“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly318Please respect copyright.PENANAzRi9wjSPHl
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down318Please respect copyright.PENANA2iT7n0w5KA
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My318Please respect copyright.PENANAK8egYgV0N0
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by318Please respect copyright.PENANAX7RgROjNQy
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in318Please respect copyright.PENANAj1bBHxCPHK
last night and here you are sleeping by the front door.”
Aaron didn’t think it’d be wise to bring up the fact that he318Please respect copyright.PENANA9llnBcS64I
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing318Please respect copyright.PENANAsP0728x9RQ
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d318Please respect copyright.PENANAw6K29O1nvK
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we318Please respect copyright.PENANAmfmaRsbUOM
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,318Please respect copyright.PENANACYnTtNcY5p
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains318Please respect copyright.PENANAB7pY5Aoexz
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence318Please respect copyright.PENANAfUmdVK0M9a
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically318Please respect copyright.PENANAMneepFp51L
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and318Please respect copyright.PENANAg0qjAmQu1F
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before318Please respect copyright.PENANAK3AYWH0UI8
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only318Please respect copyright.PENANASXnILX4Yk0
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign318Please respect copyright.PENANA4QkAui5rLU
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never318Please respect copyright.PENANAmweBdEsGzA
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was318Please respect copyright.PENANAco9LSql8V2
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the318Please respect copyright.PENANA8B0eW6BZs5
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,318Please respect copyright.PENANAfyMDEbhf3K
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he318Please respect copyright.PENANA32zbKDgmYO
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment318Please respect copyright.PENANAnEH2OrcNBr
if his ghost wasn’t haunting Aaron’s bedroom.
In other words, Caleb was dead, and no one knew it.
Remembering all the horror films he had ever watched, Aaron318Please respect copyright.PENANAdaPyD2x9Em
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was318Please respect copyright.PENANAc4Ldu7oaSU
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the318Please respect copyright.PENANAPjm8jUz31T
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If318Please respect copyright.PENANA132ArE3PFa
he was in the walls, then he’d most likely be in the walls of his bedroom…
Aaron shivered.
When he moved in with a group of virtual strangers, he understood318Please respect copyright.PENANAVRBR0QOOvF
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he318Please respect copyright.PENANAtIuadNQg47
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck318Please respect copyright.PENANAR21TmqLYaf
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell318Please respect copyright.PENANAoQHCil2MSA
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into318Please respect copyright.PENANA9IeywJGHXM
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,318Please respect copyright.PENANAouQc57tynd
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know318Please respect copyright.PENANA7MGvBkC4i9
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At318Please respect copyright.PENANA1AVAqkujWv
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was318Please respect copyright.PENANADGrjgjUyAu
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had318Please respect copyright.PENANA4FbF0C1xrI
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because318Please respect copyright.PENANAcz7sQy5y4f
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t318Please respect copyright.PENANAf5kLeRYqta
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,318Please respect copyright.PENANAnnPAvJBW6j
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t318Please respect copyright.PENANAwtWoiaLcVP
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the318Please respect copyright.PENANAB9pJq42hvQ
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the318Please respect copyright.PENANAz7PBWjlvDI
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or318Please respect copyright.PENANACM350VDXk6
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to318Please respect copyright.PENANAM6a0OER2lh
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but318Please respect copyright.PENANADhpgbUZfGo
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of318Please respect copyright.PENANAyMkGc1e7Va
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,318Please respect copyright.PENANAZHQTuuvC1x
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying318Please respect copyright.PENANAni6LQyaKRd
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was318Please respect copyright.PENANA1vsPKcwrO0
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if318Please respect copyright.PENANAOWgAc88Lfx
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the318Please respect copyright.PENANAcNEHnapBte
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking318Please respect copyright.PENANA8RKT2CTm5L
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d318Please respect copyright.PENANAHWf44SaV8B
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He318Please respect copyright.PENANAsY8q9KgaQ8
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while318Please respect copyright.PENANAHbd9Om93Nz
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he318Please respect copyright.PENANAZh5jU0Es5g
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it318Please respect copyright.PENANAL3vjHH5kTv
and grabbed a Pop-tart instead. Then he turned to find the toaster which was…. Missing?
