Chapter 3

The kitchen was bustling this morning.

"Corrine, stop playing with your phone! Can you help me take care your little sister?" Maura shouted as she made pancakes, while Emily was crying because of a wet diaper.

"Mom, I'm busy. I have a lot of tasks today," Corrine replied.

"Elise, then help your sister!"

Elise grumbled in annoyance, "Fine!"

Elise put down her book and picked up Emily.

"Good morning, honey!" Harry kissed his wife's cheek as he grabbed a piece of bread and ate it. "Where's Eiden?"

"Ugh, he must be still sleeping. Corrine, wake him up!"

"Mom-"

"I know you're busy, but can't you help me just a little bit?"

Corrine rolled her eyes, "Okay." She put her phone down and went upstairs.

Corrine knocked on Eiden's door and called him several times, but there’s no answer. She opened the door and entered the room. Eiden was no longer there.

Corrine felt relieved that she didn't have to go through the trouble of waking up her brother. As she was about to leave the room, her eyes caught sight of an object on the table. It was a black cassette and a cassette player.

"I didn't know you liked collecting antiques stuffs," Corrine whispered softly. "I guess you wouldn't mind if I borrow it for a while, right?"

Corrine smiled and took the cassette without Eiden's knowledge. She planned to return it after her classes. Corrine quickly went back to her room and got ready to go to campus.

At the campus cafeteria, Corrine took out the cassette she had taken from Eiden's room. Laura and Hayle approached her.

"What's this?" Hayle asked as he took the cassette from Corrine's hand.

"I found it in my brother's room."

"You mean, you stole it?" Laura asked, laughing.

"No. I just borrow it, and I'll give it back later."

"Does it still work?" Hayle asked.

"Yep, I think so. I havn’t try it yet." Corrine took out the cassette player and handed it to Hayle.

Just as Hayle was about to play it, their phones rang. It was a message from their student group saying that the class time had been moved up.

"Well, that's great!" Hayle said with a frustrated expression.

Everyone had entered the classroom, except for Corrine and Laura, who were getting books from the library. Tony informed them that Professor Edward Snowden would be 15 minutes late. Some students felt disappointed, while others felt happy and even hoped that the class would end without any lessons.

Hayle eagerly stepped forward in the class.

"Attention, please!"

Everyone suddenly fell silent and turned their attention to Hayle.

"So, I have something unique that I want to show you all." Hayle took out a cassette. "I have this!"

The students looked intrigued, wondering what Hayle had in store for them.

The students laughed and looked at Hayle strangely, except for one person. Tony, the weird and quiet student, looked at the cassette in Hayle's hand with a serious expression.

"This cassette contains a song called 'Terrifying' that was released in 1934. Well, sounds weird, right? Haha. Okay, let's play it!" Hayle insert the cassette into the player and bring it closer to the microphone on the podium.

"Wait!" Tony quickly walked over to Hayle.

"Where did you get this?" Tony asked.

Hayle looked at Tony strangely, "From Corrine, why?"

"May I see it?" Tony asked.

"Sure." Hayle give it to Tony.

Tony examined the cassette carefully. He feel that something was wrong.

"It's probably best not to play it," Tony advised.

"Why?" Hayle asked.

"Hey, freak, get the fuck outta here!" Collins shouted.

"Huuuuu!" All the students jeered at Tony and threw paper at him.

Hayle snatched the cassette from Tony's hand and inserted it into the player. Tony didn't want to hear that song. He quickly grabbed his bag and ran out of the classroom. He knew something!

In the library, Corrine and Laura were waiting in line to borrow books. Corrine appeared restless.

Laura, noticing this, asked, "Corrine, what's going on?"

Corrine bit her lip. "Laura, I have a feeling that something is going to happen."

"Something like what?" asked Laura curiously.

"I don't know."

Laura silent for a moment, then said, "Maybe it's just your feeling. Sometimes I also feel it without any reason, but it doesn't mean something bad will happen, right? Maybe you're just overly stressed."

"Yeah, maybe," Corrine tried to calm herself with Laura's words.

After filling out the list, they left the library. Suddenly, everyone was startled by a loud, repetitive crashing sound. It sounded like something had fallen. Right at that moment, everyone started running out of the building.

Corrine and Laura, witnessing this, were shocked. Laura quickly stopped a student who was running.

"Hey, what's going on?!" she asked.