“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly285Please respect copyright.PENANAfp5I5zlXO8
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down285Please respect copyright.PENANAHyfywwN4pu
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My285Please respect copyright.PENANAsecdBY8PTt
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by285Please respect copyright.PENANAfnVb4ZDKmz
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in285Please respect copyright.PENANAgppA8I2qAy
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 he285Please respect copyright.PENANA3ljvsctnCu
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing285Please respect copyright.PENANAPD7TpJPMnO
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d285Please respect copyright.PENANAvCOMFC9xTx
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we285Please respect copyright.PENANASZ3s8i0yEc
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,285Please respect copyright.PENANAbqdopNogB4
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains285Please respect copyright.PENANATEsRYGG5ko
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence285Please respect copyright.PENANAWo6RzVsXxi
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically285Please respect copyright.PENANAk2xvtfj1gP
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and285Please respect copyright.PENANAvpLR6n6bB4
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before285Please respect copyright.PENANAHEvLJtHR9p
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only285Please respect copyright.PENANA7CO97ZIIVk
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign285Please respect copyright.PENANAbSMTGmHI8U
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never285Please respect copyright.PENANAkmje4bF0wq
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was285Please respect copyright.PENANAklUx5Ftqhj
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the285Please respect copyright.PENANA8BAyPgVWUT
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,285Please respect copyright.PENANAozLcrDz7L0
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he285Please respect copyright.PENANAKYeVrXrOu8
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment285Please respect copyright.PENANAqHUdkaLr3U
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, Aaron285Please respect copyright.PENANAMPS5leTb2Q
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was285Please respect copyright.PENANAJwaTjsEpJY
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the285Please respect copyright.PENANAC22mKbQnwn
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If285Please respect copyright.PENANAdYkGMaAmw5
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 understood285Please respect copyright.PENANAC4bfAirP1D
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he285Please respect copyright.PENANAd2f1BSp0Uz
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck285Please respect copyright.PENANAbH1uQQ4Le6
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell285Please respect copyright.PENANAnJsFx0UXes
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into285Please respect copyright.PENANA33XFNFrikS
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,285Please respect copyright.PENANAhy0y5kEQSX
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know285Please respect copyright.PENANAhynRNuRSkC
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At285Please respect copyright.PENANAfiINDtblbA
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was285Please respect copyright.PENANAYZ6sEU7drh
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had285Please respect copyright.PENANAg0LCOvevWv
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because285Please respect copyright.PENANAm2MbvVXjmD
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t285Please respect copyright.PENANAW4mDYaP5Ij
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,285Please respect copyright.PENANAbGMXvwVeuy
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t285Please respect copyright.PENANABj4wMne1pE
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the285Please respect copyright.PENANApAgxwBgREQ
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the285Please respect copyright.PENANA5Rt2fC1AwS
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or285Please respect copyright.PENANAzwOLMfnEJx
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to285Please respect copyright.PENANAo08VpaXzY9
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but285Please respect copyright.PENANAzhJLMUqOkq
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of285Please respect copyright.PENANAAMOsiGwXFS
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,285Please respect copyright.PENANA0oHGVUsM59
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying285Please respect copyright.PENANAWCSj7icAix
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was285Please respect copyright.PENANAL3V1veGTUf
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if285Please respect copyright.PENANAqb9Pny0u7h
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the285Please respect copyright.PENANA50M1YMBBDL
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking285Please respect copyright.PENANAOtq0FQhokw
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d285Please respect copyright.PENANA22mfaVDZwy
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He285Please respect copyright.PENANAAKDiqpGzGF
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while285Please respect copyright.PENANAWwFLIEQY2u
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he285Please respect copyright.PENANAR9g1F5sQzM
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it285Please respect copyright.PENANAR3csj8y8rM
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 moved285Please respect copyright.PENANA6O3yjHrjjq
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,285Please respect copyright.PENANArIjGHCu7RG
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the285Please respect copyright.PENANAsnQZsFpNPD
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster285Please respect copyright.PENANAH8JIW8mz1K
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up285Please respect copyright.PENANAyAOGJfoy6b
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with285Please respect copyright.PENANAWZ7wYWnH7B
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV285Please respect copyright.PENANAb0m4QEDsWm
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and285Please respect copyright.PENANA3bfmyx56t1
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that285Please respect copyright.PENANAqTI739piAx
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the285Please respect copyright.PENANAIrhbaaKYLU
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures285Please respect copyright.PENANAVXPLleFvET
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and285Please respect copyright.PENANAhtt6NPZfnG
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner285Please respect copyright.PENANAC6ENfX9SMW
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And285Please respect copyright.PENANANWpAnvs4jZ
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have285Please respect copyright.PENANA4EkHMWgtcT
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things285Please respect copyright.PENANAEoDla4ozX7
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls285Please respect copyright.PENANA5FotLicOmo
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed285Please respect copyright.PENANAeKrjoH8l9n
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always285Please respect copyright.PENANALdrUIxNFqo
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear285Please respect copyright.PENANAUiiZG5ktZG
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything285Please respect copyright.PENANAur0AeZwCSj
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.285Please respect copyright.PENANAzW1vgRONOo
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room285Please respect copyright.PENANAhXpphkBFz0
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his285Please respect copyright.PENANAqY9CnzzLNp
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that285Please respect copyright.PENANAlHOx02cXze
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped285Please respect copyright.PENANALhOEpZcm9E
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t285Please respect copyright.PENANA3gWEOi5plk
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall285Please respect copyright.PENANAntrMT247mX
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb285Please respect copyright.PENANA2ywfOkkQA1
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way285Please respect copyright.PENANAqZUY6HrPwg
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from285Please respect copyright.PENANAYWnUZwcP7B
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate285Please respect copyright.PENANA6izEkVMD4S
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued285Please respect copyright.PENANAkR01yFnkYV
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 and285Please respect copyright.PENANAhBwq6ChwfK
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and285Please respect copyright.PENANAWbOcjpaRLI
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old285Please respect copyright.PENANAJp3H6rOL3s
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the285Please respect copyright.PENANAvVVv38Fy59
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside285Please respect copyright.PENANAdytkCCnwl0
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was285Please respect copyright.PENANAuamKPcax5r
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s285Please respect copyright.PENANAjRrPJTklDf
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 while285Please respect copyright.PENANAXqUEC9kFLr
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 the285Please respect copyright.PENANARHM8iG5VtH
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,285Please respect copyright.PENANAGtDPQWbnlp
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s285Please respect copyright.PENANAEmyx7SGou2
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He285Please respect copyright.PENANAGYvE029MdR
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our285Please respect copyright.PENANAhqog1iAfnA
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 continued285Please respect copyright.PENANAwl4XbQQdnh
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 corner285Please respect copyright.PENANAkKC6Vi9zS6
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.285Please respect copyright.PENANA8BYUjLR6hV
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the285Please respect copyright.PENANAGZjZTfs3zy
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a285Please respect copyright.PENANAbv4E8YlGLU
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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