Valeria Horror Story Part Six

 The thought had been coming back to me, the remembered dream that may not have been a dream it may have been what was told to me.The eighty six children were all in the hall when the fire started. Sat together in front of the stage taking a boring lecture on a play that they were to stage, they were a bit disinterested but well behaved. The smoke that first started appearing through the stage curtains was not much at first, it was being held back by all the damp material. In those days a lot of things they used and took for granted were unknown to them quite dangerous,flammable.When the fire took hold in the storeroom at the back of the stage it was with a an unnatural ferocity

The children were told to sit  and wait when the teacher first saw the smoke, she walked away  unawares of the impending disaster. The children were soon overcome by the smoke. Valeria was the last child to be overcome. Alert and perceptive she saw that the curtains were probably holding back more smoke she made it to a window.

“Why didn`t you go for the door Valeria!?” I wanted to know desperately.

Mrs. Goldgren was still appealing for answers The room was turning blacker. The crashing sound came again. I couldn`t speak.There was no negotiating with Valeria I could not have begun to explain that to Mrs.Goldgren.

Heather shot up and was desperately rattling the big brass door handle by the time we were all behind her. She let go only when Mrs. Goldgren attempted to try it briefly .Then went back to panicked rattling.Mrs Goldgren reappeared as suddenly has she had disappeared with a fire hydrant which without wasting a second she put straight through the doors glass pane. We were soon out.

I thought I had better recount as much detail as I possibly could in order to help you better deal with your current situation. I have no idea what will be helpful and what will not so I am just including everything!

After that meeting in Mrs. Goldgren office things did quiet down a great deal. Valeria never reappeared. We didn`t see her at least but the school inside seemed ever darker all over. In need of repainting. Clemency made a completely startling about turn on Valeria.Practically brainwashed by her parents she would not be budged from the firm belief that the whole thing had been imagination. It was all very odd.  We were all over familiar with odd by then.

Everyone was told repeatedly that we had had a very nasty infection, a contagious fever, causing terrible nightmares and an out of control imagination. That was the strangest bug I ever heard of let alone caught! I have certainly never heard of anything like it since. Malaria maybe? In West Leeds?

I remember after everything realising we only had few months left before we moved to a bigger modern middle school further down the road.I walked the distance everyday wondering nervously if it was far enough away.

I must have had a recurrence of it whatever it was because I recall seeing Valeria one last time when I left the middle school for high school. Walking past the weird old primary every day I still sort of remembered it as a scary place but had largely forgotten why over the intervening years.

 
 We stood under the trees that edged our middles schools playing field at the end of the driveway saying goodbyes. When almost everyone had gone I felt someone kick me in the back of the shin. I span round ,knowing I would seeing someone I knew but not who and there she was about three feet beneath me.I knew her instantly . The height difference now shook us both so much we staggered back. Valeria’s face filled with a raging inferno of hatred barely expressible she could not even stand to look up at me. She simply turned her rage away and stomped determinedly back up to toward her school. She could not let me forget but facing me was like facing what she had lost all over again. She couldn`t let me forget what I knew, that if she had opened the door instead of going to the window she would have survived but she would have been the only one.

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