Tuesday, October 20, 2020

LITERARY: "Silhouette" by Daniel Garcia

It was my first year as a high school student at Lyceum of Alabang when I encountered something I would never want to encounter again. It was my first time being at Lyceum and out of curiosity, me and my classmate explored the school. As we arrived at the third floor, I tried to peek in all the rooms there and as I was peeking at the last classroom, I saw something. I saw a silhouette in the corner of the room. As I was trying to focus on visualizing it, I finally saw it clearly. It was a silhouette of a woman and I wondered if I was the only one who could see the silhouette. So, I asked my classmate. I asked him to take a look at the room if he could see something. After looking, he said to me he also saw a silhouette of a woman but this time it’s in the middle of the room. We both looked at each other. We were both scared and frightened by what we saw and as our immediate reaction to it, we just went back to our room as if nothing happened. It seemed like I still couldn’t forget about what we saw back then: that silhouette. It kept haunting me until today.


I’m currently at my senior year. Everything seems fine and normal no supernatural and any creepy encounters so far that’s what I thought until today. It’s 9:00 pm and I’m still at school working on my practical research. While doing my research, I saw something. I saw a silhouette I tried to visualize it more clearly and yes it really was a silhouette, a silhouette of a woman then I remembered during my first year that I also saw a silhouette of a woman and it’s the same figure I saw back then. Each time I blink the silhouette was getting much closer. I'm stunned. I was too scared to move an inch. She’s currently just a few steps away from me and she’s not a silhouette anymore her face, her body, it all became clear. She was a nun. But then I saw something, it was her neck and arms; her neck was filled with strangle marks and her arms were filled with blood. I was trembling with fear I didn’t know what to do. I was shaking so bad I couldn’t move my feet nor my whole body. It seemed like I lost all my strength to move then I felt a hand on my shoulder im scared to look but I still tried to look at it and I saw my friend she was standing there then she asked me why I was shaking and why I also feel cold I just said nothing.


Finally it’s the end of the school year. It’s our graduation day you can see a trace of a huge smile on each and every student as our names our being called one by one and finally my name was called as I was walking towards the stage a sudden cold breeze hit me and I smelled a familiar scent but I didn’t mind it since it’s our graduation day I wouldn’t want anything to ruin this special day of ours, now they’re calling each sections and their advisers for a last chance to have a class picture we were waiting for our section “Amadeus” im still feeling that cold breeze from earlier and now it’s time for our section to go to the stage and take a picture we were having a glorious day but as soon as I saw the picture I saw something else I saw a woman at very corner of the stage it give me chills and I started to tremble again because that woman who was in the picture that woman who was at the very corner of the stage was the nun who scared me to death.

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