“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly483Please respect copyright.PENANAm2LLssd7Dr
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down483Please respect copyright.PENANA8LSNAEhUI5
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My483Please respect copyright.PENANAPF7yofBe0R
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by483Please respect copyright.PENANAKXahxWxvyE
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in483Please respect copyright.PENANA6Q0F2tfZm2
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 he483Please respect copyright.PENANAuIcen7mkV4
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing483Please respect copyright.PENANAHSJ1VhuqUF
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d483Please respect copyright.PENANAzyg4U36mBR
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we483Please respect copyright.PENANAN0bV26BV6k
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,483Please respect copyright.PENANAIY0AxZCfvh
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains483Please respect copyright.PENANA6gnNHaatds
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence483Please respect copyright.PENANA5zP8ESOSGx
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically483Please respect copyright.PENANAKPqon1BxW1
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and483Please respect copyright.PENANA06PKAe7N2n
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before483Please respect copyright.PENANA12HRwKfJQu
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only483Please respect copyright.PENANAvWpQLVzyw6
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign483Please respect copyright.PENANApzlajsFRWk
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never483Please respect copyright.PENANAMn1V1wt9c7
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was483Please respect copyright.PENANAuqliGCrcFr
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the483Please respect copyright.PENANAIeYQ3KDW9p
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,483Please respect copyright.PENANAooqyxkdkbn
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he483Please respect copyright.PENANALD90u5IO6L
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment483Please respect copyright.PENANAfmjaCPSc7H
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, Aaron483Please respect copyright.PENANAoE2kWEuEeM
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was483Please respect copyright.PENANAPygoL93x2W
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the483Please respect copyright.PENANAQ8ZH8lvkE0
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If483Please respect copyright.PENANAujugaGPimV
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 understood483Please respect copyright.PENANAB2hBEensTT
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he483Please respect copyright.PENANARZN4VE2y1y
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck483Please respect copyright.PENANA0lk8Py8r7A
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell483Please respect copyright.PENANA4Z8n2OkR17
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into483Please respect copyright.PENANAjyOgalil0y
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,483Please respect copyright.PENANATFlXDUnA5X
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know483Please respect copyright.PENANAxEisHDGA69
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At483Please respect copyright.PENANAGCiZTlx0Lz
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was483Please respect copyright.PENANAXTfR9Xjmzf
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had483Please respect copyright.PENANAZ2gp1r4BSd
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because483Please respect copyright.PENANA4o8q2AkHnp
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t483Please respect copyright.PENANA3MJNEaur1K
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,483Please respect copyright.PENANAO6ZmZm9C3m
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t483Please respect copyright.PENANAm52soHivZY
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the483Please respect copyright.PENANAdjZ7aFaAtx
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the483Please respect copyright.PENANAo0qO1vtPaJ
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or483Please respect copyright.PENANAOFdR9hdIOB
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to483Please respect copyright.PENANAIMl9FNeVfR
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but483Please respect copyright.PENANAPHBTWAlx9V
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of483Please respect copyright.PENANA8dEWgJgZm1
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,483Please respect copyright.PENANADNggr7UDHS
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying483Please respect copyright.PENANAsPLP4xZRVJ
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was483Please respect copyright.PENANAvcpG1xNyjN
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if483Please respect copyright.PENANAceE2QstEFm
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the483Please respect copyright.PENANABfv16plL86
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking483Please respect copyright.PENANA63MkOjcXLj
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d483Please respect copyright.PENANA0DuLeqjJuU
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He483Please respect copyright.PENANA49LwnpKvNv
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while483Please respect copyright.PENANAC3WbtsOKRB
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he483Please respect copyright.PENANAKQPxxZ3HTR
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it483Please respect copyright.PENANAhHJoZJoZmh
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 moved483Please respect copyright.PENANAv5Zy0KwHwa
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,483Please respect copyright.PENANApBTy1Ob7QM
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the483Please respect copyright.PENANAaoRKofOPbf
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster483Please respect copyright.PENANAHHakh3KfYC
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up483Please respect copyright.PENANAbpGKRMvKRS
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with483Please respect copyright.PENANARLgupfoAvY
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV483Please respect copyright.PENANA2DpdCoGBNF
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and483Please respect copyright.PENANAVEXtW05iIe
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that483Please respect copyright.PENANAZWlebFOZau
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the483Please respect copyright.PENANAA0UeyPaeG4
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures483Please respect copyright.PENANAbPWodXai9M
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and483Please respect copyright.PENANAEPFiGqCvGY
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner483Please respect copyright.PENANAOoDTId0N27
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And483Please respect copyright.PENANAfBnyv1KBg1
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have483Please respect copyright.PENANAxeIZDfPQRL
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things483Please respect copyright.PENANAJJa1P8RH8V
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls483Please respect copyright.PENANAkq7aPuOAqx
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed483Please respect copyright.PENANAfpRQO4mjXp
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always483Please respect copyright.PENANAtSa5BRhN5t
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear483Please respect copyright.PENANAqkfS7sbVxX
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything483Please respect copyright.PENANAjBb2urFFQS
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.483Please respect copyright.PENANAdVemHt59X9
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room483Please respect copyright.PENANAIUx7KenCjZ
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his483Please respect copyright.PENANA34lESUKseX
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that483Please respect copyright.PENANABxtPLsejx3
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped483Please respect copyright.PENANAgJfF78cYG6
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t483Please respect copyright.PENANAdiKE62XF8K
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall483Please respect copyright.PENANAsLahEAPMCV
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb483Please respect copyright.PENANA5Iv4iIn0Qb
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way483Please respect copyright.PENANAS1Vj3mbwmi
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from483Please respect copyright.PENANAqxzWbekQ88
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate483Please respect copyright.PENANARYEB62wtnL
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued483Please respect copyright.PENANAP9k6lz2s6I
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 and483Please respect copyright.PENANAeKzMwnLtod
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and483Please respect copyright.PENANAAqI37vnWvp
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old483Please respect copyright.PENANA1aNw6zyZQ7
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the483Please respect copyright.PENANA3q9hWiDqv9
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside483Please respect copyright.PENANA9mWFUWdDOx
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was483Please respect copyright.PENANArnurtQjHdx
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s483Please respect copyright.PENANAYeNMNepa3W
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 while483Please respect copyright.PENANAvmTlGZa9IY
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 the483Please respect copyright.PENANAPllaJh40lY
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,483Please respect copyright.PENANAY2liezCSvI
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s483Please respect copyright.PENANAZnmkWaWqGk
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He483Please respect copyright.PENANA0xmcXf1mRN
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our483Please respect copyright.PENANAjDImAwYUlA
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 continued483Please respect copyright.PENANAGQPxipHgWC
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 corner483Please respect copyright.PENANAFE5aCOgO6Z
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.483Please respect copyright.PENANAbqvaP2MVJa
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the483Please respect copyright.PENANAcghLJvvOgT
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a483Please respect copyright.PENANAigQgGRgVCW
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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