It was a rainy Thursday afternoon.

School had just finished for the day and so I made my way to the classroom we usually used for club activities. We were about 6 people in the room at that point; lots of the other members went home early to escape the rain.

Today we were going through various stories featuring schools because a group of 5 girls band together to make a theme for the next meeting. They were so excited and made use of the flashlight game to tell them, you know, the one in the first episode? Well the last person in the room is a ghost. It's kind of lost the appeal to me because I'm forewarned before most things surprise me...

They were just settling in when one of the club leaders came in. She waited for everyone to settle down before speaking.

"Before we start up, Hana-senpai just announced that Chiaki-chan, Ichigo-kun and I were nominated as the new leaders for the club next year since the original members," at this she shot me a glance "are graduating at the end of the year."

After a round of squealing and applauding we began. Most of the stories were the originals but the last one was ironically about the old school house.

With the last light in the room on her, she began her tale.

"This ones about the old school house. It was being demolished until the workers suddenly quit because of a curse. Many tragedies have happened there over the years, most famously a teacher who committed suicide, so when they decided to build the new school, they started tearing down the old one, but then, a mysterious accident injuring several people ended the demolition. Last year they started the demolition again to make way for a new gymnasium, but a truck driving by lost control and crashed there killing some students..."

"So scary!" one of the freshman said. She sounded so cheerful when she said it.

That's when the story took a weird twist, for me that is.

"But there's more. I heard this from an upperclassman... one night a student was walking past the old school when the temperature dropped to almost freezing and she saw an apparition through the window, crying tears of blood..."

Then her light clicked off with a final click.

"One"

"Two"

"Three"

"Four"

"Five"

"Six"

"...Seven"

A sense of calm came over me just as a deeper voice called out "Eight".

A few of the girls screamed. Wow does that hurt the ears!

The light came on revealing a young man with a charming smile snickering a bit.

"Sorry about that, I couldn't help myself!" he said cheerfully.

As I took him in I felt my throat clog with tears and my heart beating with relief.

The stranger was wearing a dark blue long-sleeved shirt and jeans. His eyes were warm and keen, taking in the people with considering glances.

He wasn't Naru, but he sure looked it.

It's Eugene.

"Its fine", said one of the girls giggling, I guess she noticed how good he looked.

"What year are you?" said another a few came to see him up close.

I stayed in my seat just getting control of my emotions. As I felt better, I heard him answer.

"I'm seventeen this year." He looked a bit surprised that someone was asking that question for some reason.

"So, you're a senior?" asked Chiaki, batting her eyelashes at him.

Gene's face dawned in understanding. "Oh! That's what you meant! I don't actually go to school here; my brother is speaking to the principal. He told me to pass by this room; he said I would find it interesting. So, you guys tell ghost stories?"

"Among other things", said Chiaki, she obviously takes her job as a future leader of the club seriously, "The club is basically separated in two; one for fictional ghost stories and one for real events and theories on paranormal activities and research."

As she was talking I could see Gene's jaw dropping lower and lower on the ground until he suddenly exclaimed "That's amazing! So, the story of the school house is true?" he asked eagerly.

As one most of the girls turned to the one who told the story, but some of them turned to me with a questioning look.

The girl blushed under the attention, then shook her head.

"The events are true, but the curse and the last part was just fiction. It was to add some realism in the haunting. But there's so many things wrong with that building that I think it's haunted... Mai-senpai, is it haunted for real?"

Gene's POV

As one, all of the girls turned to a specific person.

Mai, what a nice name.

It's a girl, she looks in her teens like all the other people in this room. She has long brown hair that reaches just below her shoulder. Her eyes look like they're a honey brown. She straightened under the attention and effortlessly enraptured everyone's attention.

"There's nothing indicating that there are any ghosts in the building, but I don't that there's nothing wrong with the building itself. It's always creaking on its own, the glass cracks without any cause... it could be collapsing for all we know." She explained calmly.

She slowly stood up, "I'm going to head home now, I don't want to walk in the dark, you girls should go as well; the rain seems to have slowed down."

I looked at my watch and was surprised to see that it was indeed getting late. As she was getting ready she called out "Bye everyone and… Oops, where are our manners, we didn't ask you your name! I apologize. I'm Taniyama Mai, you are?"

I finaly met her eyes. They were so warm and inviting, I couldn't help but smile at her genuinely.

"I'm Shibuya Katsuki. It's nice to meet you Mai-chan!"

And with that she was gone.

I wasn't the only one smiling in the room.

I looked at the girl who spoke to me earlier in question.

She seemed to understand so she explained.

"Mai-senpai was one of the original members of the club. Before it was just for the fiction stories but now it has legitimate research in it because of her. She is also the kindest human being you will ever meet. She holds tutoring sessions with a lot of the students because she says that doing it helps her study, even when she's top of her year." She then sighed, "There's just something about her that pulls you in…"

The other girls in the room nodded in agreement that, yes, Mai was that nice.

She then surprised me when she continued with a dangerous smile on her face

"You better not be thinking of asking her out or a lot of people will come after you. It's for your own safety really."

The temperature in the room dropped but I don't think it's a ghost…

Scary!

Before I could respond the door slid open again and low and behold, my younger (twin) brother came in with the most peculiar look on his face. He glanced at me and said "Let's go, Katsuki."

OMG! THAT JUST HAPPENED!

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(In case you didn't get it, Naru meets her before reaching Gene in the classroom.)