“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly276Please respect copyright.PENANAWuPBC1m5qs
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down276Please respect copyright.PENANA15c4HG8NmL
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My276Please respect copyright.PENANA9BB8ruEyOp
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by276Please respect copyright.PENANAIOuuAeepun
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in276Please respect copyright.PENANADRCTMxtMUS
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 he276Please respect copyright.PENANA0rQW54PXqp
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing276Please respect copyright.PENANAm2HT0ywow2
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d276Please respect copyright.PENANARr7LkiLSR4
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we276Please respect copyright.PENANAdsd5xroYCd
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,276Please respect copyright.PENANAkDXF6qWkTT
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains276Please respect copyright.PENANANu48XokaWA
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence276Please respect copyright.PENANAfN5HqQx1Ak
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically276Please respect copyright.PENANA6pBxPUwSrP
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and276Please respect copyright.PENANAF8MmUueSdK
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before276Please respect copyright.PENANAn3TjVvQD6o
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only276Please respect copyright.PENANAvdfYTVY6c2
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign276Please respect copyright.PENANADI5yqvWnuq
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never276Please respect copyright.PENANAlANHCS4IJQ
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was276Please respect copyright.PENANAl5rhIAjzQO
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the276Please respect copyright.PENANALIWF3cPJ7z
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,276Please respect copyright.PENANAz0EbOqmrpu
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he276Please respect copyright.PENANAVIYq0hYyVb
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment276Please respect copyright.PENANAQyfhDMHXwo
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, Aaron276Please respect copyright.PENANAvmPnqfotbG
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was276Please respect copyright.PENANAqcLEmO89Lw
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the276Please respect copyright.PENANAP4xqdUY5uc
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If276Please respect copyright.PENANAOlN5FyIhbG
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 understood276Please respect copyright.PENANA6gx77qmd4a
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he276Please respect copyright.PENANA7XtyM0361q
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck276Please respect copyright.PENANAY62mWE9712
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell276Please respect copyright.PENANAwlEj0llPvl
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into276Please respect copyright.PENANAMEI8bzqRLJ
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,276Please respect copyright.PENANAQeSuQh007Q
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know276Please respect copyright.PENANAy9tOcrtFPC
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At276Please respect copyright.PENANAeJ81hm3FyF
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was276Please respect copyright.PENANAvC0D25VrC1
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had276Please respect copyright.PENANA1WSrsW7Dzf
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because276Please respect copyright.PENANA9DoECfB3ca
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t276Please respect copyright.PENANAmu9yqpikmi
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,276Please respect copyright.PENANAv3ebQamuLa
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t276Please respect copyright.PENANA6wtLQ6cYGv
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the276Please respect copyright.PENANAaVoX4IYwYu
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the276Please respect copyright.PENANAvNXjJfiMOa
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or276Please respect copyright.PENANAIB4OoAu9Ff
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to276Please respect copyright.PENANAkRV3riupw6
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but276Please respect copyright.PENANAbMWcmlqOGk
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of276Please respect copyright.PENANAN4G6VpPEYu
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,276Please respect copyright.PENANAnXRIuvoBxl
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying276Please respect copyright.PENANATxUgx0vsJ8
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was276Please respect copyright.PENANARQoVJREge0
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if276Please respect copyright.PENANAhSlMEsSv6K
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the276Please respect copyright.PENANA092QShBoME
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking276Please respect copyright.PENANA9l7VV98zlI
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d276Please respect copyright.PENANApS00kK21Uu
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He276Please respect copyright.PENANA7zqaBJottr
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while276Please respect copyright.PENANAwLWw0jeeg1
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he276Please respect copyright.PENANAW6TmBuDTYW
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it276Please respect copyright.PENANA8AHzOiQ7Zq
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 moved276Please respect copyright.PENANAVPLK8xbbBF
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,276Please respect copyright.PENANAMXeQx43srs
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the276Please respect copyright.PENANA2saVToSzpf
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster276Please respect copyright.PENANAqCRpAqrcYR
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up276Please respect copyright.PENANAvpjVydxoVc
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with276Please respect copyright.PENANAtlKXLpFaFV
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV276Please respect copyright.PENANAesZ5oM4rFV
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and276Please respect copyright.PENANAr1krAVQF5r
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that276Please respect copyright.PENANA4z4Mk28uWx
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the276Please respect copyright.PENANAhE4LXTwyQj
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures276Please respect copyright.PENANAlR8JY0XPL8
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and276Please respect copyright.PENANAnvAg0adWtC
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner276Please respect copyright.PENANA6kVRn6hEDT
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And276Please respect copyright.PENANAprrXNCivWN
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have276Please respect copyright.PENANArwteBpaK8e
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things276Please respect copyright.PENANAt7QSIhtSvW
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls276Please respect copyright.PENANAqZNYBhdpGH
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed276Please respect copyright.PENANAUN3AWJFA82
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always276Please respect copyright.PENANAKoM0TWKa9Y
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear276Please respect copyright.PENANAfEu0MexADQ
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything276Please respect copyright.PENANAMaFNEMFDzV
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.276Please respect copyright.PENANAOUsOOSfWJM
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room276Please respect copyright.PENANAxp4Ary4YMg
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his276Please respect copyright.PENANAWUyROtu7XV
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that276Please respect copyright.PENANAvRujpdJAzw
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped276Please respect copyright.PENANAqgBElZ8clz
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t276Please respect copyright.PENANALVJtfMVjWD
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall276Please respect copyright.PENANAbifupzczt9
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb276Please respect copyright.PENANA3SHup7gx9L
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way276Please respect copyright.PENANAd04gSj7pUp
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from276Please respect copyright.PENANA8bOI5Vf854
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate276Please respect copyright.PENANAqy3xEkAS0c
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued276Please respect copyright.PENANA0Dmtdre1LU
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 and276Please respect copyright.PENANA0siu2XT7yp
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and276Please respect copyright.PENANAnQg4W7IDgo
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old276Please respect copyright.PENANAjUIHDjbFS7
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the276Please respect copyright.PENANAJMgnMhYrRl
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside276Please respect copyright.PENANAzArAYgCo3H
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was276Please respect copyright.PENANArpRsliqn7Q
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s276Please respect copyright.PENANA2jV21x8I4J
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 while276Please respect copyright.PENANAHQnhbKm1eL
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 the276Please respect copyright.PENANAcVCo7jpOjn
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,276Please respect copyright.PENANAkhPa2DFvEp
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s276Please respect copyright.PENANA6nK13dMTPp
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He276Please respect copyright.PENANAGXbEUrAfxl
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our276Please respect copyright.PENANAoi7CxSkiRA
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 continued276Please respect copyright.PENANAs7hfKglIuC
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 corner276Please respect copyright.PENANAkqakZDg1Br
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.276Please respect copyright.PENANA53RTh7GFTO
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the276Please respect copyright.PENANAR0nY44OYjp
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a276Please respect copyright.PENANAafPGtcFHLf
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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