Enigma Of The Killer Lecturer

Shade

Somewhere over the rainbow

Way up high

And the dreams that you dream of

Once in a lullaby...

"Huh...Huh...?"

Her eyes were wide open, her heart was beating fast. Soraya raised her head, her body shaking.

A white room, a medicinal smell and a strange silence. She didn't know, what had happened and why she was so scared?

"Where is this?" She thought.

Krieeettt...

The door opened, a nurse came in with medicine and an injection. The nurse smiled at her, Soraya did not understand.

"You're awake, Miss! All right, I'll give you a shot, okay?" She said softly while injecting medicine through the IV tube attached to Soraya's hand.

"Where is this? Why am I here?" Soraya asked. Trying to find answers to questions in her head.

"You faint and some of the students took you to the hospital."

"Faint?" Soraya was stunned. She believed that the cause of her fainting was someone strangling her using shoelaces.

"Josh? That's right, he-" Traumatic attacks ran through her body. Her chest was very tight as if swallowing a very large stone.

Tears flowed from her eyes, flowing like a river. Soraya didn't know, what had happened to her, but she felt so broken and hurt.

The nurse panicked seeing Soraya crying, she knew that something very bad had happened to this girl. She had been lying unconscious for three days with several bruises and cuts on her face and body, especially the wound marks around her neck.

"No... no... no... I don't want to...!" Soraya wept. The nurse started to panic and immediately called the doctor.

A few moments later, the Doctor came with Soraya's father and mother, Mr Jack Chamberlain and Mrs Denise Chamberlain.

Mrs Chamberlain grabbed her daughter's body and hugged her very tightly.

"Honey, it's mom! Everything is fine, calm down!" Mrs Chamberlain gently stroked her daughter's head, trying to calm her down.

"Mom, what happened? What happened to me?" Soraya whined, forcing her mother to tell her what had happened to her.

Mrs Chamberlain looked at her husband who looked sadly speechless. They knew this was bad and it made them start to regret their decision to let Soraya study in a city far from them.

"Calm down, honey! Everything will be fine. There is nothing to worry about! The man has received his sentence, he has been arrested and he will be severely punished. He has committed so many crimes! But, I'm very grateful, my daughter is fine. That bad guy tried to trick everyone by disguised as a lecturer, so that no one would notice his evil deeds. So many innocent girls are victims of-"

"Who? Who are you talking about, Mom?" Hearing her mother's words about a man who had physically and sexually abused her made Soraya realize that there was something strange about her mother's statement.

Mrs Denise Chamberlain frowned. Right now she just thought that Soraya couldn't remember clearly what had happened to her and who had done it?

"Honey, I don't want to say it now! I don't want it to make you have to remember it again, okay?"

"No, Mom! I- I don't understand, what you're saying. Lecturer? Who are you referring to?"

"Robert William Stanley, he the one who did this to you. He was the one who ruined your future, he-" Mrs Chamberlain couldn't finish her sentence. Her tears were unstoppable, it made very crushed.

"Mom, you are wrong! Mr Stanley has nothing to do, he has nothing to do with any of this. He is innocent, Mom! He is innocent!"

"No, honey! No! Never mind, forget it! Don't remember it again, ok? That man will never bother you again, he will never destroy another's life again!"

"No...! He's innocent! Mom, I beg you, he's innocent! It wasn't him who did it, he's innocent...!" Soraya screamed hysterically, trying to convince her mother that Robert Stanley wasn't the culprit.

Mr Chamberlain tried to calm Soraya who was starting to lose control. Her mind and soul were in turmoil, she had just gone through a very bad time.

"Honey, calm down! Don't think about it! Think for yourself, understand? Mom and dad will be here looking after you. There's nothing to worry about!"

"Dad, it's not true! He's innocent, Mr Stanley is innocent! He didn't do it! it was Josh! He did it...!"

"Auntie, did you hear? I told you that Soraya wouldn't believe it! No matter what happened, she would always defend her idol!" Said Kimberly who was speaking at the door.

Soraya turned her head to look at Kimberly and David who had come without her noticing. They looked at her with looks she couldn't understand. Sad, disappointed and hateful. That was all she could see from their gazes.

"What are you saying?" Soraya stared blankly. Her body was too weak to digest everything that was happening.

"You have been blinded by love. Realize, Soraya! You have dreamed too far. The man you love is a monster, he is a r****t, a very cruel murderer. He does not deserve to live in this world!"

"No...!" Soraya shouted. She was very angry, she was sick of hearing people hate him.

"Honey, calm down!"

"You-you don't know anything! You bad people...! You don't know anything!" Soraya raged. Get out of control and keep screaming.

The doctor immediately approached her, gave her a sedative injection.

"Calm down! Doctor will treat you!'

"No...! Let me go! Let me go...!"

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"Huh...huh...?"

Soraya opened her eyes. Dizziness, her head feels very dizzy. It was dark, all she saw was a dark sky and tall trees that seemed to shade her.

"Ugh..." Soraya lifted her head which felt very heavy.

"Ugh... it hurts!" She groaned in pain. Her whole body felt very sore, especially in the neck and groin area.

"Hoeeekkk..." She vomited. She had never felt so nauseous before.

"Where is this?" Her eyes tried to look at her surroundings. A large warehouse separate from the art faculty, trees and grass fill the garden.

"The warehouse?" She muttered. She saw the warehouse where she and a young man had been tortured by Josh.

Soraya tried to get up, even though her body felt very weak and sore. She limped along, trying to figure out what had really happened while she was unconscious. However, Soraya felt something strange. She touched her fully clothed body. Though she was sure, the last time she was naked.

"Who put my clothes on?" She was silent. Her head was trying to remember what had happened and all he remembered before she lost consciousness was Josh's body suddenly collapsing.

Soraya tried to figure it out, her eyes darting all over the place. Hope to find answers to questions. Under a tree right nearby, she saw a young man lying unconscious. she was sure this young man was the one Josh had beaten unconscious. Soraya walked over to him, trying to check on him.

Strange, Soraya felt there was something strange about this young man. She was sure that this young man was beaten so badly that his face was covered with blood. But, what she saw now, there wasn't a trace of blood on his face. There were only bruises and cuts on his forehead, eyes, nose and lips.

"He? Why do I think I've seen him?" She thought. An image from a while ago appeared in her head. Memories of when she accidentally collided with a young man in the corridor. At that time she and Diana would go to meet Kimberly in her room.

"He's the one in the corridor, right? Hey! Get up! Get up!" Soraya shook his body. Trying to build it.

The young man squirmed, his eyes moving as if they were about to open. Slowly, he began to regain consciousness after being unconscious for several hours.

"You? W-who are you? Did you help me?"

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