“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly96Please respect copyright.PENANASBEXWB8Q53
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down96Please respect copyright.PENANAEjL3vhUXio
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My96Please respect copyright.PENANAxhXjDd2RgP
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by96Please respect copyright.PENANAK47tTmWxxr
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in96Please respect copyright.PENANAwXxe27WD27
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 he96Please respect copyright.PENANAFV8mK7XFVG
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing96Please respect copyright.PENANAtgyjNR2VJZ
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d96Please respect copyright.PENANA2DofaroZqG
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we96Please respect copyright.PENANAyh0liCMEbD
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,96Please respect copyright.PENANAUliawwDUE1
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains96Please respect copyright.PENANAkVBOc28g20
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence96Please respect copyright.PENANAhJQqil0GNt
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically96Please respect copyright.PENANAj7HoQU32nj
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and96Please respect copyright.PENANAMGzptjjb6M
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before96Please respect copyright.PENANAxdPRb7fcIr
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only96Please respect copyright.PENANAJeIIXHfMN3
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign96Please respect copyright.PENANAXqRbNGmlkM
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never96Please respect copyright.PENANAaay3QBkuh2
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was96Please respect copyright.PENANAj0jUzPVLek
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the96Please respect copyright.PENANAGRvITMtbqv
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,96Please respect copyright.PENANA1qbRRT5gGk
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he96Please respect copyright.PENANAUgB4pkxaiQ
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment96Please respect copyright.PENANAfY6rYWgCGE
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, Aaron96Please respect copyright.PENANAPvRaEzYr1w
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was96Please respect copyright.PENANAEBUs15bjbr
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the96Please respect copyright.PENANAefZt7NQec1
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If96Please respect copyright.PENANAFIOMw1CBBI
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 understood96Please respect copyright.PENANAnw3vHS6iRy
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he96Please respect copyright.PENANAlDbSgY2rov
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck96Please respect copyright.PENANA0kTOSyTukV
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell96Please respect copyright.PENANAnma1x2zy8a
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into96Please respect copyright.PENANATj1UG8000C
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,96Please respect copyright.PENANA9PHvy5Bqza
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know96Please respect copyright.PENANA7c6J9gr2j7
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At96Please respect copyright.PENANAJSdaGjiqSY
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was96Please respect copyright.PENANAoAmJqCskdZ
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had96Please respect copyright.PENANArhxAqCT3uF
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because96Please respect copyright.PENANA9I7wQziu9J
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t96Please respect copyright.PENANAeoK9mjCB7B
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,96Please respect copyright.PENANAKtei5CwRwT
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t96Please respect copyright.PENANAuVsMI0zaUz
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the96Please respect copyright.PENANAlZ9alkvDWV
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the96Please respect copyright.PENANAqkCnY3TiqH
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or96Please respect copyright.PENANAASwcafKKh1
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to96Please respect copyright.PENANAkQ10XcupV6
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but96Please respect copyright.PENANAqNN89XxwAR
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of96Please respect copyright.PENANAZkhsW2zC7s
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,96Please respect copyright.PENANAr8ky3PvaOf
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying96Please respect copyright.PENANADrKOjbHBJM
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was96Please respect copyright.PENANA2JQQaFmQ3i
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if96Please respect copyright.PENANAYyJ18mXQio
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the96Please respect copyright.PENANAfe5umJdmJy
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking96Please respect copyright.PENANAZh9JXv8zFT
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d96Please respect copyright.PENANAXWGvwWrmC8
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He96Please respect copyright.PENANA90mQQNWB5Q
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while96Please respect copyright.PENANA9Yu0PjpeD4
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he96Please respect copyright.PENANANAlYjDbZo6
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it96Please respect copyright.PENANAP4xkNCTOGT
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 moved96Please respect copyright.PENANAKno3xOlMKR
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,96Please respect copyright.PENANAkGC6Zdck3j
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the96Please respect copyright.PENANAQPXbRphg54
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster96Please respect copyright.PENANA2TZ1H1kAGj
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up96Please respect copyright.PENANAqcaVcYHALT
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with96Please respect copyright.PENANAcDqLQczAiw
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV96Please respect copyright.PENANAi0iQqv09Gr
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and96Please respect copyright.PENANArjO2o7aD99
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that96Please respect copyright.PENANAusxkUEpoyv
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the96Please respect copyright.PENANADEo3cFifhR
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures96Please respect copyright.PENANA2s4AFtbtiV
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and96Please respect copyright.PENANAfQ4ClsAUtY
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner96Please respect copyright.PENANAJwWDWPOUdC
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And96Please respect copyright.PENANAanwZoY4ZRp
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have96Please respect copyright.PENANAIoQnT1LLgS
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things96Please respect copyright.PENANAFuSU87GE5G
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls96Please respect copyright.PENANAzch8gzW94l
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed96Please respect copyright.PENANAfFVZvfTAKV
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always96Please respect copyright.PENANA0mE4VMq7rl
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear96Please respect copyright.PENANACPbamHYKwx
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything96Please respect copyright.PENANAz1tGnfyxHX
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.96Please respect copyright.PENANASyDO5pdpF8
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room96Please respect copyright.PENANAoWMPqaQzGn
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his96Please respect copyright.PENANANFQTHMaEvZ
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that96Please respect copyright.PENANA6RdQUQk4PH
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped96Please respect copyright.PENANAvadUiPAn24
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t96Please respect copyright.PENANAyIP0woT21x
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall96Please respect copyright.PENANAC2MGYxneSK
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb96Please respect copyright.PENANA1IUcER7I73
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way96Please respect copyright.PENANANpcUnu10ix
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from96Please respect copyright.PENANAjq6hEekrm5
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate96Please respect copyright.PENANA6NcSwTX0u7
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued96Please respect copyright.PENANACZqQlYs71D
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 and96Please respect copyright.PENANA9ahLpoUTp4
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and96Please respect copyright.PENANAIbxIgMkboC
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old96Please respect copyright.PENANAOhsqHixrYc
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the96Please respect copyright.PENANAQPISuHb85L
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside96Please respect copyright.PENANAq3ELEyYbDD
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was96Please respect copyright.PENANASgS018sZ5L
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s96Please respect copyright.PENANADuzXRvM9An
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 while96Please respect copyright.PENANAVMHmiXImJF
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 the96Please respect copyright.PENANA4NBqDxEdpA
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,96Please respect copyright.PENANAodFnWqZo87
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s96Please respect copyright.PENANA9CcMMXsHjA
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He96Please respect copyright.PENANA92GuNRIFFe
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our96Please respect copyright.PENANAvJ9uzqZTAQ
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 continued96Please respect copyright.PENANAdo9us81PbT
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 corner96Please respect copyright.PENANAGZqRZ1k2x9
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.96Please respect copyright.PENANAmAo0EQ8DMs
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the96Please respect copyright.PENANAgEqgxu7lzn
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a96Please respect copyright.PENANAVs9sZrFxnp
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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