Midnight Shadows: A Haunted Camp's Dark Secret

ed by the arm of the blue team member. Ayan asked, "Is there a problem?" Instead of replying the boy raised his arms and tri

d to poke his head upstairs to check if anyone was there. He had just pulled straight and inhaled, when, he shivered violently as someone tapped him on the shoulder, he said, "Hush" without looking at the person, but someone tapped again, a bit harder this time. "I said be quiet….." he fell silent, as he looked around while saying this and what the, he thought. There was a hand being held suspended in the mid-air by an unseen being, the hand was red and was poised to grab his throat, it was opening and closing. "Oh, my Allah," the kid from the blue team said and tripped while backing towards the wall, pushing himself backward still and with his eyes turned to the hand. That was turning around with his movements, all the while creeping toward him. The bully kid stepped back into the wall, which was on the opposite side of the wall beside the doors of the study, and then covered his face. Then he shook and jumped badly, but despite that, he looked around his hands as someone commented, "Done already?" It was counsellor Yaseen and with him stood counsellor Asif "What has happened? You are looking dreadful" The child from the blue team looked around wildly, there was no one there now then he said "Those kids from the green team are in trouble" Without questioning him further counsellor Yaseen said, "Lead the way." *****Next second to Ashar's horror, beads of sweat began to form on Jasim's face. "Jasim," said Ashar, Jasim did not respond. "Jasim please stop it, you are scaring me now, what is it?" asked Ashar. Jasim raised a finger, without looking away, and pointed it to Ashar's right. Ashar saw that Jasim's wrist was shining with sweat and it was wavering a bit now. Following the pointed finger, Ashar also found the thing that Jasim had been looking at. A child stood there watching them, he had red eyes, but he was smiling and waving, the arm connected to the other hand however, was trailing outside the door. Blood drained from Ashar's face, he looked at Jasim who looked at Ashar, and then they both looked back at the apparition, however, before they even moved a muscle or filled in their lungs for screaming. They moved sideways and turned around as the door burst open with a loud noise, Mr. Asif, and Mr. Yaseen, followed by the bully child were striding into the room. Jasim straightened, shook his wet hair over his head, and said sweetly, "Good day" Both counsellors looked at the bully kid who was looking astonished and scratching his head now. Counsellor Yaseen asked, "What's going on?" Jasim said, "I think I would like to know about that as well" he was looking at the bully kid. Counsellor Yaseen asked, "Firstly, why are you both sweating Jasim? Secondly, look boys, this time is the third in a day that you have locked horns together but I can see behind that stare that something is bothering you, please tell us what really happened?" Jasim's shoulders sagged and he mumbled, "Okay, we saw a non-human being." There was silence. "What?" counsellor Yaseen asked, Jasim gave an appraising look to counsellor Yaseen and said, "You know the non-human beings who are residing here, it is not exactly a secret, and so you can stop pretending as though you have no idea what I am talking about." Counsellors Asif and Yaseen looked as though they were thinking over what to say next. *****However, at that, moment door into the cafeteria opened yet again and this time a child from the red team entered and said, "Counsellor I heard someone pleading in the entry hall, It was a child's voice and the voice sounded really scared." Counsellor Yaseen and Asif looked at each other and asked, "When was it?" The child before responding looked around at Jasim, Ashar, and a member of the blue team in surprise. Then said, "About five minutes ago I guess, I was in the study then, reading, and I heard running footsteps and then a child begging, I came out to check, but there was no one there." Counsellors Yaseen and Asif looked considerate and said, "Thank you, Sultan, that is responsible of you, we shall look into this instance in the meanwhile you may go upstairs and please sleep well." The kid left counsellor Yaseen said, "Okay, then what happened?" Jasim replied, "That's all. He has just run toward us and out of the cafeteria door and turning around we saw the being waving and smiling at us." Counsellor Yaseen and Asif looked at each other and then asked, "Have you ever considered anything other than scorning?" Jasim and Ashar together said, "That is what happened or at least we both saw." Counsellor Yaseen said, "Okay, it's getting late let's get on with this cleaning now, shall we?" *****With Ashar gone with Jasim, Daniyal, and Ayan decided to stay awake; Rayan was also sitting with his back resting at his bedstead but his head was nodding off. Ahmer, Yousuf, Saad, and Adil wer