STORY..... A Ghost In School

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"Hey Tade, get up and let's go to school," I gently
shook my Friend, trying to wake him up from his deep
slumber.
Tade turned and opened his eyes to give me an angry
look. I stood up from where I was squatting after
believing I had succeeded in waking him. I glanced at
the wall clock, it was ten thirty already. "Oya stand
up now, dem go soon lock school gate" I continued in
pidgin English, the lingua franca of students in Nigerian
institutions. I began to walk towards the door when I
saw him stretching and turning.
A loud sound made me turn back, my friend was back
to his slumber and was snoring loudly again. I walked
back to him and shook him violently this time. "Guy,
stand up now." I shouted in anger. "You would fail
Maths 201 if you continue like this," I threatened.
And that was it, Tade sprung up to his feet
immediately, he never liked to hear anything about
failure.
"Okay, I'm ready." he said to me, after getting up from
the bed and rubbing his eyes with his palm.
"Where are your books?" I asked him.
"Books? Oh!" He exclaimed, remembering that he was
going to need his books to read in school. He quickly
walked towards his carton of books and took out a
textbook, a notebook and a calculator.
Ten minutes later, we were in the school premises
already. We exchange pleasantries with other students
that were going their separate ways, we headed for the
Institute Of Technology.
"See," Tade halted and said in a loud voice as we
passed the Boundary line separating the institute from
the rest of the school. "Let me tell you the truth, I
don't feel like reading in school today." He said.
"Why?" I asked him, surprised. Earlier that day, he had
been the one pleading with me to come pick him up
when I was going for night classes, telling me to do
everything to wake him up in case he does respond to
me quickly.
"I had a bad dream," he answered.
"Bad dream?" I asked.
"Yes, just this night before you came to my room."
Tade said.
"Okay, what was the dream all about?"
"It was all about night class today," he began to
narrate. "I dreamt that some bad boys attacked
everyone in school and stole all our phones, they even
molested some of our girls."
I hissed and shook my head at Tade. "How on earth
will bad boys enter and steal from thousands of
students in this premises?" I asked him with a tone of
doubt.
"The bad boys were much, numbering up to fifty with
guns and machetes." He replied me.
"They can never get into the school premises with
guns and machetes," I opposed strongly. "How would
they pass through all the new security blocks and
officials?"
Tade stood still, unable to answer my question but I
could still see fear and indecision in his eyes.
"Let's go," I encourage, patting him on the shoulder.
"Or you want to fail Maths 201?"
Tade immediately began to march forward with me,
remembering how poor at mathematics he was and
how he needed someone to teach him how to solve
some problems which were likely to appear in the exam
questions.
We proceeded straight to the drawing theatre which
had a lesser number of students than the other halls.
We greeted the other students met in the hall by
waving silently and they also waved back, everybody
was in a serious mood, so there was no time for
socializing with each other.
I and Tade settled down and went straight to business.
Fifteen minutes later, I could feel Tade's eyes on me,
expecting the moment I'll take a pause and he would
be able to ask one of his numerous questions. But I
wasn't ready to pause yet, it was too early to do so.
Though I planned to assist him, I ignored him for the
moment.
"Tade, how far na?" Somebody hailed as he walked into
the drawing studio from the other door.
Tade and I looked up, it was Sheriff, our very good
friend who was also good at mathematics. Tade
smiled, he had seen someone who could rescue him
quickly from his dilemma.
"Oyin, how far?" Sheriff also greeted me after shaking
hands with Tade.
"Sheriff, I've been looking for you since," Tade began
immediately. "I want you to explain some of these
problems to me."
"Wow! Tade, but I've always told you to always bring
these questions earlier, preferably before the
examination week and not the night before the exam
date." Sheriff reprimanded.
However, Sheriff agreed to help him with the condition
that it'll only be for thirty minutes, they began
immediately. Everything was going fine, until the lights
suddenly went off.
"Ooh!" We could hear people complain bitterly, cursing
and raining insults on PHCN.
We waited several minutes for the school's solar
backup energy to power on the bulbs but after ten
minutes, the lights refused to come on, the murmuring
in the hall and outside began to increase rapidly. Most
of the students including I, Tade and Sheriff were no
longer used to bringing our rechargeable lamps to
night class anymore as the solar energy electricity
generator installed by the department of Electrical
Engineering always came to our rescue whenever
PHCN seized power. I had no option than to continue
reading with my phone's flashlight. Tade and other
students who had phones with flashlight followed my
example. A whole lot of other students just placed
their heads on the table and slept off.
