“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly104Please respect copyright.PENANAUHegtMAd4G
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down104Please respect copyright.PENANAXNroHaoSaa
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My104Please respect copyright.PENANAAtPQlZ0XHL
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by104Please respect copyright.PENANACq0YaaDj0s
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in104Please respect copyright.PENANAkJdRBq4ZU4
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 he104Please respect copyright.PENANALOPIi0yjXN
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing104Please respect copyright.PENANA1dVTQ1di3N
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d104Please respect copyright.PENANAzXafMVh7ms
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we104Please respect copyright.PENANAXRNoKDKspQ
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,104Please respect copyright.PENANAzB6pXqt3sf
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains104Please respect copyright.PENANAbC0HLRrS7b
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence104Please respect copyright.PENANAde7ekjcFfF
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically104Please respect copyright.PENANAQgtJf4m7H3
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and104Please respect copyright.PENANAhf5kXqOeWx
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before104Please respect copyright.PENANAr66cRdFwnX
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only104Please respect copyright.PENANAiVoMnhdPY6
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign104Please respect copyright.PENANAGEZIfjci1g
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never104Please respect copyright.PENANAnca0Xin01n
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was104Please respect copyright.PENANAB4nq2JdmW2
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the104Please respect copyright.PENANAsmNp9tGsrW
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,104Please respect copyright.PENANAg3NZm7ynWY
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he104Please respect copyright.PENANA3ihGoJTF2D
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment104Please respect copyright.PENANA0WUmxshWTt
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, Aaron104Please respect copyright.PENANAv9gAS8Peed
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was104Please respect copyright.PENANAfC4hosmtLh
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the104Please respect copyright.PENANARMvWHpzzic
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If104Please respect copyright.PENANAsn5FiN2dH3
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 understood104Please respect copyright.PENANAQrKDZzofbX
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he104Please respect copyright.PENANAHno4dkquZJ
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck104Please respect copyright.PENANABAkggSkzYR
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell104Please respect copyright.PENANA3eXmtQjDJ6
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into104Please respect copyright.PENANAbX9uMR1htV
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,104Please respect copyright.PENANAyyCbiRw01g
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know104Please respect copyright.PENANA9iRkXLCM5q
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At104Please respect copyright.PENANAQMK81nr8yc
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was104Please respect copyright.PENANA74UuEbdDok
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had104Please respect copyright.PENANA7xMNiKcw1B
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because104Please respect copyright.PENANAfmojmnwx0Q
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t104Please respect copyright.PENANAl6TMu5AOtr
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,104Please respect copyright.PENANAkyiVMFQlJI
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t104Please respect copyright.PENANAmvTlsusork
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the104Please respect copyright.PENANAog63SxCyCh
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the104Please respect copyright.PENANAPToMEdV3pQ
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or104Please respect copyright.PENANAcJxClq0yms
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to104Please respect copyright.PENANA3anOCNgBqR
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but104Please respect copyright.PENANA76vLm8a2xd
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of104Please respect copyright.PENANA7oheNsgy1H
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,104Please respect copyright.PENANAGA7S2C9P0l
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying104Please respect copyright.PENANAqhsOxBfR5S
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was104Please respect copyright.PENANAJGeTUOmFjU
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if104Please respect copyright.PENANAdzIBM6OuyI
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the104Please respect copyright.PENANAaBvKX65Ebh
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking104Please respect copyright.PENANAgTqaQ7DtzM
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d104Please respect copyright.PENANA2XIVh2juhk
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He104Please respect copyright.PENANA1B8ViWEPFM
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while104Please respect copyright.PENANAbTcSF0ag7d
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he104Please respect copyright.PENANARshDheWhwm
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it104Please respect copyright.PENANAtWaXjmoFnO
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 moved104Please respect copyright.PENANAGQ0d2zXox0
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,104Please respect copyright.PENANAkNmp7nddFT
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the104Please respect copyright.PENANAfFk1iHymPd
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster104Please respect copyright.PENANAxhrXp4j0wM
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up104Please respect copyright.PENANAHSf1vH2pao
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with104Please respect copyright.PENANAv4tIoQZq7L
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV104Please respect copyright.PENANASgBxFbmN8A
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and104Please respect copyright.PENANAJVPoqRnMOo
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that104Please respect copyright.PENANANjORdyqeyu
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the104Please respect copyright.PENANA9nAJgOAPKh
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures104Please respect copyright.PENANAp3HOoKNkIq
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and104Please respect copyright.PENANAD074t9XaPM
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner104Please respect copyright.PENANAC8kwRxPlMy
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And104Please respect copyright.PENANAMhReB9OXpS
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have104Please respect copyright.PENANAyBJEOs25kh
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things104Please respect copyright.PENANAlxxLwVumYO
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls104Please respect copyright.PENANAhXcdNGFcSo
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed104Please respect copyright.PENANAZrBu8BCbfO
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always104Please respect copyright.PENANAuy0lkSnQwO
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear104Please respect copyright.PENANAmsaOfVef01
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything104Please respect copyright.PENANAFORVPvxxvK
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.104Please respect copyright.PENANA23UcpwjabE
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room104Please respect copyright.PENANAA0MI4lu00a
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his104Please respect copyright.PENANABLfYD0z3Xw
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that104Please respect copyright.PENANAHYgS6CEggV
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped104Please respect copyright.PENANASkXSfSe1an
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t104Please respect copyright.PENANAixE8m8rteR
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall104Please respect copyright.PENANArqrAKf4LOe
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb104Please respect copyright.PENANA9RifJBnvid
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way104Please respect copyright.PENANAIITbKwSBgf
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from104Please respect copyright.PENANAnTWjr5wLH0
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate104Please respect copyright.PENANAHfxgtT9kBl
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued104Please respect copyright.PENANAbTbBf4SoTp
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 and104Please respect copyright.PENANA8Oc8ZjcwMi
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and104Please respect copyright.PENANANcg9le9uYC
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old104Please respect copyright.PENANAtO3j3fWNw8
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the104Please respect copyright.PENANAqI36clqUWi
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside104Please respect copyright.PENANA37OcTOGrRM
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was104Please respect copyright.PENANA2SLpIscbtS
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s104Please respect copyright.PENANAuyd6elfHhE
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 while104Please respect copyright.PENANAHeoac3JyOx
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 the104Please respect copyright.PENANAc8cF7sJazD
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,104Please respect copyright.PENANAusW2aHEUtz
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s104Please respect copyright.PENANAB12fibYOpx
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He104Please respect copyright.PENANAzMEujah8rE
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our104Please respect copyright.PENANAzUY49VGyVY
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 continued104Please respect copyright.PENANA7JS72VMKdH
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 corner104Please respect copyright.PENANArCxZq0U6mO
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.104Please respect copyright.PENANA5C2itlJevI
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the104Please respect copyright.PENANAzlUxaflbjr
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a104Please respect copyright.PENANAeydKSprYan
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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