Magic Dreamers – from Magic Dreamers’ school
Setting: Magic Dreamers’ school in 2013
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Characters: Three Students from Magic
Dreamers’ High School (MDHS) and Confucius, the Statue on MDHS campus.
Joe, a boy who is eager for a romantic love likes to selfie on
his smartphone listening to music all the time.
Church, a boy who is indecisive and insecure
always
Jasmine, a girl who is outgoing and boyish
likes to fancy and does everything by intuition.
Confucius, the Magic Statue standing inside the
inner gate.
Hanako, a poor ghost who is talkative likes
to talk with other and optimistic. He doesn't know
why he died.
Joe,
Church, and Jasmine are studying in class 520, Magic Dreamers’ school.
They have become good friends after working together on a geography
report. During the ten-minute breaks, they always get together.
Sometimes they chat in the classroom or on the hallway; sometimes they walk
around the campus, go to the tuck shop, or even to the toilet.
One
day, after English class, Jasmine shouted loudly at Joe and Church, “Let’s
go!” “Where?” Joe asked without moving his eyes away from his
phone. “Let’s walk around, shooting the breeze, since there are no more quizzes
today.” “O. K. Let’s go, Church.” Church took his English pocket
book, walking behind them.
They
passed through the inner gate to walk around the sports field. While
walking, Jasmine looked up at the sky, fancying that she was walking in the sky.
“Wow, look at that cloud, looking like a castle. How I wish I could live
in a castle as a princess does!” Both Joe and Church raised their heads,
looking up and wondering where the castle is! “Did you watch too many
cartoons, or too many Korean TV programs?” Church replied to her while Joe was
shaking his head. “It’s so cold. I’m a little hungry. “I
would like to buy some snacks in the tuck shop,” Joe said. Jasmine said
she would like to take a longer walk. Church hesitated whether he should
go with Joe or Jasmine. Jasmine said, “You two go first. I’m coming
soon.”
After
a while, Jasmine walked through the inner gate, going toward the
classroom. Suddenly, she felt like there was somebody behind, gazing at
her. She turned back quickly. But there was none. “Am I dizzy
today? I don’t have any fever today,” she said, feeling her forehead by her
right hand. She walked on. However, she still felt somebody
monitoring her from behind. “What’s wrong with me today? It is almost
time for Chinese Class. I have to hurry up.” She couldn't
wait to tell her friends such feelings but she had to wait until the Chinese
Class ended.
Finally
the bell rang. She ran to Joe and Church to tell what had happened to
her. At first, they didn’t think there was anybody that got interested in
her. “Don’t worry. Our school is safe. We will protect
you.” Jasmine was still wondering why she got that feeling, so she
decided to walk again on the same path they walked during last break
time. Church and Joe had no choice but to go with her. Once again,
as soon as they went through the inner gate, going toward the classroom,
Jasmine got that feeling again. All of them turned around, but nobody
looked at her. They walked on again. After a moment, Jasmine felt
piercing eyes gazing at her back again. However, Joe and Church felt
nothing at all. “Maybe you are too tired. You stayed up so late last
night.” the boys said. “But I stayed up almost every day from Monday to
Friday. I didn't have such a feeling before,” Jasmine answered.
While they were talking, Jasmine faced the statue Confucius. All of
a sudden, she motioned the two boys to turn back. There was a sparkle the
Confucius’s eyes. “Let’s go take a look at it.” When they got closer to
it, the sparkle in the eyes disappeared. All of them rubbed their
eyes. The Confucius was still the same –standing straight, looking
forward, making a bow with clasped hands held at breast level, with a
sword clasped by his waist band. “Illusions!” Church said. “No,”
Jasmine said, “I want to see what on earth happened to the statue.”
“Let’s walk around the statue to explore it.” “萬世師表” “學不厭” “教不倦”, these words inscribed respectively
on the front, right, and left sides of the base are still the same. The
dormitory behind Confucius Statue has nothing
different.” Church repeated the words again, and
Joe did so, too.
When Church and Joe repeated the words
on the statue again, Jasmine walked to its back. She was shocked by
something so strange that she couldn't say anything.
Then Church went to her and asked,
“Jasmine, should we get back or go somewhere to search the clue? I think the
problem is not just about this….” He also saw the same thing what Jasmine
shocked, and the book on his hand fell.
“See! I told you there must be
something wrong,” said Jasmine.
At the same time, Joe took his
smartphone as a mirror, combing his hair. Suddenly, the word on the
statue sparkled as bright as the sun. Joe found the light words and
opened his eyes wide. Over the past few
seconds, he awoke from the shock. Then,
he screamed, and ran to the back of the statue, “Ah~~~.”
The strange door on the statue’s back
opened. There was a boy wearing uniform went out.
The boy found that three students were
sitting on the ground with the surprised face.
“Hey, nice to meet you, my name is
Hanako. I am seventeen years old now and forever,” said the boy. “How
are you today? I’m fine thank you, and you?” he hovered around Joe, and patted
his left shoulder. Joe was pale with
fear. “Alas! Nobody knew my existence,” Hanako murmured and sat on
Confucius’ shoulder.
“Who are you?” doubtfully asked
Jasmine.
“You can see me?" said Hanako. He was so surprised that they noticed him,
and quickly flew down in front of Jasmine.
“Of course! Church, could you see
him? Could you see the boy in front of
me?” Jasmine looked at Church and asked.
