Summer Chills: Night Study Hall

Author back2school (alum, graduated a long time ago)
Board Paranormal
Subject [Experience] About the "Night Study Rules" at my old school
Date some year, July, night

Hi everyone. I graduated more than ten years ago, first time posting, sorry about the formatting.

My old school has a tradition. Nobody knows which year it started.
Every summer, students go back to the school in the middle of the night.
They say they are going to "night study."

I only know three things.

1. A sheet of rules goes up on the notice board. The school did not put it there.
2. There are six assignments. They say that if you don't finish them, the end-of-day bell never rings.
3. The next morning, some of them remember that night. Some of them don't.

Don't ask me how I know.
I just want to tell whoever is going in this year one thing.
(cont. below)

▲ wakeupla: OP, is your school in central Taiwan? my cousin used to talk about those rules
▼ sciguy: here we go again, people still passing this around after all these years
▲ midnight22: a friend of mine went in. wouldn't talk about it after. only said you have to finish the homework
▲ F5F5F5: bump
▲ whoisthat: the first rule on that sheet is crossed out, right.

--
Oh, and one more thing.
One of the classmates beside you may not be your classmate.

TO THE STUDENTS STAYING AT THIS SCHOOL TONIGHT

Welcome to night study. Until the end-of-day bell rings, please observe the following rules.

1. When you hear knocking in the corridor, hide in the nearest classroom at once, turn off the lights, and make no sound. Don't hide.

2. At night this school holds only the five of you. Count heads at all times. When the count is correct, carry on with what you are doing. When the count is wrong, do not say so aloud, and do not try to work out who the fifth one is. Act as though you noticed nothing, until the count is correct again.

3. After midnight, a mirror is no longer only a mirror. Look into one if you must, but do not count the people in it, and do not hold the gaze of anyone in it for more than three seconds. What happens in the mirror is not spoken of outside the mirror.

4. The anatomy model in the science lab should be missing its left little finger. If the model you are looking at is complete, it is not a model. Leave that room quietly.

5. When a broadcast begins, stand where you are until it ends. Any student whose name is called need not answer. If what the broadcast says differs from what you remember, the broadcast is what counts.

6. Writing anyone's name in red ink is forbidden at this school. A name that has already been written in red is never to be read aloud. If you find a name struck out in red on any roster, remember where it sits, but do not say it.

7. The rooftop door is locked. This is for your protection. Until you fully understand the truth of what happened back then, do not attempt to open it. No teacher is carrying the key.

8. The statue on the field should face the flag platform. If it faces the classroom building, it is looking at one of you. Do not follow its line of sight.

── Office of Student Affairs
the 32nd day of the 13th month, ROC year 79

(There is one more line in pencil along the bottom edge of the original. It does not photocopy.)