It was finally Sunday, the day of rest for many people.
Light footsteps were heard going upto the fourth and the last floor. The door opened with a creak and it was all dusty with spider-webs with faint light falling onto a box.
Ye Muchen was greeted by a spider falling from the ceiling, parallel to his mouth. "AHHHH!" Shrieked Ye Muchen. He fell down on his butt and his BP (blood pressure) was up till 120. "Ouch!"
He got up again, avoiding the spider and turned on his flashlight. He started looking for a switch for the lights because it was too dark to see anything.
*Click*
The sound of the light switch echoed throughout the room. "It seems…this place has been abandoned for a few years. I am surprised the light works." Ye Muchen continued to talking to himself. It was quite a spacious floor with a few doors leading somewhere Ye Muchen did not know.
Ye Muchen walked towards one of the doors, jumping and dodging the boxes and the little spidey webs dropping from the ceiling. Muchen reached the door labeled
'MEETING ROOM'
Ye Muchen turned around and saw the other doors' labels.
'PRINTER ROOM'
' MANAGER'S OFFICE'
'MARKETERS' OFFICE'
'CHECK- IN'
'PAYMENT STATION'
'BREAK ROOM'
There were so many rooms. The things written on the doors suggested that this building or just this floor could have been an office in the past. Ye Muchen turned around to face the door. He took a long deep breathe and he held the doorknob.
Ye Muchen twisted the knob to the right and the door opened with a creek. The room had plenty of windows, allowing light inside the room. There were a few chairs, some which were broken and some which were fallen or chewed up by some ants.
There was fungi all over the room, from the start if the walls till the ceiling. Although, there were some boxes just like outside of the room, they were less damaged. Ye Muchen went forward towards one of the boxes labeled 'FRAGILE BELONGINGS' .
Muchen bent down and opened the box slowly, one piece of cardboard followed by another piece.
*SQUEAK*
A loud squeak was heard from one of the other rooms near the one with Ye Muchen. But he thought it might be on his head.
His blood froze, his heart stopped beating, his veins, arteries and capillaries stopped working. His brain just shut off like a switch.
After a good six minutes of staying still, Ye Muchen finally got the courage to move and check behind him. Muchen stood up extremely slowly and turned behind...
"Huh? There's nothing here."
Ye Muchen turned behind and bent down just to find a squirrel inside the box he had opened.
The squirrel titlted it's head sideways looking at the human which is 10 times it's size and quickly got out of the box and ran away. "AAHHHH!" Shrieked Ye Muchen. "HELP!" He screamed again and while trying to run, he fell on his butt again. "OUCH! THAT HURTS."
By this time, Ye Muchen had already seen enough. He decided to come back with another person later, or just abandon this place like it was meant to be.
"This place, really is haunted. No wonder they abandoned it."
Muchen closed the door and went downstairs all the way to the first floor with all the desktops. He let out a sigh and shook his head. "Should I be doing this? Maybe it's too big of a step."
He sighed and went to the basement, back to his room. Ye Muchen sat on his bed quietly, staring into a plain wall. "I miss my team, life was good back then."
All of a sudden, his alarm rang scaring the living soul out of him. He bounced up his bed screaming, and as he stood up to run he slipped on one of his shirts lying on the floor and smacked his face into the wall.
"Shoot! That hurts. I think my ankle-"
-Famous last words.
"So what did you do?" Asked the doctor. "I slipped..." Said Ye Muchen. "Then I slipped and my face hit the wall which has a slight dent in it now." He continued, after a long pause.
Ye Muchen let out a loud screech due to the pain. "Just a little bit more...and you are done." Said the doctor.
"You will need to use the crutches till I say so. Since you only have a mild sprain, at most it would take anywhere between 1-3 weeks to heal, so come back after three weeks. As for your face, just apply the ointment after brushing and before going to bed." The doctor continued.
"Great. Can I go now?" Asked Ye Muchen. The doctor went a step behind and nodded. "Damn it! Stupid, stupid alarm clock." Ye Muchen said to himself.
"You did such a good job, I am so proud of you." Said Li Huan sarcastically. "Crutches, huh. Cool."
"I know, I know. Stop teasing me." Said Muchen. "It was an alarm clock. I wonder how you were the captain of our team." Li Huan said jokingly. Ye Muchen could not help but sigh at his stupid mistake.
They both reached the car and sat. "Where to?" Asked Li Huan. "Where I work, live, breathe, eat, you know, the usual place." Replied Ye Muchen in a cheery voice. "You know, I was actually thinking we could go together and look at the haunted floor." Said Mei na.
"It's not haunted, but sure we could check out the fourth floor."
Li Huan said excitedly, "Nice. Let's go."
"Tomorrow." Completed Ye Muchen. The smile on her face dropped and she looked at Ye Muchen in the most disgusting way ever known to man.
After a minute of awkward silence and Li Huan just staring at her so-called friend she said, "Who do you think paid your hospital bills huh? Who do you think gave you the idea of dorm rooms? Who would have saved you that day if it weren't for your stupid curiosity to know if fire actually burnt you?"
"Hey!" Said Ye Muchen. "I was a little kid." Li Huan rolled her eyes. "So was I, yet I still had more brains than you."
"Also, you did not really save me. I had to go to the hospital anyways" Said Muchen. "I held your pant, but it-"
Ye Muchen quickly shut Li Huan's mouth before she could say anything more.
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