Remember the game ‘Bulagaan’ where a “knock-knock” is given then asked “who’s there?” this story is like it.
We were all so busy finishing our requirements in Araling Panlipunan. We almost consume our study hour of our study period just to finish our project. We missed the deadline of submission that day. Since our teacher was staying on our school, we plead her if we could just submit during the night. She gave us a chance with conformity that we would submit it right away or else she would no longer accept if late.
That night, during study period, our classmates Mr. Yodico wanted to submit his project. He went up stairs slowly to avoid the noise caused by the wooden floor. He knocked the door and he entered in the bed room. There was no one inside the room. He wondered who let him in. But then Mr. Yodico, thinking of nothing but to be able to submit his project, sat at the chair on the working table. A cell phone rang. There was a text message. (Other ex-seminarian told me that he used the cell phone to text his friends outside the school. Using a cell phone inside the school is a great offence). Suddenly he heard footsteps coming. Afraid to be caught of what he had done, he hid under the bed of our teacher. Then our teacher Ms. Judith, after some time, felt that she was not alone in the room, someone was watching her. To prove that her feeling was right, he saw Mr. Yodico under the bed, but she did not know it was Mr. Yodico but thought as something like scary creatures. Thinking like that, she then screams as hardly as she could and then ran outside the room call for help. She was very scared and shaking when she told our Rector about what had happened.
After study period, before night praise, Mr. Yodico was called to our Rector’s office. The story spread that almost all the seminarians knew about the event. He was asked. . .
“Why did you enter the room?” asked our rector.
“I was supposed to submit our project in Araling Panlipunan.” answered Mr. Yodico scared with shaking voice.
“No one was inside the room, but still you entered, why?” asked our rector for a second time.
Then Mr. Yodico explained everything what had happened. From the time he went to the room and knocked.
“I knock the door, ‘knock-knock,’ then someone said ‘come in,’ that is why I entered the room thinking it was our teacher who let me in. But then waiting for so long, I roam around and noticed that it was only me who was inside the room. But still I have waited. Then I heard a cell phone rang, I used the cell phone to see the message. . .”
“You used a cell phone?!” our rector said with a loud voice. “you know that using a cell phone is not allowed inside the school. Specially, that cell phone was not even yours; it was your teachers’. Mr. Yodico, why did you do that? And the voice whom you said says ‘come in,’ who do you think was that? A ghost?
“I do not know father, but I really heard someone says ‘come in’ that is why went inside the room. If I didn’t hear someone, I won’t be coming in.” explained Mr. Yodico.
“Okay, tomorrow, I will call your parents and let them come. I will talk to them and of course, to you as well.” said our rector.
I never heard a thing after that meeting. I tried to ask the higher years but they also do not know what had happened and what the consequences are.
Later that night after study period, during night praise and even after, we were all talking about the thing Mr. Yodico had done and most especially about the anonymous voice that were heard saying ‘come in!’ we were asking who would that be. We were also scared maybe it was truly a ghost something like that. Anyone may really think that it was a ghost by just looking at the old view of the school. Like a haunted house. But to make the scary part away, the higher years invented a game like the Bulagaan does. But instead of saying “who’s there?” we rather say “come in!” ha, ha!
“KNOCK, KNOCK!!!?”
“COME IN!!!!” ha, ha, ha, ha!
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