"Are you trying to scare us?" Talon asked
The twins suddenly looked frightened.
"There are lots of ghosts in the Gemini house. Sometimes, we hear them cry in the night. It's a really scary sound"
Fina leaned in closer to them.
"These ghosts…what do they sound like?"
The twins stared at her for a while, debating whether to tell or not.
"They sound horrifying. Like they were murdered unjustly. Scared, pitiful and sometimes anger"
Talon, Fina and Zora glanced at each other.
The twins' hands were shaking now.
"Do you remember when Mr Walker said we won't be in danger if we don't put our nose where it doesn't belong?"
"It's a warning" Fina said
"Last night, one of the Geminis senior was murdered.
Talon fell off his chair while Fina and Zora blinked in disbelief.
"Are you trying to scare us?" Zora asked shakily
"Not at all. They said it was strong magic. That it was accidental. Her twin was devastated. We don't know much"
Talon righted himself.
"We should go"
"Wait. Why did you tell us about it?" Fina asked suspiciously.
The twins beamed at her.
"We got you. That was a joke" They said and walked away.
"Well, that's borderline creepy" Talon said
They studied more until Fina gave in to her yawns.
She met herself in one of the dark corridors of Elfina where she saw the ghostly figure. She walked into the corridor and the cheery and light feeling of Elfina descended into a dark and gloomy one. It was eerily silent but she kept walking.
Fina....
The voice called again.
Fina moved deep into the darkness and the ghostly form appeared again. Then, with a blink of the eye disappeared into the darkness.
Fina heard a scream and ran towards the voice, almost tripping on her feet in a hurry to save the person. As she came into view with the victim, she froze on her spot.
There hanged a very large spider on the ceiling spinning a student into a cocoon. The student body stopped moving and became perfectly still in the giant spider web.
Then, the giant spider turned its beady eyes at Fina and surged forward in extreme fury.
Fina gasped for breath as she came back to reality. Talon and Zora have also fallen asleep beside her and there was no longer anyone in the library.
She stood carefully, not wanting to wake Zora and Talon and walked to the spiraling shelves.
Fina...…..
She moved back to their table and took her wand preparing herself for anything that could happen then walked back to the shelves.
Her fingers streamed through books after books absently until it touched a rough leather book. Fina pulled the book out from the shelf and looked at it. The book was hidden so well that no one could find it easily.
It was old, the cover worn out and extremely dusty. She found it odd that an old book was found in the midst of all the new books. Every books on the shelves were completely new.
Fina put it back and turned to go back to their table but stopped suddenly when she heard her name again.
Fina...…...
She turned back to the shelves and placed her ear close to it but nothing happened.
Then, she looked in front of her and saw the hidden old leather book there .
Fina picked it up again and wiped the dust from it.
It was a diary. An old diary from…
Carly Brooklyn