Church put on his glasses and said,
“Yes, I can. I see a boy wearing uniform
stand in front of you. But, if we can’t, it means he is a….”
“I am a ghost …, a poor ghost. I seem to realize my wish, and then I can go
to the heaven. But, I had not talked to anyone for a long time. Because
of nobody knew my existence. Um…, how
long has been…?” said Hanako, “Maybe a hundred of year, ha-ha…. You guys
can see me, right?”
“I am so happy that I finally make new
friend,” he flew into the sky by circle and asked, “So, what’s your name?”
“My name is Jasmine. They are
my friend, Church and Joe. So, can you tell us, what’s your
wish?” said Jasmine.
“You are willing to help me? I am glad about your kindness,” he held
Jasmine’s hand intensely and said, “My wish is to find the reason why I died at
the age of seventeen years old. Because of some reason, I don’t remember
it. I just know that my dead body was
found in school’s toilet. So, I only can stay at a rest room. Afterward,
I found this magic door so that I can travel between the rest room and this
school,” Hanako pointed the door and said, “you guys are the first-ever people
who can see me.”
Jasmine told Church and Joe that she
wanted to help Hanako, and hoped they could also join it. “Don’t you think Hanako is very poor? Let’s
help him! We gather in front of the statue of the Confucius at nine, OK?” said
Jasmine.
Church stood up and patted his pants, “Um…,
I want to think more, whether I would go or not?”
“No, I don’t want to do that. It is so odd that an unknown soul ask us for
strange request. I want to go home,” said
Joe, then he walked away.
The next day morning,
Church and Jasmine came in front of the statue, but Joe didn't. After fifteen minutes, Joe still didn't come.
“Why didn’t Joe appear? It’s almost nine fifteen,” Jasmine walked
around the statue.
“Maybe he go to
see a movie with his new girlfriend,” Church took his English book and read.
“Really!” Jasmine
said, “Is there any girl want to see a movie with him?”
“I don’t
know. Maybe…,” said Church.
After five
minutes, Jasmine kept calling to Joe, but he didn’t answer it.
“Why didn’t he
answer the phone?” Jasmine said angrily.
“Never mind. If you feel annoying, you don’t need to help
me. I can remind it by myself,” said
Hanako.
“NO! I have promised to help
you. Let’s go. Don’t care about Joe.”
Said Jasmine.
They decided to go through the
magic door to that rest room. Hanako
pulled over the magic door. The door sparkled
the light too bright to open their eyes.
“You can open your eyes,” said Hanako.
In the other side of the door was a
male toilet, they went into it. Then,
they began to search for the clue.
Two hours later...
“Jasmine, shall we keep finding the clue? Although we have searched it for two hours, we still find nothing. Let’s give up and go back.” Said Church.
“But…,” said Jasmine.
When they wanted to
give up, Joe appeared. “Don’t you find there’s something weird on that ceramic
tile?" Joe said and pointed a dot of bloodstain on the wall.
He moved over the ceramic tile, finding a small piece of paper.
Hanako took over the
paper. After he read the paper, he cried into tears. “I thought of
it," said Hanako.
Hanako told of the
story, “I fell in love for Laura who was my neighbor, she used to be my private
teacher, while I was in junior high school.
When I was in senior high school, Laura became a formal high school
teacher, teaching in my school. As a
matter of fact, I fell in love of her since I was in junior high school. I originally thought that only if she won’t
serve as my private teacher, I would forget her. But, she still appeared in front of me frequently.
Then, I served as her assistant. I asked her many strange questions constantly.
We also returned home together every day.
All of these behaviors are to get close with
her. Time past, I found that I love her
more and more deeply, and I moved over my eye contract from her. I started to concern about her works, relationship,
health…. It happened in the second
vacation of high school. I took my
courage to express my mind, confessing to Laura. ‘Laura, I love you, I am
serious,’ I said. She was shocked by my
confession. ‘Listen! How nervous I am,’ I held her in my arm to
listen my heart beating fast, and she didn’t refuse me, just laid down her head
with shy. Unfortunately, it was
discovered by my homeroom teacher named Disgust who also secretly loved teacher
Laura for a long time, he considered that teacher Laura have accepted my
pursuit. He began to do a lot of threats to me. What’s more, few days later, in the rest room…. ‘Hey! You, you like Laura, right?’ Disgust
went in and asked. I had not found that
he had been crazy at that time. “Did you
hear of it? Yes, I do. And then?” I said. ‘You should know that student and teacher can’t
be lover,’ said Disgust. ‘What if? And you?
You also like Laura?’ I said. I didn’t
hear about his answer, because of he killed me with a kitchen knife.”
“Thank you, guys.
I appreciated your friendly help, without you my
wish wouldn't come true. I have found the reason why I died,
and my wish came true. It’s time for me to get back to the heaven.
Take care~.” Then, there’s a fog coming through and Hanako
disappeared. The small paper fell down on the ground. Jasmine
picked up.
The word on the small
paper, “Sorry, and... I love you, too. By your Laura.”
Finally, the three
students went through that magic door and got back to Magic Dreamers' High
School. The bell rang; they hurriedly ran into the classroom.
A few months later,
they hung around the campus. They passed by the statue of Confucius.
“Does the statue
sparkle again?” said Jasmine.
“Does the door appear
again?” said Church.
“I hope that there
wouldn’t come out another strange ghost,” said Joe.
They went to the back
of the statue, the magic door opened again…
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