Please Don't Look Up After Lights Out

Do Not Look Up After Lights Out

Excerpts from the evening study rules for Class 7, Grade 12:

1. If the lights flicker more than three times, lower your head, close your eyes, and count to forty. Do not look at the ceiling.

3. If you hear fingernails scraping a blackboard when no one is doing it, someone is scraping the underside of your desk. Don't look down.

4. At 1:07 a.m., an extra door will appear in the school building. Don't open it unless you're certain you've graduated.

5. "You are not alone." This is not reassurance. It's a warning.

A duty roster was tucked inside Lu Jinyan's diary. Every name on it had been crossed out, then rewritten in different-colored ink. He turned to the last page every day. It always held just one line, as if someone had added it while he slept:

"Do not look up after lights out. It likes the person who sees it first."

The blind spot where the lights are broken is by the third lamp at the end of the hallway. The cameras can't see it, and neither can... whatever else is there.