“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly105Please respect copyright.PENANAKFCrK5DHKX
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down105Please respect copyright.PENANAegJs9zv9BP
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My105Please respect copyright.PENANAmZXhenPdbP
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by105Please respect copyright.PENANAIN5y5n1l2X
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in105Please respect copyright.PENANATBbUUa2Pai
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 he105Please respect copyright.PENANAUSD1NSZWme
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing105Please respect copyright.PENANALYaCuPvhrC
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d105Please respect copyright.PENANAvfPmBD9Qp2
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we105Please respect copyright.PENANAor8V0I2R5a
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,105Please respect copyright.PENANA271RoC9F1X
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains105Please respect copyright.PENANAfMHulYYhrC
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence105Please respect copyright.PENANAudPygqbqaC
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically105Please respect copyright.PENANAjqovS24sV2
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and105Please respect copyright.PENANAIOVSvI5R4D
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before105Please respect copyright.PENANAZ15QRN7V25
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only105Please respect copyright.PENANAzgtHkrmPrI
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign105Please respect copyright.PENANAn48hv9kakF
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never105Please respect copyright.PENANATcSPSQI4VO
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was105Please respect copyright.PENANA3VJR0qwFWl
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the105Please respect copyright.PENANASXnuH0VOys
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,105Please respect copyright.PENANA9fs4wghWbL
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he105Please respect copyright.PENANAPRJ40XdBKv
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment105Please respect copyright.PENANAHfFD2rTLnM
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, Aaron105Please respect copyright.PENANAFqS4xLGk6B
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was105Please respect copyright.PENANAfNorav2bKz
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the105Please respect copyright.PENANA5Xq3rzu5Zq
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If105Please respect copyright.PENANAKcAzHcYMHr
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 understood105Please respect copyright.PENANAW7Bw95VmM5
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he105Please respect copyright.PENANAf0ATa2yxgM
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck105Please respect copyright.PENANAqt6XjoGQz8
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell105Please respect copyright.PENANAFCpYwbYYHg
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into105Please respect copyright.PENANAj0I1wtyG2T
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,105Please respect copyright.PENANAsY6aDSRwwK
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know105Please respect copyright.PENANAty39hpahb7
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At105Please respect copyright.PENANAsl03wpcDFc
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was105Please respect copyright.PENANAJ1QCUn0oDC
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had105Please respect copyright.PENANAuxDkehWu5S
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because105Please respect copyright.PENANAObMtjaPVnH
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t105Please respect copyright.PENANAe1k83MNAxW
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,105Please respect copyright.PENANAbIICgT6PFw
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t105Please respect copyright.PENANAgX4AlVxQhe
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the105Please respect copyright.PENANAEsJs56qrmk
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the105Please respect copyright.PENANAlJbuPlxScG
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or105Please respect copyright.PENANAGoRi0xveqI
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to105Please respect copyright.PENANAnpO8cLLaqT
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but105Please respect copyright.PENANAPGhMTykQTV
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of105Please respect copyright.PENANAhUSeyu1H4E
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,105Please respect copyright.PENANAA3hOpJOcfv
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying105Please respect copyright.PENANAagxqauUHSv
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was105Please respect copyright.PENANABNo4ClnoDW
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if105Please respect copyright.PENANAniVgQOOTTR
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the105Please respect copyright.PENANA8rHtQHBFn8
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking105Please respect copyright.PENANAFjmhoYJmPK
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d105Please respect copyright.PENANAZdme41n2Ql
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He105Please respect copyright.PENANAPDexxlzuoa
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while105Please respect copyright.PENANAAJYQnuNQ1r
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he105Please respect copyright.PENANA2kQQHHEELu
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it105Please respect copyright.PENANAvwZHDaD4kT
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 moved105Please respect copyright.PENANAmzfxLnrJAJ
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,105Please respect copyright.PENANAOcaf2TICLg
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the105Please respect copyright.PENANAyLVBAhfAY4
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster105Please respect copyright.PENANAXoWxFC689U
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up105Please respect copyright.PENANASVEVGrIQsr
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with105Please respect copyright.PENANA1jnEQaH9lN
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV105Please respect copyright.PENANAUMhg6QZ0jX
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and105Please respect copyright.PENANArZjLecRlxb
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that105Please respect copyright.PENANAy4QT3nzpGM
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the105Please respect copyright.PENANAJMbGvbB4XC
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures105Please respect copyright.PENANANk970p7yab
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and105Please respect copyright.PENANA97LAVv0hVl
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner105Please respect copyright.PENANARG9RqOq6o9
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And105Please respect copyright.PENANAm9xxESxtlC
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have105Please respect copyright.PENANAdaqu57jFRN
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things105Please respect copyright.PENANAgm9svIxQRz
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls105Please respect copyright.PENANAJIPPy5uOV4
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed105Please respect copyright.PENANACbLQ13PvpB
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always105Please respect copyright.PENANAmL2A0tsQAr
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear105Please respect copyright.PENANAjiIAdCgMum
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything105Please respect copyright.PENANAHWzESnia4H
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.105Please respect copyright.PENANAQ3zmvu1eMc
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room105Please respect copyright.PENANAMJ5ZYWhBWr
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his105Please respect copyright.PENANAtDpsSoEDHP
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that105Please respect copyright.PENANAAgyRjOjd2S
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped105Please respect copyright.PENANAEFRH2gKBdY
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t105Please respect copyright.PENANAirkS2fTtbN
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall105Please respect copyright.PENANAA59e2FlWyO
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb105Please respect copyright.PENANARlj1jK1A4v
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way105Please respect copyright.PENANA3HWoExLt9v
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from105Please respect copyright.PENANAECmtJcGSo8
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate105Please respect copyright.PENANAJACNI55Ymd
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued105Please respect copyright.PENANANHzgKBN7eS
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 and105Please respect copyright.PENANAdYcwo0Fmax
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and105Please respect copyright.PENANAVR9KNU5E8B
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old105Please respect copyright.PENANApL7XJDODlG
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the105Please respect copyright.PENANA7HoBhS8wxP
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside105Please respect copyright.PENANAagjCF6hZ1Y
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was105Please respect copyright.PENANAXJ990bD3XE
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s105Please respect copyright.PENANAA7CdQ2yZSi
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 while105Please respect copyright.PENANAYb8X0EtEz9
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 the105Please respect copyright.PENANAI5lUELsbu8
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,105Please respect copyright.PENANAMwwBGdvPHM
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s105Please respect copyright.PENANAAZH3DvbqOl
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He105Please respect copyright.PENANAIfcXGcT22N
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our105Please respect copyright.PENANAvbTdVOxXhW
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 continued105Please respect copyright.PENANAoLNxTJaW7j
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 corner105Please respect copyright.PENANAtKnFol5KMx
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.105Please respect copyright.PENANAT9oYA0ESUE
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the105Please respect copyright.PENANAq4SjYZL8vL
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a105Please respect copyright.PENANAWNnmVnkecW
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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