Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 - 2017 | Page 246

to those with powers and wait for them to tell the world and the spirit itself who the killer is. And yes, you will need to
find and reveal the person who killed me to the entire world until I can be free.”
A few days later…
Shane couldn’t go back to school after what had happened. He had to spend a few days to himself, he had also
made a new friend named Tom. They became good friends immediately AND Tom also went to his school so they
planned to hang out.
The next day…
It was Shane’s first day after what happened and he was feeling nervous about coming back to school. He was
walking up the stairs of the school and saw Tom. But something was off, Tom was hiding behind the car of their teacher
and was mumbling to himself, he had morning bed hair and he had black circles under his eyes. Shane thought he was
having a bad day, but to Shane’s surprise, Tom was the same the next day. And the next day and the rest of the week.
It was a normal day at school until an announcement came, all students were required to go to the assembly hall.
“They never use the assembly hall for announcements…” mumbled Shane. “ We will have to unfortunately, close the
school down for personal reasons. ” said the local guards. Everyone was curious why the school closed down and the
corridors were hustling and bustling with the eager students to leave school. Everyone was excited for the day off, and
to the student's excitement, the school contacted the students that the school would be closed down for the week.
Shane was starting to become suspicious of what was happening in the school. But soon later, bad news came in.
According to the newspaper, there had been a murder at the school and the victim was the principal.
The school was open again, Shane was curious, again. So he gathered up the courage and stayed at the school until
all the teachers left. He thought that he could find clues to find out who is the murderer and also at the same time
investigate TJ’s killer too. “Since TJ’s body was found in the principal’s office AND the principal was recently found
dead in that same office. I should go there first to investigate”. thought Shane. He checked the hallways to see if
anyone was around. The hallway was empty, so he strolled through the hallways and headed to the principal’s office.
What he saw shocked him. It was the principal. He wasn’t dead, He was standing next to his desk. On the phone, talking
with someone. He was talking really fast as if he was really nervous about something. Shane tried to listen in to the
convers