ENTER THE HALLWAY AT
YOUR OWN RISK!!
What are YOU doing in MY hallway? I have never seen you. Are you a new
student? Well, just to let you know, I don't like new students.
Frankly,
I don't like any of the students! They are living the life that I
should be living, but instead I have to roam around these dorms
like a nobody. But I am a SOMEBODY! I am Lauren Sheppard. And I was
killed in these college dorms and the college does not even care! I was
so young when I was taken off this earth and it was unfair. I should
not have died. I COULD have been saved by my dorm mate Jessica
Steel. But for her sake, ignorance sure was a bliss that horrible
winter night.
I guess some may call me bitter, but wouldn't you be bitter and upset
if you were killed during the so-called "best times of your life?" All
of my friends and family bragged about going to college and being away
from home.
Before my death, I was a normal college student. I was involved in the
Freshman Leadership group, Pre-Medical Club, and most importantly my
sorority Omega Chi Delta (ΩΧΔ). OCD or ΩΧΔ is a very prominent sorority
on my college campus and we are all very well liked. My death, or shall
I say MURDER, was talked about all over campus and even to this day the
police
have not been able to solve the case. It's been six months and almost
the
end of what would have been my Freshman year--and they STILL do NOT
have a suspect! What kind of police officers work on this force? I bet
it's those ones who drink their coffee and eat their donuts all day!
So I guess now you want the story. Well, I'm not sure if I should tell
you...It's not like YOU could or would actually do anything to help.
I'll still wander these dorms like I have for the last six months and
probably years to come. I guess since you are still here, I might as
well tell you happened that cold winter night. As every college student
likes to
do, I partied. Don't get me wrong, I studied my tush off during those
six
months. I had to if I wanted to be a Neurosurgeon at the world's famous
Seattle Grace Hospital, which of course will NOT happen now!
But let's get back to the story. I stayed an extra day after finals to
go to
the Kappa Tau Gamma's "end-of-the-year-party." This was their biggest
party on campus and I was EXCLUSIVELY invited by my crush Derek
Sheppard. If you ever meet him, hands off! He's still mine! Well, on
with my death. As the party concluded, I knew I had to get back to my
dorm. I had an early flight to Colorado the next day. My roommate
Jessica decided to be a party-pooper and had gone to bed early. As I
was
walking back to the dorms, I had this eerie feeling that there was
someone behind me. It was December and freezing cold outside. There
were hardly any students left on campus because a lot of students had
left
for Christmas break. I remember getting a little nervous and
unconsciously started walking way faster than I had been before.
It was
dark and cold outside so I tried to bundle up as the cold air kept
hitting my face. I heard the footsteps follow me inside my dorm
building. Back then, the dorms did not have these fancy locks like they
do now to get in. I knew I was in trouble, but there was
nothing I could do about it except to make it to my room before he
caught up with me. When I finally made it to my hall I tried to take
off running toward my door, but he caught me by my hair and pulled me
backwards. I screamed, but no one was around. Oh, it hurt so bad! My
head hit the cold, concrete floor and before I knew what happened, warm
blood started to flow from my neck. I pleaded with the man, but he kept
striking me, trying to make me stop screaming. I think he was trying to
rape me,
but I kept crawling. I got to my dorm room and just started pounding
and
scratching at the door. That's when my murderer fled the scene. He knew
he was going to be caught. But that was just the problem, MY ROOMMATE
NEVER CAME TO THE DOOR! I sat there on the floor of our hallway just
bleeding to death! All I wanted was a night out before going home to my
family, but instead it was like I ended up on my death bed. I was taken
in such
an unfair manner and my own roommate just left me to die. I remember
the next morning, as I began my afterlife as a ghost, when she came out
of the room and saw my dead, lifeless body in a pool of MY OWN blood.
Her shrieks pierced the hallways and I just looked at her with my head
cocked to one side. But, of course, she could no longer see me. I was a
ghost and there was no denying it at this point.
Author's Note:
I used this as the second story because I felt it brought out
more of a
mystery than the first story about the suicide. I kept a lot of details
from the original story but just added some more fluff. I felt like the
original story just gave me a base to work on and I just added the
details. I felt like her tone would be kind of rude so that is why I
started the story out the way I did. I know if I was murdered in this
manner, I would not be all chipper like the ToysRUs ghost. In the first
story, the ghost had a pretty good attitude about dying, but in this
story I wanted the ghost to be more sarcastic and angry. I could see
this
poor girl just watching all these other students live the life she was
taken from.The original story has some minor differences about why the
girls actually decided to stay after everyone else had already left for
Christmas break, so I thought the party would relate more to a college
student than a delayed flight or something else to that extent. Also,
in the original story, they say that the roommate got scared even
though she heard the noise outside but I was not sure how to add that
into my story since it was the actual victim telling the story.
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Bibliography
Story Title: The Roommate's Death
Website Name: Urban Legends Reference Pages--The
Roommate's Death
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