102 A Hard Hour (1/2)

The chemistry lab was not cleaned. As a matter of fact, it was even more messy. Furthermore, there was a much unsettling addition to the lab's previous state of chaos. I wanted to have a closer look, but before doing so, I looked back. I wanted to know that nobody was observing me. When I made sure, I got inside and closed the door. Just to be sure, I locked the door afterwards.

Towards the middle of the room, there were some new substance on the floor. I was smellingvarious chemicals, but I didn't even bother getting myself some protection. I walked towards the middle of the lab. The smell was getting heavier.

And there it was. I wasn't wrong. This... this was definitely blood. Next to the puddles of blood, there was some black hair. And next to those, something else.

”What is this?” I said as I approached the object. I wanted to take it and have a closer look at first, but then immediately backed out. It was a human finger. Most of the skin was there, but the fingernail wasn't. So much tissue chopped away from a body... What could've possibly happened here?

I remembered about the small room just behind the lab. I wanted to take a look at there too. Trying not to step into the blood, or in fact anything on the floor, I slowly and silently made my way there. Anxiously, yet determinedly, I turned the doorknob. The door did not open.

”Oh, right, the key...” I said as I inserted the key to unlock the door. I unlocked the door and tried opening it again, but it got stuck. Maybe the lock mechanism wasn't working. Some brute force could get rid of this problem, just like it did with the lab's door.

I pushed the door with my leg, and the door made a tiny gap. But, it didn't open completely. Turned out, the door was fine; the problem was the heavy object behind it.

As soon as the gap was created, I heard something from that small room. Someone was moving in there.

”Hey!” I said. ”Yasin? Is that you!?”

The door was suddenly closed back. I tried pushing it open again, but it wasn't a successful attempt. I kicked it a few times. No use. I quit trying. The person in that room was already trapped. I could simply get some help from other people and find out what was going on. There was a bit of a mystery to these events, but there was one thing certain; the school would have an... ”interesting” reputation if everything behind these events were found out.

I wanted to take my key back, but it didn't come out. This one was a serious problem. Without it, I couldn't get past the chemistry lab's door to the hallway. If I couldn't get my key back, I would have to break it down; which definitely wasn't something I wanted to do.

In an attempt to communicate with whoever was on the other side, I spoke again.

”Hey! What are you doing?” I said.