The warehouse was big, 3 stores with very very small windows, even the sunlight can't fit through that small window. You could say it’s dark inside if you don’t let any lights came from the door when it was opened.

Why not turn on the lights? Because it’s broken long ago, and why not repair it? Because we didn’t use the warehouse when it’s night, why bother to repair it when you don’t even use it?

I walked to one of the aisle at the back and started counting. Suddenly I felt like the temperature just dropped, I thought maybe it’s still morning so I just move on to the next aisle. Slowly I started shivering, I shivered until the hair at the back if my neck just stood out.

Suddenly I heard a glass broken at the back of the aisle I just checked. Every strand of hair on my body just stood out, and my mind started to play the conversation that I heard from my sunbae’s at the office about paranormal things at the warehouse. I shook my head, and kept on repeating my mantra “If you believe it, then it will become a reality. But if you don’t it’s just a bull.” on and on.

But I can’t stop chanting, because I started to hear a voice that keeps on talking after I chant my mantra. It’s a voice that I couldn’t distinguish, whether it was a woman’s voice or a man’s voice. The voice kept on saying “You’re wrong.” “No, it’s not true.”

“Who’s there?” I asked, but still the voices won’t stop.

But I can’t just walk back to the office and leave the broken glass alone. I don’t want to get scolded by my boss just because his stocks just fallout from the aisle without any explanation. So yeah I gather up all of the braveness and courage that I’ve got left and started to walked to the back.

I kept on lying to myself saying that maybe it’s a rat that I don’t-know-where-it-came-from. I can hear my heartbeat that was beating so much with fear. I can’t stop shivering and chanting because the voices just won’t stop. When I was about to turn to the aisle, the glass broke again, and I stopped at my tracks.

“Who’s there?!” this time I yelled, letting my deep voice boomed around the warehouse. Again no answers, but this time the voices stopped. I sighed in relief for a while, but then the silence that engulfed around me doesn’t make things any better.

When I turned to the aisle, the third glass broke again, and it made my heart almost stopped from beating. From the little light that was from the door, I can saw the shards of the broken glasses on the floor.

“Hello? Is-is there anyone?” I stuttered.

This time there’s an answer, but the answer is making the situation worst. The answer was a sound of someone’s laugh.

“Who’s there?! Do you think it’s funny to break other people’s things? Come out and show yourself!” I yelled, I can’t take it anymore so I just let it out with anger. But still it sounded like I'm yelping in fear.

The laugh won’t stop, I roamed my eyes everywhere in search of someone who’s playing some sick prank on me.

Then my eyes found something, and froze me on the spot. My heart keep on pounding in fear as I saw a pair of eyes was looking at me at the end of the aisle. The sunlight didn’t reach that spot, I can’t see who’s looking at me. Those eyes sent shivers down to my spine as I saw the glowing red colors of the eye. I can feel the intent gaze that those red eyes gave me, people said that you can’t scream or move when your fear just eat you whole. That was what those eyes gave me, slowly the dark that was around those eyes formed a body, and walked towards me while laughing. Still I can’t move as if I was paralyzed, and my eyes won’t move from those glowing red eyes.

“You can’t run!” it said.

Then that shadowy figure stepped on a place where the sunlight can reach, the place where I was standing. Soon it backed away from it as if the sunlight was some kind of disease, my sense perked up, soon I noticed that the shadow was afraid of the light.

Not for long my body can move again, quickly I ran towards the door, not caring anymore about the broken glass.

“I said you can’t run!” the shadow screamed from behind me.

Still I ran not looking at back, because I know once I look into it’s eyes again, I can’t run anymore. I reached the door and quickly stepped outside under the sunlight. In a swift I closed the warehouse door, locked it and stepped back.

Then the door banged, like it was being hit by a powerful force.

YOU CAN’T RUN!

I ran. I ran again back to my office, back to where I thought it was safe, it was full of people, back to where I can hide.

Then I bumped to one of my sunbae’s, Suho.

“H-hyung.” I stuttered.

“Chanyeol? What’s wrong? Wow, you look so pale. Are you sick?”

“N-No. It’s the w-warehouse. There’s s-something in that warehouse!” I freaked out, not caring that anyone could hear me.

“Lower your voice Chanyeol-ah. Okay, what’s in the warehouse?”

