The tip of the pen stops, and the crooked traces circle the five letters. Lucy’s face goes very white, and she screams and drops the pen.

Everyone has a numb scalp. Daniel turns on the light in the room.

“What does this mean? Is the Pen Fairy going to kill us?” There is a timid girl in the crowd already crying.

Judy smiles and says, “Well, don’t be afraid. I was just kidding.”

The frozen atmosphere gradually eases.

“But this game will hold a ceremony to send the Pen Fairy away at the end. The rite was interrupted just now,” Judy explains.

“You should stop trying to scare me. I won’t be fooled,” Lucy says with a smile.

“Well, well, I apologize. I’ll go to the bar and get some more wine.” There is a corridor from the banquet hall to the wine rack. Judy grins and goes outside.

Some of my classmates are good at playing guitar and drums, and so we begin to sing and dance.

People begin to realize that it has been an hour since Judy left the room. As the clock strikes midnight, the thunder outside the window roars like a bomb explosion.

When Daniel asked the manager to check all the surveillance but found no trace of Judy, everyone falls silent.

“Judy’s not pranking again, is she?” Lucy tries to lighten the mood.

“This place is cursed! Someone from us has disappeared. I want to go home.” I don’t know who said these words.

Go home. More and more people are asking to go home. Some female students even gathered around and began to cry.

But we cannot leave now. Heavy rain falls on the glass as if it’s a natural barrier, blinding the scene outside. Even more disturbing is that the hotel has no cell phone reception. This place is cut off from the outside world by the heavy rain.
We try to walk back the same way we came. When we walk out of the hotel’s door, however, we find that the dense raindrops make it difficult for us to move. We can’t see the road or the direction we’re heading towards. We can’t even hear each other through the sound of thunder and rain. In desperation, we returned to the hotel.