They heard fading noises of people, some felt as if eyes were watching over them, but nobody else was around. Hanna has seen a shadow of a lady but the physical body was nowhere to be found.
Sheena glanced at the table at her side, she was terrified, when she saw the pieces of stones on a wooden bowl, closed her eyes for a moment, and fastly walked away.
All of them felt like something strange was there..but kept silent.
After the shoot, nobody talked..carefully placed all things and props into their boxes and left the lobby room, each of them looked so pale and skin so cold. They hurriedly entered the elevator room and as it started to move down, each of them felt a big relief.
Each remembered the Janitress has told them.
"Nobody uses the 13th floor in the evening time, please listen very carefully.
The lobby room is occupied by unknown creatures, and getting active in the evening time, leave the room before 10 PM, they live in the stones inside the bowl, each stone has a creature on it, they are harmless if you will not disturb them, those stones have good and bad luck, never dare to touch, because if by chance, you touch the stone with the bad power, this will get your life, and imprison your soul inside the stone. Some things exist mysteriously, be kind to them, and they will be kind to you, respect them and they will respect you."*
Rylie was secretly smiling, with the stone in his pocket that he found in the lobby room.. when suddenly, the elevator stopped and the light off..followed by a...
" AaaahhhhhHHHHHHH!!!!" Horrible screams inside the elevator.
-THE END-
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