The weather changed drastically and the winds began
to rush in angrily through the open windows, our books
and rough papers began to fly around. We could hear
thunder strike and see the lightening in the sky. This
was strange because we were in January and the
season was harmattan, so nobody was expecting rain
especially one which would come with this kind of
wind.
Students got up from their seats and began to close
the windows but the winds were still blowing and even
with greater tenacity.
The lights came on suddenly but went off again in less
than five seconds. It repeated the process thrice and
at the third time, three of the bulbs in the Hall dropped
to the ground, two of them landed where students were
and injured them. At the same time, a loud strange
noise resembling the sounds made by wild animals
echoed round the whole school. Before I knew it,
students were scampering all around.
I looked at my side and found only Tade's books and
one leg of his sandals, the drawing studio was already
empty of students except for me who was still there,
trying to grasp what was happening. The noise had
greatly increased, it was as if a battalion of soldiers
were running on the battle field.
I got up and walked out of the drawing studio, the
whole school had been thrown into disorder, crowds of
students were scampering out of institute and then
school.
Instead of joining them, I went back into the hall, I
can't even tell myself which force was giving me the
confidence I had that day. I gently packed my books
and calculator, I packed Tade's books too, I wanted to
help him take his sandal but the load would be too
much for me, so I took only his books and walked out.
I walked carefully trying not to get hit by those running
out. This time, it had began to drizzle. Instead of going
towards the exit gate, I began to move towards the
place where the strange sounds were coming from.
It was the Electrical Engineering Lab, the only place
where I could see light in the school, the huge doors
were opened and that was unusual at that time of the
night. The noise increased and I had to cover my ears
as I got closer to the lab. I could feel the heat
emanating from inside as I got to the entrance. All the
bulbs in the lab were on and there was fire at the end
of the lab.
As I wanted to turn back, I heard someone's scream. I
looked back inside and saw a girl crawling out behind a
machine, she looked badly injured, her clothes were
torn and hair ruffled. I quickly dropped the books and
entered into the lab with finger placed in my ears to
prevent the noise from hurting me.
As I got closer to the girl, I noticed that part of her
right arm had been cut off and she was bleeding
profusely. I had choice than to take out my fingers
from my ears and lift her up to my shoulder. Luckily for
her and myself, she was a person of light weight, I
hurried out of the lab immediately. I didn't bother to go
towards the school clinic as I knew I would not find a
bird there. I quickly walked out of the institute and
proceeded towards the school security post where I
would find a vehicle to rush the girl to an hospital. I
met some of the security officials already coming
towards our direction. They had their torchlights on.
"She needs to get to the hospital now," I shouted on
top of my voice. Two out of the security officials
turned back and ran to get the vehicle, the others
continued to walk into the institute while one stopped
to help me. When he saw that the girl was bleeding so
much and that my clothes were already stained with
her blood, he didn't bother to take her from me, he
only began to lead me towards the place where the
two others had gone to get the vehicle.
The ambulance came and the girl was dropped inside,
the officials quickly drove her to the General Hospital
which was only five minutes drive from our school.
I walked out of the school, greatly stained with blood
wondering why I did not bother to apply my knowledge
of first aid before lifting the girl to my shoulder. Then I
remembered that the noise in the lab wouldn't have
even given me the opportunity to think. The rains came
down heavier and heavier.
The next day, I arrived school at exactly five minutes to
eight. From the road leading to the school's main gate
was where I began to see and hear clusters of students
discussing how a ghost came into the school the last
night and tormented all those that had come to read at
night. I also saw that part of the school's gate was
damaged already, I heard that some students had
damaged it while trying to rush out. Parts of the school
fences where also broken.
Today is exactly seven months after, I've come back to
school to collect my National Diploma Certificate. Here
is Maria sitting with me, her left arm has been
amputated. She's thanking me for helping her that day
and telling me the story of how she and her friends
attempted to steal something from the lab, someone
had pushed a button and everything had gone wrong. In
their attempt to bring order, they kept on doing the
wrong things until the machines began to work
abnormally and make strange sounds. One of the
machines had hooked her cloth and arm and on seeing
this, her friends fled the lab in confusion and fear,
leaving her behind.
Till today, it is still widely believed in my school that a
ghost had once visited them at night.
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