By toluwanispecial on Skatehive
As mysterious as life is, it can be likened to the story of a school teacher who never imagined that life could take a turn beyond his expectations. He never thought he would go through the same traumatic experiences others had faced, largely because of his firm disbelief in such unimaginable occurrences, until he witnessed it himself. Late one night, Mr. Oliver was returning to his school on the outskirts of the hill station of Simla. He had been teaching in the school for many years. A bachelor, he usually strolled into town in the evening, returning after dark, often taking a shortcut through a pine forest. Whenever there was a strong wind, the pine trees made moaning, eerie sounds that kept most people on the main road. But Mr. Oliver was not a nervous or imaginative man. He carried a torch on this particular night, and its pale gleam, the batteries were running down, moved fitfully over the narrow forest path. When its flickering light fell on the figure of a boy sitting alone on