The Hidden Message

In the middle of the abandon train station, there was a flickering lantern that was casting

shadows on the rail tracks that was really creeping me out. Then suddenly the fluttering sound of a torn notebook page broke the deafening silence, sending chills down my spine, till it finally landed near my feet. I was looking for my best friend who had gone missing a few years ago and the clues had led me here. After her 16th birthday, she just vanished into thin air; and a few days ago, I got a message from her number asking me to meet at this train station.

I entered a room that had a number plate on the top saying ROOM 202. There was a sudden chill in the room with some whispers in the dark as if a ghost just went past me. My eyes then caught the attention of some red markings on the wall, which read as: YOU ARE NEXT, RUN!.

I don’t think that was red paint because it smelled like blood and it looked like someone wrote this in a lot of hurry. Then there was a big thud as if someone had just pushed a big drum down the stairs. I looked towards that direction and  the rustling of the curtains made me sure that there was indeed someone here. My best friend had asked me to meet and stay in this room only but my gut told me otherwise, so I ran straight out the room. At at the end of the rail track, I could see a shadowy figure. I thought that was Miya but the shadow was too tall for her, so I ran in the opposite direction. I could hear a ticking watch from far; I followed the sound and it led me to a hidden passage.

On the wall of that passage, I noticed a message scribbled in a different handwriting: 'Go to the tunnel!' When I entered the tunnel, I found a room with a wall with a clue board, filled with pictures and names. On the top, there was my name and picture. Suddenly, my eyes fell on something familiar --------- the way a few letters are underlined, it all started to make absolute sense. I remembered Miya and I had invented a secret language, in which we used to underline letters and connect the letters, and that would make a sentence. The letters made out: 'Meet me on the bridge at dawn'.

I looked at the time; it was about to be dawn and my final chance to meet her. As I went to the bridge, there was a black locked box but no Miya. As I looked at the box, all my memories started fading in, I knelt down and started crying because she went missing because of me and then I heard the police sirens. I have split personality, and secretly resented Miya and trapped her.