This incident
happened at one of the higher education institutes in
Kuala Lumpur. Sarah was recently granted admission
into that institute. She was naturally all excited
about it. It was the first time she left her home to
live on her own and it would begin another new
chapter of her life.
She looked forward to
the registration day ever since she received that
acceptance letter from the Registrar. With her
baggage, Sarah arrived at the institute for
registration and was assigned to a room on the top
floor of the hostel.
As she was looking
for her room, she started to wonder who her roommate
would be and how is she like. She was all too
excited, yet curious, as she walked through the
corridors of the place she will spend the rest of her
university life.
Sarah finally found
her room on the top floor. She tried to open the door
but it was locked. She was a bit disappointed as she
thought if the door was locked, her roommate was
probably not in and hence she would not be able to
satisfy her curiosity regarding her roommate. She
opened the door with her keys and walked in to see
her roommate sleeping inside.
Sarah left her alone
and started unpacking her things. It is then that her
roommate woke up. They introduced themselves and
started a short conversation. Ina was indeed a very
pleasant girl. She has shoulder length hair with a
rather fair complexion.
Sarah and Ina got
along quite well for the rest of the semester.
Nevertheless, Ina only showed up after dusk every day
and she sleeps very little. To Sarah, Ina must have a
well social life and she didn't give it much thought.
Everything was well
until one night. It was a full moon night and the sky
was all clear. The hostel was all quiet as it was
very late then. The clock showed 3am and Sarah
decided she should go to bed already. She asked Ina
to switch off the room light and turned on her own
reading lamp. Without getting up, the room light was
switched off and Ina's reading lamp turned on. Sarah,
already lying on her bed felt strange but didn't
enquire further. She thought she was so tired that
she didn't even notice Ina got off her seat. However,
as she turned to look at Ina to say goodnight, she
noticed she could see through Ina. She thought she
was sleepy and was seeing things. She take another
careful look and she realised Ina was transparent!
Sarah began to have an uneasy feeling. She covered
herself up with her blanket and soon fell asleep.
The next day, Sarah
thought about what happened. She began to feel uneasy
with Ina. She recalled how nobody in the hostel know
about Ina and many expressed surprised that there is
such a person living in the hostel after all. She
started to think about the late nights Ina stayed up
and how she disappeared by dawn only to reappear by
dusk the next day.
Sarah went to the
Registrar's office to check if she could find
anything about Ina. The clerk told her she could not
disclose any information about anyone.
After much
persuasion, the clerk agreed to look up the files for
her. She was, however, told that she was not supposed
to have any roommate.
Sarah was afraid to
go back to her room that night. She spent the next
few nights at her friend's room and only went back to
get her stuff in the daytime. Sarah immediately
applied for a change of room and she was lucky to get
it.
Nonetheless, it was
still a mystery to Sarah as to the identity of Ina.
After all, Ina has been nothing but a nice roommate.
Perhaps, some things are better left alone for the
truth may be saddening or....
