30 Years Orphan--Recording#1 (continue)

I swear I saw a shadow passing in front of me, but it just disappeared into the dark corridor. You know what Sarah, I’m starting to think that all these that happened, is not a coincident. All of these starting to creep me out. ‘What brings you here young man?’ it came from an old man who came from my back which made me jump. He was tall, dark and look kinda muscular. From how he look, he seems to be strong and healthy although he’s old. He looks like he’s in his mid 60.

‘Who ar….’ Before I could finish my words, this man just caught my right hand with a strong grip and ran. ‘There is no time to talk. They already knew you are here. Run!’. I was running hard behind, but I don’t know why and who are ‘they’? suddenly I heard a footsteps coming from my back. It was soft at the beginning, but slowly it sounds like it was getting closer and closer. I wanted to stop to see what is it but that black man who was running in front shouted ‘Don’t stop! Don’t wonder! Keep going!’ we were running in a corridor and there is no way we can turn. The footsteps getting closer and faster, until we found a door on the left wall. The black took out a bunch of keys and to try to find the right one that fit the door. ‘C’mon, c’mon’, his hand was shaking sweats were rushing out from his forehead. I can hear the footsteps is getting real close. ‘Aha!’ he found the right key and the door swing open. ‘Now get in!’. I jumped in and realized that the footsteps were just a few feet away from me. I landed flat on the floor, with my face kissing the concrete floor. Ouch.

The back man who had just saved my life, closed the door hard. Then a big ‘Bang!’ to door, the door was standing still there.
‘Phew!’
‘(gasping) What was that!?’
‘(gasping) Fun?’
‘You out of your mind!? You call that fun!’.
The old man gave me a quick smile and walked away. I was still with my bud on the floor, I quickly stood up. It was a dinning room, we entered a dinning room. Everything here was in a proper arrangement, a big square table in the middle which can fit like at least 10 people. Four at each side and one for the front and back of the table. There was a candle holder at the center of the table which only have a candle on it. The candle looks weird, it’s doesn’t look like a normal one we saw. It was….. fat. On the left side of the room was a cabinet, I can’t see what’s in the cabinet, it was filled with dust. In the other side, there were two pictures of two nurses. I recognized one of them, she was the head nurse of the orphanage. On the ceiling, was a chandelier hanging there. It was dark here but I still can see clearly from the moonlight that came through the window at the end of the room.

‘How did you get here?’ The man started the conversation.
‘I don’t know too, I just bumped into this place.’
‘No one can ever came here. Unless….’
‘Unless?’
‘Unless those who should be gone 30 years ago but didn’t’
‘Wha.. what do you mean?’
‘What is your name young man?’
‘Why do you think I should tell you if I don’t even know who are you?’
‘(laughed) Right, I’m Rachard, they call me Gunny. Now will you tell me?’
‘I’m Ben Cooper…’
‘Ben Cooper!?’ The man quickly turned back and shot me a ITS-HIM-! Look.
‘What’s with that look?’
‘Ben Cooper… They are expecting you’
‘Who are they?’
‘Shhh…. They must not be speaked.’
‘Okay what’s the deal with me then?’
‘You are one of the three that was spared 30 years ago when that murder happened. Which mean you are the one that should be gone 30 years ago but didn’t’
‘So? That doesn’t mean I have to come here. And how this place…. I thought it was burned 30 years ago after the murdering.’
The old man walked closer to me and said with a soft tone
‘What you see and where you stand now is not like what they really are. They want you, want you to be dead.’
‘Huh? The they want me… dead?’
‘Of course you can try to escape, but only if you know how.’
‘Then tell me!’
‘Find truth’
‘Truth?’
‘But beware as the truth is very cruel. It is never the like of everything here. But the exit, only can be found there.’
‘How do I find it then?’
‘Find the key and unlock the padlock in the bathroom upstairs. This is all I can tell you.’
Gunny took out a recorder and a knife and handed them towards me.
‘Someone will have to know this. Use this recorder, tell your story and it will automatically send whatever you said to the one you wanna tell.’
I looked at the recorder in my left hand and opened it. It was empty. How can a recorder work without a tape? And how can it send to someone? ‘But….’ He’s gone.

Sarah, I don’t know whether it really works? But if you are listening to this, it means it works. I’m now trying to find the key Gunny said. Prey for me, if anything happens to me, this tape will be my last chance. So, keep it well. Miss you, Ben.

*End Of Recording#1*