A strange boy

One day a new boy appeared in our class. He was quite ordinary and boring. The only unusual thing about him was that his eyes were always hidden behind big sunglasses. Our teacher seated him behind the desk in the far corner of the room and everyone immediately forgot about him. 

The strange boy seemed to disappear, and no one noticed him. He didn’t play with any of the students. He didn’t speak to anyone, and he never responded to any of the questions that were asked by teachers. He was never seen in the school cafeteria, and when the bell rang at the end of the last period, he remained seated at his desk, while other kids ran out of school. 

The strange boy had been studying in school without any problems for two weeks, but one day a girl was playing with a ball in the classroom during a lunch break. She threw it too hard, and it hit the boy in the head and knocked his sunglasses off. The girl came up to him to pick up the ball and apologize, but when she looked into his eyes, she screamed hysterically and fainted.  

Students brought the girl to the school health center. When the girl recovered consciousness, she refused to speak. She huddled in a corner, covering her head with her hands. The teacher asked other students what had happened, they said that the girl was afraid of the strange boy. When he didn’t wear glasses, it looked as if he had no eyes - only red holes where his eyes were supposed to be. 

The teacher decided to call his parents, but when she came to the teachers’ common room to find his address, she found out that all his documents were missing. She managed to find his name and address only through the Internet.  

The next day, during a lunch break, while the boy was still sitting in the classroom, the teacher got into her car and drove to his house. When she got to his house, she rang the doorbell, and an old woman, dressed from head to toe in black, opened the door  

- I would like to talk to you about your son - said the teacher.  

- You're too late - the old woman said. - He died a year ago. 

The old woman asked the teacher to come in and showed her a picture of her dead son. It was the same strange little boy who had been going to school for two weeks. The teacher was so shocked that she immediately fainted.  

An hour later, the teacher and the doctor returned to school. They entered the classroom and pulled the strange boy away from his desk despite his resistance and screaming. They couldn’t feel his pulse and declared him dead. The little boy had died in an accident a year before, but his thirst for learning was so strong that he came back from the dead and went to school. 

The worst thing was that the boy continued to fight with superhuman strength, trying to kick the doctor and the nurse. Finally, they tied his hands and feet and put him in a coffin. When he was put into the grave, you could see how violently he was shaking the coffin from side to side, trying to loosen the ropes.  

Many people say that if you go to cemetery late at night, you can still hear the muffled screams of the strange red-eyed boy from underground.