No wait, it’s over by the fridge now. Who the heck moved318Please respect copyright.PENANAb9G7SAIkLr
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,318Please respect copyright.PENANAIPNwWMgTHT
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the318Please respect copyright.PENANAxznieZBvkl
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster318Please respect copyright.PENANAohUaZIFBvE
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up318Please respect copyright.PENANA4mS3sVzGKI
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with318Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4CE4Bw4il
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV318Please respect copyright.PENANAAoCE9lcDB8
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and318Please respect copyright.PENANAFgouUXo92K
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that318Please respect copyright.PENANAeotkhfTsKo
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the318Please respect copyright.PENANAOQrxaqwgG1
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures318Please respect copyright.PENANAk4MiB0BigZ
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and318Please respect copyright.PENANAKchRytNYyq
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner318Please respect copyright.PENANAEuSOhQ9HtH
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And318Please respect copyright.PENANALhAueIxDOO
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have318Please respect copyright.PENANAvSKYtExuR2
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things318Please respect copyright.PENANAweO5i7YDSD
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls318Please respect copyright.PENANAlArAs4ITK6
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed318Please respect copyright.PENANAr63yWTBPA2
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always318Please respect copyright.PENANAR64JL8ng10
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear318Please respect copyright.PENANA4r1GOPhFFo
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything318Please respect copyright.PENANAf0GXKorOQa
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.318Please respect copyright.PENANAOJAlYWYxka
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room318Please respect copyright.PENANAdmaEXZxWJx
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his318Please respect copyright.PENANAUgL6ryg0ZL
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that318Please respect copyright.PENANAQferdROQyO
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped318Please respect copyright.PENANAdBkPwhOyh5
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t318Please respect copyright.PENANA4QCC0TrXNZ
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall318Please respect copyright.PENANAdkF0nJ4N56
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb318Please respect copyright.PENANA6RMHyrLQlK
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way318Please respect copyright.PENANAL49er3myi4
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from318Please respect copyright.PENANAlP76ARF5aL
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate318Please respect copyright.PENANAl6t7hfW6Td
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued318Please respect copyright.PENANAhNf62aJWFM
to bang harder and harder, practically shaking the whole door off its hinges.
“Who’s there?” Aaron called.
No response.
“I’m calling the cops!” He shouted, his voice trembling and318Please respect copyright.PENANADKspmJoDOz
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and318Please respect copyright.PENANA48ptc6V2fy
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old318Please respect copyright.PENANA4vfbqnNE3y
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the318Please respect copyright.PENANApJhXeNtqPL
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside318Please respect copyright.PENANAe1gBO4MslW
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was318Please respect copyright.PENANAGCYs0ZUAFt
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s318Please respect copyright.PENANAKZ6wFjKwq3
going on?” He recognized that as Todd’s voice.
“Aaron’s banging on the front door!” Doug replied.
“No I wasn’t!” Aaron defended himself. “Someone else was!”
“It’s true.” Trevor agreed. “I was standing behind him while318Please respect copyright.PENANApp2J2np13k
it was happening. It wasn’t Aaron.”
“Are you saying it’s the same crazy bastard from before?”
“Maybe.”
“What the fuck? Why are they knocking on our door?”
Aaron started to check all the windows, wondering where the318Please respect copyright.PENANACWCrGvWZaN
sun had gone. “Hey guys what time is it?”
“1:00 AM” Doug answered.
“That cant be. It was light out a second ago.” Aaron mumbled,318Please respect copyright.PENANA8iG86Rdetu
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s318Please respect copyright.PENANARxwfYr1yue
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He318Please respect copyright.PENANAzYhHPH8lzz
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our318Please respect copyright.PENANAcI9Tlobz9U
door doesn’t cut it out, I’m getting his ass on video and call the cops on him.”
The rest of the guys agreed and started to disperse. Aaron continued318Please respect copyright.PENANAr8NLSy3S2X
to stare at the door in disbelief, then rubbed his eyes.
Had he been sleepwalking?
Returning to his room, he shut the door eyeing the corner318Please respect copyright.PENANAL9FXi6YvmC
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.318Please respect copyright.PENANAqGsuEJtRPL
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the318Please respect copyright.PENANAzLd4tar3z4
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a318Please respect copyright.PENANAUWKN407b1W
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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