Saturday 1535
“Has the bell rang? I have class at the library,” I asked one of my colleagues this morning.
“No bell today. The bell is only set to ring from Monday to Friday”.
“Aaah okay,” I retorted while mental-ling the No-Bell-On-Weekend in my mind.
I proceeded with my class at the library as usual.
About 10 minutes before my class period was over, I kept looking at my wrist watch for fear that I might missed the time (since there is no bell to signal the period is over).
8.05
8.07
8.08
8.09
When I was about to tell my students to get ready to go back to their class, the bell rang.
“Eh, ada pun bell. Good, just in time for my kids to go back,” I was telling myself.
I instructed my students to keep all the books in the proper basket for read books, keep the chairs arranged and walk back to their class silently.
I didn’t sense anything weird.
What more to feel anything out of the ordinary.
Everything was as it supposed to be.
I have another class in one hour time after the earlier class.
So I had breakfast with two of my colleagues.
Soon, fifty-five minutes gone and I got ready to go for my next class.
“Eh, ko ada class lagi?” My colleague asked.
“Ya, but better saya tunggu the bell ring dulu la baru saya jalan”.
“Jangan lah ko tunggu, tiada bell tu kalau Saturday”.
“Tapi tadi saya ada bah dengar bell ringing”. I started to feel confused.
She insisted that there was no bell ringing as it has been set that the bell will only ring every 30 minutes on weekdays.
And I, knowing perfectly what I have heard, defended that it was really a bell ringing at 8.09am sharp.
I should know.
Because, when the bell rang, I checked my wrist watch and it showed 8.09am.
And wondered to myself that perhaps someone must have changed the bell setting so that it will rang today.
I know what I heard.
It was loud and clear.
Then, my other colleague who happens to be the person in-charge of the library intercepted.
“Did you say you were in the library when you heard the bell ringing?”
Yes.
And she laughed out very loud.
“You had a ‘friend’ when you were there!” she continued and laughed again.
Only after she calmed down that she told me, they believe the library is sort of haunted.
There were quite a number of light paranormal activities happened before in there.
Normally, it happens when someone is alone inside.
In my case, I was not alone.
I was with 12 noisy kids at that time.
But the bell did ring.
Loud and clear.
“That ‘friend’ must have pity you so much cos you kept checking on your watch, it chimed the bell near your ear,” my other colleague said to me.
What?
Errrghhhh….

That bell I heard… it was indeed the ONLY time I heard ringing today.
And no one claimed to hear any bell ringing today.
Spooky!
I am never going to that library ALONE next time.
Until next post!
*hugs*