“The… The glasses were broken-“

“What? You broke our stock?!” he shrieked.

“No hyung hear me first! The glasses on the 6^th aisle were broken a-and-“

“Wait, 6^th aisle? What do you mean?” he raised an eyebrow, giving me what-heck-did-you-just-say look.

“Huh? The 6^th aisle in the warehouse hyung, there’s something!”

“Chanyeol, I don’t know what are you talking about, but there’s no such thing as 6^th aisle. We only have 5 aisles in the ware house.”

“H-huh?” I froze. Suho’s word just sent shivers down to my spine. 5 aisle? But I do remember there’s 6 aisles in the warehouse, unless…

“I think you need some coffee, come on let’s go to the canteen, my treat.” he patted my shoulder and gave me a brotherly smile.

“N-no hyung, it’s not what I mean! There’s… There’s a ghost in the warehouse!” silence. But that silence doesn’t last long because Suho laughed. Suddenly Baekhyun, one of colleague just pop out from his office.

“ What happened?” he asked.

“Baek, listen to me-“

“Chanyeol said that there’s a ghost is the warehouse.” again I was cut off by Suho.

“Ghost? What the… Chanyeol I thought you don’t believe in that kind of thing?” he gave me the same expression that Suho gave me.

“I-I know! You guys listen to me!” I yelled.

“What’s going on?” someone asked. All of our heads turned towards Kris, our soon-to-be CEO.

“Kris, Chanyeol said that there’s a ghost in the warehouse.” Suho almost laughed, while Kris just nodding his head, signaling us to continue.

“It’s true! Hyung, there’s something near the 6^th aisle of th-“

“6^th aisle?” Kris asked. I can see his face turned pale all of the sudden, well almost.

“Hyung what’s wrong?” Baekhyun asked, he too realized Kris’s sudden pale face.

“I think what Chanyeol said was true.”

“W-what?” I asked.

“What? Kris don’t tell me you too? Suho sighed.

Then Kris told us about when he was new in this company, when he got assigned to check some stocks in the warehouse, when he too went to the 6^th aisle that was never existed and something that I saw. It sent chills down to our spine, even Baekhyun started to shiver.

“It’s because the warehouse didn’t get enough sunlight.” Kris finished.

“So you mean that thing just grow because of the darkness?” Suho asked, he started to believe what Kris and I were talking about.

“So that’s why that thing just backed away when it touches the sunglight…” I mumbled.

Kris sighed and nodded, “My grandfather said that long ago, there’s a massacre once around this area.” again Kris’s word sent chills all over our body, and that’s why I heard so many voices that I can’t distinguish.

“Our office doesn’t get haunted because our building has so many windows that can receive enough sunlight.” he continued.

“Why didn’t you ask your father to make some windows in the warehouse?” Baekhyun asked.

“Because he would never believed me if I said the warehouse was haunted, he would thought that I’m not serious for this company, that I’m just playing around. So I kept it in secret, and tried to forget about it.” he muttered.

“You can when you became the CEO then.” Suho smiled, giving us hope.

“Yeah, you’re right hyung.” I smiled too, knowing that I won’t see that dark shadows with red eyes anymore. We all smiled and agreed that it will be a secret between us, we don’t want rumors to spread like wildfire about the haunted warehouse. Soon we went back to our work and I went to the toilet to wash my hands, because it’s full of dust in the warehouse.

“Thank God, it’s going to be okay.” I said to myself while leaning my body on the sink while washing my hands. Suddenly one of the toilet door creaked open, and my head snapped up to the mirror and saw something reflected behind me. And soon it hit me, the toilet is a small room where you hardly find windows in it, where the sunlight hardly reached in. I can feel my heart stopped beating when I saw again those red eyes that looked like it wanted to eat me. That shadow figure that I saw not long ago in that dark warehouse…

YOU CAN’T RUN! 

Author's Note:

It's true though about the sunlight thing. I read it somewhere on a book that once there's a traveler that rented a room with no windows, so that he can stay there for a week or so. When he was about to sleep, he felt his bed cover is being pulled by some sort of shadows. The next day he asked the owner, and she said it's because the room didn't get enough of sunlight. So yeah, hello shadow people~ *waving*

By the way please check this new horror fic of mine A Stormy Night in Summer if you still want some more thriller stuffs~