“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly405Please respect copyright.PENANAXTLz9UP3aD
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down405Please respect copyright.PENANAnn9yZ025GF
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My405Please respect copyright.PENANA6csNr3kNrK
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by405Please respect copyright.PENANApTM5joNZB9
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in405Please respect copyright.PENANAlbDtQRQL1K
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 he405Please respect copyright.PENANADxfKyAbu1Q
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing405Please respect copyright.PENANAZRRTXbbw6G
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d405Please respect copyright.PENANAzaqRukuuo2
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we405Please respect copyright.PENANAVqa6pZvUKv
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,405Please respect copyright.PENANAVAsSq0ek8u
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains405Please respect copyright.PENANA2MJH7CBsbQ
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence405Please respect copyright.PENANAnUi7bahH5t
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically405Please respect copyright.PENANArAmd6wi6Wv
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and405Please respect copyright.PENANAVQGtaHISz1
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before405Please respect copyright.PENANAfe0CVjxoVV
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only405Please respect copyright.PENANAADdW2ndwUC
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign405Please respect copyright.PENANAwXCS9wnkDX
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never405Please respect copyright.PENANA3K2YAZ8s5B
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was405Please respect copyright.PENANAvADeVRtQZc
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the405Please respect copyright.PENANAUuXMW0hW72
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,405Please respect copyright.PENANAHw9lVaYjNT
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he405Please respect copyright.PENANAy5XLlxdTwi
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment405Please respect copyright.PENANAcQBBZyzxAV
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, Aaron405Please respect copyright.PENANAd8VSdk3J1b
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was405Please respect copyright.PENANApryXRnOtUo
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the405Please respect copyright.PENANAdcdm1Gm7FM
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If405Please respect copyright.PENANAZhKJAej8xy
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 understood405Please respect copyright.PENANAzotqD7Ws1C
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he405Please respect copyright.PENANAGCsgJoiHz7
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck405Please respect copyright.PENANAx08pc3bwuF
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell405Please respect copyright.PENANARkY4JudOTa
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into405Please respect copyright.PENANAOYCwMtFNSw
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,405Please respect copyright.PENANATmHzllseFN
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know405Please respect copyright.PENANAe3DQSnVbER
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At405Please respect copyright.PENANAcJZITKkWwk
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was405Please respect copyright.PENANA1LjAoHSH7a
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had405Please respect copyright.PENANAdXTDiNBzif
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because405Please respect copyright.PENANAfT7n1NNZVH
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t405Please respect copyright.PENANAVJ9sIS09cK
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,405Please respect copyright.PENANAIO7Tm58xOA
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t405Please respect copyright.PENANAoOEit26Yxq
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the405Please respect copyright.PENANA8KGja5gtS3
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the405Please respect copyright.PENANAuAhJZQReQJ
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or405Please respect copyright.PENANAJnGPfbQwKt
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to405Please respect copyright.PENANA00CRBUGuxx
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but405Please respect copyright.PENANAw4iPg6fAzT
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of405Please respect copyright.PENANAx8DrCDLuWU
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,405Please respect copyright.PENANAgKxIBULeaR
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying405Please respect copyright.PENANAimHtwl29Y3
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was405Please respect copyright.PENANAf50b6LTOTy
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if405Please respect copyright.PENANAYlGQfZkobk
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the405Please respect copyright.PENANAooNCe6yJL0
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking405Please respect copyright.PENANAOvzGbkIqyZ
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d405Please respect copyright.PENANA4BqKTy0z0L
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He405Please respect copyright.PENANAWystmdbCb8
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while405Please respect copyright.PENANAqX3lJKgpJf
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he405Please respect copyright.PENANAorVW3LD2tJ
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it405Please respect copyright.PENANAuCdOtgC62I
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 moved405Please respect copyright.PENANA579el4GJCv
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,405Please respect copyright.PENANAgS2s758tDe
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the405Please respect copyright.PENANAXW14jgT6cb
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster405Please respect copyright.PENANAEUZfbnKKFj
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up405Please respect copyright.PENANA959UnwLK53
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with405Please respect copyright.PENANA9jQUB25Knr
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV405Please respect copyright.PENANASh0xpbnuzz
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and405Please respect copyright.PENANAFT0cJeI2ff
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that405Please respect copyright.PENANATbRt3CB1vb
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the405Please respect copyright.PENANAZrX5nVOD3E
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures405Please respect copyright.PENANAEry1ywmLrS
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and405Please respect copyright.PENANAXyNlmjAL82
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner405Please respect copyright.PENANAL0jMVnnJLk
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And405Please respect copyright.PENANANTtPYvOor1
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have405Please respect copyright.PENANAuvYVBx7gi6
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things405Please respect copyright.PENANAjfyG58UWzd
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls405Please respect copyright.PENANAZbipzDmwQg
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed405Please respect copyright.PENANAjml2b416J1
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always405Please respect copyright.PENANAltmj5tExvB
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear405Please respect copyright.PENANA6iI1dPFZBd
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything405Please respect copyright.PENANA8UJosOkJZg
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.405Please respect copyright.PENANAFYX7wCpAjV
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room405Please respect copyright.PENANAQL8wDyErWI
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his405Please respect copyright.PENANA0bC0a106VH
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that405Please respect copyright.PENANAUC9UzHjnVW
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped405Please respect copyright.PENANApFeB6qTuFy
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t405Please respect copyright.PENANAEA9zC0oW8Q
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall405Please respect copyright.PENANAC8eAaozkNa
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb405Please respect copyright.PENANA30q2IDIlVm
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way405Please respect copyright.PENANAySA20ciVRF
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from405Please respect copyright.PENANArWP2qzp4pn
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate405Please respect copyright.PENANAiQrqtrVsFb
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued405Please respect copyright.PENANAznPL2ZRmi6
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 and405Please respect copyright.PENANAWeD0AtnzBr
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and405Please respect copyright.PENANAc8cvVlfdU3
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old405Please respect copyright.PENANA4GufQirjuK
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the405Please respect copyright.PENANAhKVoNcxAcv
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside405Please respect copyright.PENANAamEdpNHqlE
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was405Please respect copyright.PENANAsNhdtX4C88
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s405Please respect copyright.PENANAG4ZA6zsYeC
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 while405Please respect copyright.PENANACBgDb61EJH
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 the405Please respect copyright.PENANALzNV9gYsQZ
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,405Please respect copyright.PENANAN9gtuVU0bP
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s405Please respect copyright.PENANAnNUNrgYVOd
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He405Please respect copyright.PENANA1JhyywtluF
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our405Please respect copyright.PENANAvCQzorF5fZ
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 continued405Please respect copyright.PENANA13rvGSzps9
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 corner405Please respect copyright.PENANA1kmOwwVN12
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.405Please respect copyright.PENANAdHuirpBkT4
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the405Please respect copyright.PENANAMxIzMHJa2J
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a405Please respect copyright.PENANAu3iXUIOkFR
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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