Good Friends

One summer four friends went to the beach. The group was made up of two men and two women. Let's say the men were called A and B, the women C and D, where C was A’s girlfriend, and D was B’s girlfriend. The four friends had known each other for a long time and lived in the same apartment block. B, C and D went into the same car. A had a motorbike and rode on his own. When it was time to go home, B said “Shall we have a race and see who can arrive home first?” A agreed, and the motorbike and the car started a race. The car was the first to arrive. B and his girlfriend D were thrilled that they had won. But C, who was A’s girlfriend, was not so happy. She knew A was a very skillful rider, and had been so sure that he would win the race; as it happened, A was still nowhere in sight. He never came home that day. The next morning B and D went to C’s room to tell her sad news. “Well… I really don’t know how to say this..” B started. “I got a call from the police earlier this morning who told me that A had been in an accident. He was speeding when he hit the guardrail… He died in an instant.” This was terrible news to C, who loved her boyfriend very much, but B and C had something even more shocking to tell. “I said before that we had a phone call from the police. But well…now, don’t be upset… immediately after the call we had a visitor.” “A visitor?” “Yes. And when I asked who it was, guess who answered.” B paused. C could see the two were now visibly shaking as B opened his mouth again. “The person said… that it was A.” C was not sure if she’d heard right. She just stared at them incredulously. “We thought it was some kind of sick joke, and I was about to go out and give him a piece of my mind. But then I realized, how could anyone know what had happened to A, when we were the first to receive the news? No one could have thought of playing such a joke. I thought of that, and then I got really scared. I couldn’t open the door. Luckily, after waiting for a few minutes he went away….” B and D then warned C not to open the door if the same sort of thing happened to her. They believed that the person who came to them was A’s spirit, and that the accident came so sudden that A was unaware of his own death. If C opened the door, they said, he might try to drag her away with him to the next world. After B and D left, C spent the rest of the day crying alone in her room, remembering all the wonderful time she and A had shared. Then the night came. C woke up by a loud knocking on her door. “It’s him….!” C tried to stay calm and ignore the knocking. But it would not stop. “Hey!” said A. “It’s me! Open up!” C went to the corner of her room and covered up her ears. But after a while, with all the wonderful memories still fresh in her mind, she could not resist anymore. “Please! Open the door! It’s me!!” The knocking was getting louder and louder. C went to the door silently. Through the curtain, she could see the outline of A’s form. He was standing right there in front of her, just beyond the door. C nearly opened it, before remembering her friends’ warning. A was dead. He had to understand that. Shaking and crying, she shouted in a desperate voice, “A, please… you …dead…….” The knocking got even louder. C thought that she could at least help him see the truth and leave this world in peace. Mustering all her courage, she finally pushed the door open. ”A, you are dead!!!!” “No! You are the ones who are dead!!!!!” - At that, she lost consciousness. When she next opened her eyes, she found herself lying on a bed in hospital. To her amazement, A, who she thought had died, was standing beside her. He was crying with joy. C did not know what was going on. A started to explain: “After I’d done the race and arrived home, I waited for you three to turn up but you never did” He told her between sobs. “So I rode back the way I came, and saw your car, all smashed to pieces… B and D, who were seated in front, were dead on impact. You got away with only few injuries, but somehow you’ve been unconscious all this time.” As all the facts started to sink in, C began to understand what had really taken place and went deathly pale. It seemed B and D, who had met an instantaneous death, had stolen into her mind and, through the dream, tried to lure her away from this world. If C had done as they had asked and not opened the door, she too would have been dead - for real.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Holy crap, I didn't see that coming! This is a really nice and creepy one. Kudos to you, Saya!
Anonymous said…
So,people,always buckle up whether u r in the front or the back seat.this is a community service msg fr XXX bla bla bla.U can make a difference.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Good story Saya!
Anonymous said…
AHHHH I hate stories like this because they always confuse the crap out of me.
Anonymous said…
Wait.... whaaaaat?
Anonymous said…
seriously :(
Catty said…
whut.
Shan. said…
For some reason, the only thought that popped into my head was, "Aww, the boyfriend is sweet.".
Anonymous said…
the irony
Anonymous said…
LOL westerners can be so dense...
Sienna said…
Omg, wtf those guys are assholes. For all of you that didn't get it, B and D got into a car crash and died. As C was unconscious, in the hospital, B and D wen't into her mind and made her dream about going home instead of a car crash. When they told her if she opened the door she would be taken to the underworld with A because A's spirit thought he was still alive, they were trying to make her not open the door because if she did she would wake up from what A would say and she wouldn't die along with B and D. They wanted her to die with them. Cruel, i know,But if she hadn't opened the door and gotten A's warning that she was dead, which she was close to being dead but he thought she was dead. A was trying to warn B and D too, but they didn't answer because they thought they were still alive. Since they didn't answer immediately, that's how they died on contact. Hope this helps!
Askyel said…
For Real
Anonymous said…
this is alot like the plot of 'soul survivors', a 2001 thriller. maybe they got the movie idea from this story...
Anonymous said…
I love this. Its as if the phone call B and D receive was A trying to wake them up in real life. Anyways, A is such a nice boyfriend. :')
UnicornSlayer said…
This one started to freak me out because i was imagining A trying to bang down her door, but when I realized that he was trying to open the door and bring her to life, i breathed a sigh of relief.
kath said…
this is a nice story, Saya, i liked it a lot :D :D :D a creepy one though ..
sasusaku said…
this story is soo good that i am just speechless!!!!!!!!thanks saya for posting such interesting stories
Anonymous said…
A, B, C, and D are common replacements for names in stories like these, I know... But when A is dating C and B is dating D, I can't resist a reference to Shuuen no Shiori.