{"id":596,"date":"2010-09-24T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/596"},"modified":"2015-05-24T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T06:52:13","slug":"short-story-15-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/596","title":{"rendered":"Short Story (15 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOPIC:<\/p>\n<p>1)&nbsp; Tomorrow will be the Biology exam.&nbsp; Exam is really disgusting, disturbing and disappointing!&nbsp; It&rsquo;s the worst nightmare to me.<br \/>2)&nbsp; And now, I am sitting here in my room, staring at the dense words.&nbsp; They make me want to faint!&nbsp; &ldquo;Red blood cell, white blood cell, blood platelets&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp; All the cells jump out from my textbook, filling my whole room and attacking me.<br \/>3)&nbsp; All of a sudden, a strong wind blows into my room, a piece of note flies off from my desk.&nbsp; So I walk over and close the windows and wonder, &ldquo;Why is the window open?&nbsp; I remember that I&rsquo;ve already closed it.&rdquo;&nbsp; Anyway, I don&rsquo;t bother to further investigate it.<br \/>4)&nbsp; Just then, I look at the clock.&nbsp; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s 10p.m!&rdquo;&nbsp; My heart starts beating faster and faster.&nbsp; &ldquo;I don have enough time now.&nbsp; Got to hurry! &rdquo; <br \/>5)&nbsp; Time flies, one hour has passed.&nbsp; I start to feel sleepy.&nbsp; &ldquo;Knock, knock, knock&hellip;&rdquo;&nbsp; Who is knocking at my door?&nbsp; I ask myself.&nbsp; Mum and Dad are not home yet.&nbsp; I walk towards my door.&nbsp; &ldquo;Click!&rdquo; the door opens by itself.<br \/>6)&nbsp; I stick my head outside the door.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s pitch-black outside.&nbsp; I cannot see a thing aside from a painting hanging on the wall.&nbsp; The doll inside the painting is laughing cunningly at me.&nbsp; My body is shivering and my heart is pounding.&nbsp; I feel a drop of sweat falling from my forehead.<br \/>7)&nbsp; The knocking sound continuously hits my eardrums.&nbsp; I suddenly realize that it may be the footsteps from the family living above us (16th floor).&nbsp; So, I keep on burying myself in the books.&nbsp; The next night, at around 11 o&rsquo;clock, I hear the strange sound again.&nbsp; But this time I also hear some glass breaking sound!<br \/>8)&nbsp; The third night, the forth night and the fifth night&hellip;&nbsp; Every single night, the strange noise is still present, at about 11 o&rsquo;clock.&nbsp; I am really confused!&nbsp; I feel annoyed.&nbsp; I cannot stand the sound anymore.&nbsp; I go to the management office and complain about it.<br \/>9)&nbsp; A week later, I meet other people in the lift &ndash; a father and a daughter.&nbsp; &ldquo;Father, recently, mum&rsquo;s sickness is getting worse and worse&hellip;..&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;Yes. Almost every night, she sleepwalks!&nbsp; She even broke my expensive case!&rdquo; I look at the lighted buttons of the lift.&nbsp; The two lighted buttons are 15 and 16!&nbsp; &ldquo;Everything is clear now!&rdquo;&nbsp; I sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPIC<\/p><p>1) Tomorrow will be the Biology exam. Exam is really disgusting, disturbing and disappointing! It&rsquo;s the worst nightmare to me.2) And now, I am sitting here in my room, staring at the dense words. They make me want to faint! &ldquo;Red blood cell, white blood cell, blood platelets&hellip;&rdquo.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/596\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-9"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}