“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly115Please respect copyright.PENANAy4Lv6kdhuH
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down115Please respect copyright.PENANAThBwJ7RrRa
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My115Please respect copyright.PENANA6Ueb2wziLv
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by115Please respect copyright.PENANA0J0qkqXm7U
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in115Please respect copyright.PENANAULLMk0arBq
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 he115Please respect copyright.PENANA0Pzs6tZnfv
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing115Please respect copyright.PENANAf6kTksjt5e
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d115Please respect copyright.PENANAL5RKqE4RQZ
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we115Please respect copyright.PENANA1jsvdZmrLN
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,115Please respect copyright.PENANAyPttYUT4rR
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains115Please respect copyright.PENANA47OJKgG6JV
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence115Please respect copyright.PENANAuAUy7TRKWE
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically115Please respect copyright.PENANAlMMh8WalXr
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and115Please respect copyright.PENANAZsm3uTDPLG
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before115Please respect copyright.PENANAQdKq2JCtpu
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only115Please respect copyright.PENANAAt2S5cj1F9
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign115Please respect copyright.PENANAn71K8slQhP
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never115Please respect copyright.PENANA6RDaWDr9xQ
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was115Please respect copyright.PENANAWVDrxHtYRK
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the115Please respect copyright.PENANAjz6aAWJZ2w
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,115Please respect copyright.PENANAleydbtK0Xj
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he115Please respect copyright.PENANASL25CU3bLS
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment115Please respect copyright.PENANAUweQqfGNJe
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, Aaron115Please respect copyright.PENANAEq3kW1Lrcg
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was115Please respect copyright.PENANAgpj9Uw7XSC
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the115Please respect copyright.PENANABuG5LC8QKx
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If115Please respect copyright.PENANAkMB32gX3ZB
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 understood115Please respect copyright.PENANAReiX90k0v1
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he115Please respect copyright.PENANAOz6fuAZlDa
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck115Please respect copyright.PENANAePQsFZ34hs
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell115Please respect copyright.PENANAu5MIvnhCnt
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into115Please respect copyright.PENANAvoqurbFbpb
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,115Please respect copyright.PENANAEBEdhVUhKI
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know115Please respect copyright.PENANAQArxU4S10C
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At115Please respect copyright.PENANAZx2vExambD
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was115Please respect copyright.PENANAGSThUL9Ak2
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had115Please respect copyright.PENANAPTctyRUPki
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because115Please respect copyright.PENANAvc85Ab96TR
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t115Please respect copyright.PENANA4mtPc8Xtsj
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,115Please respect copyright.PENANA4YlQfdD3PN
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t115Please respect copyright.PENANA5RwAWLoBqA
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the115Please respect copyright.PENANA5uZsnvQKNN
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the115Please respect copyright.PENANAvEnRDpHQAO
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or115Please respect copyright.PENANANMhl58MGdW
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to115Please respect copyright.PENANABZ9iUrtNd4
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but115Please respect copyright.PENANA1d1g3shslR
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of115Please respect copyright.PENANAVBza9fRpFL
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,115Please respect copyright.PENANAduLVwP3CmT
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying115Please respect copyright.PENANAcQ1y7OAFHf
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was115Please respect copyright.PENANAFkSwxF4kLd
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if115Please respect copyright.PENANAs90W80teXI
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the115Please respect copyright.PENANAT0G0NoO3qN
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking115Please respect copyright.PENANAlXSglzZzMT
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d115Please respect copyright.PENANARtomU34ieC
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He115Please respect copyright.PENANATSpoXT4Tyi
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while115Please respect copyright.PENANA25r6mSBF7x
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he115Please respect copyright.PENANAVm7iwj9gte
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it115Please respect copyright.PENANAb0IdAnOWai
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 moved115Please respect copyright.PENANA0wA48iBt6P
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,115Please respect copyright.PENANA54N47FyTRb
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the115Please respect copyright.PENANAAy8hLN4FAb
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster115Please respect copyright.PENANAFOMHGIDZkd
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up115Please respect copyright.PENANANHIme1J1n5
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with115Please respect copyright.PENANAmKwlcgG9Yf
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV115Please respect copyright.PENANAXvo8f8gBOw
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and115Please respect copyright.PENANAV8SdNNF4JR
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that115Please respect copyright.PENANAJEQVMmi6Tr
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the115Please respect copyright.PENANAejVD5gmB9j
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures115Please respect copyright.PENANAV2nD2OCUep
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and115Please respect copyright.PENANAeCzY7VhoYc
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner115Please respect copyright.PENANA6VmUJY126f
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And115Please respect copyright.PENANAXeD5GwNHcV
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have115Please respect copyright.PENANA119IfJTJHf
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things115Please respect copyright.PENANAGVRCpt3trk
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls115Please respect copyright.PENANAVDHy610OJz
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed115Please respect copyright.PENANAwbwcsFV9YK
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always115Please respect copyright.PENANACejKNvK9QK
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear115Please respect copyright.PENANAW9aLLSoOTJ
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything115Please respect copyright.PENANA9yrWAJN1nv
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.115Please respect copyright.PENANAoZKpG9lTKb
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room115Please respect copyright.PENANARTJmEHdm4T
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his115Please respect copyright.PENANAOJxm6y6orW
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that115Please respect copyright.PENANA7R4TGVz2FR
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped115Please respect copyright.PENANAFK1iOQyIv1
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t115Please respect copyright.PENANAXt20djaM4h
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall115Please respect copyright.PENANAcQ63Fq1G0q
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb115Please respect copyright.PENANANuiBNLVSHQ
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way115Please respect copyright.PENANAR8IcGZfTm2
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from115Please respect copyright.PENANAUWCdOgx0Xt
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate115Please respect copyright.PENANAkJiCXPkLEx
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued115Please respect copyright.PENANAFpSYptu7iZ
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 and115Please respect copyright.PENANAtV9GEWN9Mg
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and115Please respect copyright.PENANAwGT65PkQxD
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old115Please respect copyright.PENANAFCHQa7iLwi
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the115Please respect copyright.PENANAHcehmksuUI
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside115Please respect copyright.PENANAzOTHzFFSkM
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was115Please respect copyright.PENANA3r63C7fO1H
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s115Please respect copyright.PENANAHKZZDbRIN1
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 while115Please respect copyright.PENANA3ezQOikc1x
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 the115Please respect copyright.PENANAt97RnGYq6F
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,115Please respect copyright.PENANALBhUW17svT
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s115Please respect copyright.PENANAYDuLpjHiJT
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He115Please respect copyright.PENANAZeTF9WwUeh
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our115Please respect copyright.PENANAGCT52Js02B
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 continued115Please respect copyright.PENANAKZrrioMmdM
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 corner115Please respect copyright.PENANAOFjfi6wi3y
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.115Please respect copyright.PENANAONprdRacUj
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the115Please respect copyright.PENANA5PVqad1abw
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a115Please respect copyright.PENANAHdakcfdhbT
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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