Salina got into the hallway and stared into the darkness of the hallway.  Denny and George are following behind, almost unable to stand because of the shaking in their legs.  The walked to the middle of the hallway.  Suddenly, all the lights in the hospital turned on. 

            The hospital floors were full of pieces of wood, fallen from ceilings, the paint on the walls were peeling and some parts of the wall was broken.  Doors were barely hanging on to its hinges and the furniture was broken, old and rusty.  There was a stench of dust and it smelled damp.  The whole building was falling apart.

            Salina turned around to face the two scared boys.

            “You guys, don’t be scared. The lights are on, geez. Ghosts don’t appear in light!” Salina said.

            George looked up, feeling a less scared after hearing that.  He looked up into a missing tile in the ceiling behind Salina.  It was pitch black in there.  Then, a wave of long black hair came dangling out from it.  It got longer and longer and soon, a head showed up.  The face was pale and ghostly. Soon, the arms were visible too.

            “Sa…sa…sa…lina! SHE’S THERE! CEILING! OH MY FUCKIN GOD!” George yelled and ran behind Denny.

            “Ahh!” Salina screamed after hearing that.

            She looked up behind.  Nobody was there.

            “Shit George! Don’t scare me!” she said.

            “Wha? She was there. I swear!” George said.

            “Come on, it’s your imagination.  Let’s keep moving.” Salina assured George.

            The trio kept moving down the hall and turned right.  As they passed by the hospital rooms, Denny noticed in the corner of his eye that every room had a pale, white figure standing.  However, he was afraid to speak of it or even turn to confirm what he thinks he’s seeing.

            “Hey, have you noticed that there’s a pale figure standing in every room?” Salina asked.

            “Oh my god, it’s not my imagination…” Denny said in a shaky voice.

            “I’m scared…” George said with tears in his eyes.

            A door squeaked open.  A glass jar full of organs were sliding out of the slim crack in the door. 

            “AHHHHHH!” the trio screamed.

            They ran back to the hallway.  Denny tripped.

            “Don’t leave me behind!” Denny yelled.

            Salina went back to help him.   George stood there frozen, unable to move.  Suddenly, he felt something in his hands.  It felt smooth and cold.  He looked down and he saw that the same jar that slid out the door was now in his hand!

            “AHHHHH! FUCK!” George screamed and threw the glass jar into the ground, exposing the organs into the damp air.

            Salina and Denny looked back.

            “How did that get there?” Salina asked nervously.

            “It just did! FUCK! I gotta get outta here!” George said as he started to walk towards the door. 

            “Don’t leave us behind, you jackass! You mofo! I have the keys! Where u gonna go, straight to Toshi?!” Salina shouted.

            “What the fuck? I ain’t staying here to die! Come on, get up and walk faster!” George said.

            Then out of nowhere, they heard the familiar ring tone.  It came from a room to the left of George.  George nervously turned to his left.  There, he saw his cell phone, lying in a pile of squishy, wormy organs. 

            George’s eyes widened, he stumbled two steps back.  The tune, replaying in his mind over and over again, forever etching it into his mind. 

            Salina and Denny frozed, too scared to move after George’s reaction.

            Meanwhile, I got to the parking lot of the hospital. I parked the car in a safe place and made sure to lock the car.  I grabbed a gun I found in Jake’s car and bursted into the hospital through the entrance door.

I ran down the hall and turned right.  I saw them. 

            “DON’T WORRY GUYS! I’LL SAVE YOU!!!!” I screamed.

            “AHHHHHHHHHHHH! TOSHIO!!!!!!” the screamed out.

            George was sitting on the ground, his back hard against the wall and his face showed fear.  I’ve never seen him like that before.  Salina and Denny’s face were similar.  They recognized me after the scream.

            “Vanessa, get out of here! Why are you here?  What are you doing? How did you find us?” Salina asked.

            “Can’t leave my crew behind, saving your butts and bugged your car.” I answered.  

            “You got your memory back?” Denny asked.   

            “That’s right, Jake bonked me on the head with a door! But never mind that, I’ll explain later. We gotta get out!” I quickly said.

            They nodded. 

            The ring tone played again.  I frozed.

            “George… I saw your phone on the kitchen beside my bag… That ring tone… your phone can’t be here…” I nervously said.

            “It’s there.” George said an pointed to the phone.

            “Let’s get out now.” I said with a rush of fear overcoming me.

            Salina and Denny ran and got George to stand up.  We all ran towards the door.  We got to the door and found the door chained shut. 

            “Fuck, this isn’t happening!” George shouted.  He tried to open the door, through the crack, a hand suddenly strikes out, grabbing George.

            “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! HELP ME!” George yelled.

            I checked the time. It was 10: 40.  It isn’t his time yet.  I reached over to George and grabbed him.  The hand released him.  We ran to other way, deeper into the hospital. 

            We ran down the hall again and turned right, however, it was as far as we got because in front of us, George saw Toshio.  We didn’t see anything but we listened to him.  We ran into a room behind us and locked ourselves in. 

            Salina started scrambling around the room trying to find a window or a vent that we might be able to get out of.  No opening was visible.  The ring tone sounded again.

            George started to panic. 

            I tripped over a stick on the ground and landed on a large box, closer to the entrance.  The lid popped open.

            “Ow! That’s hurts.” I looked up and screamed.

