endless hallway [p1]

Drake was one of those associates who have the potential of making it big in the Project.

He comes from a wealthy family, graduated from an exclusive school. He was a great leader; he has his very own way of befriending everyone... he breaks the ice when everyone’s being too serious with their work. The only problem was his schedule adherence… he resides from the South and the office is located in the North. One time he came too early at the office because he needs to prepare for a presentation with the clients. He proceeds to the training room at the 32nd floor so he could concentrate on his speech. He was all alone at the floor… he didn’t even try to check up the people at the 34th floor.

He was reciting his speech over and over… adds some jokes and erases some part that he thinks wasn’t necessary. He walked thru the room, having some gestures as he speaks… experimenting to some lines… humming the lines with familiar songs so he could easily memorize. He stands, he sits, he goes on circles… then he faced the mirror wall… so he could see himself.

A few hours later the room becomes a bit foggy, he was puzzled because the air condition wasn’t turned on that time… he just put on an electric fan at the front of the room. He tried to look where’s the source… he was lead to the conference room at the farther side of the floor… the fog suddenly fades as he opens the door. Nobody’s there… just some boxes of files.

He went back to the training room… but the hallway was not the same… the computers, the cubicles, the chairs… they’re all gone… all that’s left was an empty long hallway heading to nowhere… he shouted… “Hello, anybody there?”… Then he heard a giggling sound of a child… he looked back the conference room was now replaced by a wall… a wall where some images were forming… he ran towards the hallway… he risked of heading to nowhere.

If only he checked the 34th floor he would have discovered it was still Monday… nobody’s expected to be at the office that early... nor be at the office.

the mirror has weird faces

Au, Gem, Macie were good friends. Au, the most “kikay” of the three, was fond of cute guys and always worried of her long black straight hair. Gem, the girl with a great smile, she’s gifted with a towering height that made her face featured into some of the country’s glamorous magazines. Macie, the so-called “geek” of the group, who seemed like she have her own little world every time she’s in front of her pc, feeding her neopet (on a virtual pet site). The three got along very well that they called themselves “Kikays”. They always arrive at the office together, and it has been their habit to head straight to the powder room and have their retouch done... for 30minutes. That makes their total working hours with an average of 7.

That Saturday afternoon they have to stay to wait for their friend Jane, the fourth member of the “kikays” who unfortunately didn’t pass the training. They’ll be spending their weekend out-of-town with their boyfriends. They’ve decided to do some experimenting on their beauty kits. They tried to curl their hairs and put on some make-ups… they even have pictures taken trying on their swimsuits. It took them 3 long hours to get tired of their vanity trip.

As they wash their make-ups off their faces… the mirror in front of them started to become blurry… they tried to clean it up with paper towels but they saw some weird images of them… images of them dead… Gem screamed… she’s hematophobic… she accidentally held on the hand dryer who suddenly becomes grounded and got her electrocuted. Seeing this Au had her seizure attack, Macie didn’t have any training on first-aid stuff so she didn’t know what to do that time… she was crying of being useless… she cant help her friends… Gem already ran out of breathe because of the shock. And Au at that time was starting to become pale… Macie decided to go out and get some help… she could see thru the doors of the hallway separating the rest room from the office floor, the lights were off… she headed to the door but it was locked… she banged on it… but seems like there’s some kind of force outside that was overpowering her… she went back to check up on Au… when she checked for pulse Au’s already dead then… she tried to contact Jane but for some weird reasons she was only hearing blurred voices… then it becomes louder… the language spoken was like of a spooky tribe having their rituals. She got scared and she accidentally looked on the mirror again and she saw someone was standing at her back… with a butcher’s knife aiming at her… she turned back and tried to slap the person on her back with her cellphone… but there’s no one standing… she just heard someone just closed the door outside the hall… so she ran out and shouted for help… but the doors were still locked and no one’s there… she was feeling somebody’s watching her and when she take a peek at the wall mirrors of the hallway there’s a lot of images around it… then suddenly the door opposite to where she was standing suddenly opened… and without any hesitation she ran to get the hell out from where she was… but when she reached half way to the door two hands from both side of the mirror walls suddenly comes out and pulled her legs that caused her to fall out of balance… she rolled back and the next thing she saw was the mirror walls cracked down and before she could stand up and ran the broken pieces started to fall unto her… killing her.

the death of ritchie

Back at the 34th floor... when everyone wasn't informed yet of what happened at the 37th floor.

The much awaited awards were about to be announced… Team Claims 123 won the award… everyone from the team was blissful… members were cheering their team lead as she delivered a speech. And for the last award, the fourth associate to be placed on the Hall of Fame... Ritchie… the eager-beaver associate… who sometimes bites off more than what he can chew. As the crowd from his team joins his achievement, some were skeptic with his achievement… there were those who maliciously looked at him. There were undisclosed issues going on to some of his colleagues… it all started when everyone begins to notice the change of his attitude towards his colleagues. Some says he started to become bossy, he gives out annoying remarks every now and then, he acts as if he was of a person with authority and worst he becomes distant to everyone who ask for his assistance.

He planned for a victory party after work… he ordered pizza and pasta and serve it at the conference room… the pizza arrived and he have to go up to the 35th floor, it’s a protocol for outsiders to meet up with the employees there, when he reached the 35th floor, there’s no guard on duty not even a delivery guy… just boxes of pizza, pasta and some bottles of soda. He tried to take a peek in the reception area… he noticed a shadow passed by the door of the clinic. Thinking that it was the guard or the delivery boy he entered… but to his surprise there is no one on the whole floor… he was about to badge out when he heard a flush on the toilet… he haven’t checked the john yet, so he waited for that person to come out, but 5 minutes have passed and still no one came out… he decided to come in… he knocked on the door, nobody answered… he opened the cubicle doors, there’s no one in there… he started to have goose bumps… he hurriedly went out of the john and grabbed his orders… he just left his money at the counter of the receptionist, he noticed that some sticky liquid was flowing on the box of pizza… it was red, and it was blood! His terror grows more the moment he open the box, the toppings were eyeballs! He then threw everything to the trash bin, and ran into the main door… it was unusual that by that time he can’t badge out… he heard something was like rolling… he looked back… it was the eyeballs, they bounced out on the trash bins and rolled towards him… he ran into the other side of the floor and tried if his badge would work… but there’s no luck… the eyeballs started to bounce into his face, he tried to pull it off, the eyeballs were somewhat like glued onto his epidermis by a super glue… that whenever he tried to pull it off, his outer skin were stripped off as well. He can’t do anything but to shout that time… but that didn’t take long, an eyeball bounced in to his mouth, he choked to death… and then once again silence surrounds the whole floor.