            “AHHHHHHHHHH! What is it? What!” Denny asked nervously. 

            I saw what was in the box.  It was a corpse.  It was moist, black and had many ridges.  The face was unrecognizable.  The mouth was wide open and I knew she was a she because her outfit was a causal dress and blouse.  She lied there.

            George suddenly approached.  The ring tone stopped.

            “Do you think that’s what we’re here for?  To find the corpse? Toshio wanted to be found?” George asked.

            “Maybe.” I replied.

            “We’re safe. The ringtone stopped.” Salina said.

            I walked away from George and the corpse towards Salina and Denny.

            “I’m a little freaked out right now.” I said.

            “Me too.” Salina replied.

            “Same.” Denny added.

            George stood there staring. 

            “She must have been here for a long time.” he said.

            Suddenly, the corpse came to life and her hand grabbed George. 

            “Oh my god! FUCK! She’s alive!” George said, trying to get loose from her powerful grip.  He screamed in pain.

            We tried to help him.  But a powerful force pushed us back and we landed on the ground. 

            “GEORGE!” Salina screamed.

            “HELP ME!” Geoge shouted.

            The corpse got up.  I got up and shot at her.  It was no use.  She waved her hand at us and soon, we found ourselves outside the room.  All we could do was look through a window on the door.  The three of us tried to open the door but it was locked tight.  We started banging on the door.

            “Don’t worry.  Everyone has a different piece under the sky.” a familiar voice said.

            We turned around and saw Valiant and Jonny.

            “You’re alive…” Denny said.

            “No, we’re gone. But don’t worry about anything.  It’s all part of life man.” Jonny said.

            They vanished.

            We turned back around and saw George, sitting there frozen.  And just like the phone picture, the corned was really the edge of the window at the door and Toshio was visible, and George was there, his face just like the picture.  The corpse wrapped her hands around him and choked him to death.  George laid on the ground, lifeless.  The three of us knew it was over as the red ball of candy fell out of his mouth.  His eyes were wide open with tears falling out of them.  A wave of grief came over me and I started wondering about life.

            Another cell phone started to ring.  Denny’s felt a vibration coming from his pockets.  We stood there.  Denny slowly reached for his phone.  His message read:

 

One Missed Call

Friday May 3 10:50pm

You have one new message

 

            Denny opened the message and heard himself scream.  Then silence was heard. It’s 10: 49, only 1 minute to his demise. 

            “Denny, let’s run for the door.  We’ll bash it open.” I suggested.

            We all agreed and ran toward the hall.  As we were running, we heard cracking noises from the floor.  It felt like the floor would fall apart at any moment.  I lead the way, Salina following behind and then Denny.  We heard ourselves breathing hard, trying to get that rush of adrenaline in our system for that super human power to escape.

            Then we heard a loud crack, it sounded like the floor was receding.  We stood still and turned around.  Denny also stood still; he felt the floor beneath him begin to sink.

            “Oh shit.  The floor, looks like it’s falling apart.” Denny said.

            “Don’t move! The wood might break!” I said.

            “The floor will break either way!” Denny yelled with tears in his eyes.

            “Slowly walk over Denny!” Salina shouted back.

            Denny lifted his right foot.  A pale white hand came through the cracks and grabbed it.  It pulled him down, taking the floor with him.  We heard his screams all the way down, his voice sounding further and further away and stopped.  We heard a loud thud

            “DENNY!” I screamed.

            “Oh my god… Denny?” Salina said with a dried, squeaky voice.

            I walked to the edge of the large hole in the middle of the hallway and looked down.  There was now the friend we once knew, lying lifeless on the ground with blood surrounding his body.  He head cracked open and his arms and legs were bend in impossible ways.  Near his corpse was a ball of candy rolling around.  I quickly shut my eyes and turned around.  Salina, kneeling beside me, burned the images in her eyes.  She was shocked, her mouth wide opened.  Her face turned from pink to pale white.  She looked like a ghost. 

            The familiar ring tone sounded once again.  This time, it came from a source beside me.  I looked at Salina.

            “You didn’t…” I said with an uneven tone.

            Salina took the silver phone out of her pocket.  Her face filled with fear.  She opened the phone while it was ringing. 

            “You’re next,” a young girl’s voice said with an asian accent.  Then, the phone played her voice. It said, “I’ll be joining the rest now.”

            Salina looked at me and said, “I’m sorry.”

            She took off her Hello Kitty bag and handed it to me. 

            “Please take care of my kitty…” she said as tears streamed down her face.

            “Why? What if I’m after you?” I asked.

            “You won’t, remember, you don’t have a cell.” she replied trying to form a small smile.  I grabbed Salina’s phone and broke it in half.  I started to cry. 

            “This is crazy.  We gotta get out of here! Now!” I said as fast as I could.

            I grabbed her arm with one hand while the other was holding her kitty bag, but she stood still.

            “It’s too… late.” Salina said.  Blood started to stream out of her mouth.

            “What?” I said, confused.

            Behind her, a head popped up.  It was Toshio’s.  I let go of Salina’s arm and fell back, staring into her murderer’s face.  Salina fell over, falling onto her face with a sharp knife sticking out from her back.

            “Why?” I asked.

            Toshio held out her red phone and started to dial another number.  From my pocket, I took out the Jake’s gun.  I quickly shot it at the red phone. 

            “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” a high pitched scream let loose.