“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly426Please respect copyright.PENANAmWM5rwLR49
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down426Please respect copyright.PENANAjuovZtYB4N
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My426Please respect copyright.PENANAqPvANqCD53
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by426Please respect copyright.PENANAnMqtA4mUep
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in426Please respect copyright.PENANAitRmgVjfZS
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 he426Please respect copyright.PENANArI8DWxBUzp
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing426Please respect copyright.PENANAQdpb44FI2x
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d426Please respect copyright.PENANASkpW36BZF1
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we426Please respect copyright.PENANA2hmW8Ho34M
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,426Please respect copyright.PENANADoF9G7xqBp
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains426Please respect copyright.PENANAdjlyZshayu
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence426Please respect copyright.PENANAZihobLPykN
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically426Please respect copyright.PENANA9HtBSI2xYn
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and426Please respect copyright.PENANA700kDKqiy7
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before426Please respect copyright.PENANAiB959DUCBE
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only426Please respect copyright.PENANAMkbGkJ4NwQ
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign426Please respect copyright.PENANAyQwVOVdX4I
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never426Please respect copyright.PENANAuxFGWzGktO
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was426Please respect copyright.PENANAVOVOalScI2
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the426Please respect copyright.PENANAOHhgLE31OR
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,426Please respect copyright.PENANACiw7giPT46
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he426Please respect copyright.PENANAsorYt6rdef
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment426Please respect copyright.PENANAZD7vA10pu8
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, Aaron426Please respect copyright.PENANArsSsUuRtdz
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was426Please respect copyright.PENANALG3OnoloWv
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the426Please respect copyright.PENANAKpJAK0DfCf
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If426Please respect copyright.PENANAB8SAErO15a
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 understood426Please respect copyright.PENANAwcKMo6qIJT
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he426Please respect copyright.PENANApYghh6tkm0
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck426Please respect copyright.PENANAlI5BEA4Fu4
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell426Please respect copyright.PENANAIbByAkhVvh
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into426Please respect copyright.PENANAuVM25AR7Il
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,426Please respect copyright.PENANAlKidiBJyyo
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know426Please respect copyright.PENANA59E6Fz21Mo
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At426Please respect copyright.PENANACRqbzi7upJ
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was426Please respect copyright.PENANAhfWTxiEOE1
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had426Please respect copyright.PENANAqt38wCIl8j
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because426Please respect copyright.PENANAdYZSMZfIzv
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t426Please respect copyright.PENANAV4O5pivpqC
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,426Please respect copyright.PENANA4P0HRXIWoE
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t426Please respect copyright.PENANAvP9OL7DYJh
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the426Please respect copyright.PENANAN3j2RcwdNC
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the426Please respect copyright.PENANAfzlcFscOBv
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or426Please respect copyright.PENANAgrWwMLVFw3
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to426Please respect copyright.PENANA7MQb2lTKjv
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but426Please respect copyright.PENANAtMAwXCdjSd
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of426Please respect copyright.PENANAAKHI6neD5e
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,426Please respect copyright.PENANA4PYTaqC3rX
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying426Please respect copyright.PENANAUEtFpkCnTj
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was426Please respect copyright.PENANAjNXdow1eFn
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if426Please respect copyright.PENANATjLmw0KSmj
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the426Please respect copyright.PENANAYVSKoNBUok
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking426Please respect copyright.PENANAfO01YUfF7e
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d426Please respect copyright.PENANAVdQR6QIYPD
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He426Please respect copyright.PENANA8wCrpkRC02
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while426Please respect copyright.PENANAbEJnZVd8zN
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he426Please respect copyright.PENANAPqdF7jcgBV
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it426Please respect copyright.PENANAVdYQL7OyGY
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 moved426Please respect copyright.PENANATKy27qEZVG
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,426Please respect copyright.PENANAmNfZA80iCd
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the426Please respect copyright.PENANASWY8C9BfPe
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster426Please respect copyright.PENANAyJ6buEUI0U
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up426Please respect copyright.PENANAI2dhtaTsYN
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with426Please respect copyright.PENANAhkTpVFh6xV
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV426Please respect copyright.PENANAP7bHMaoFXQ
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and426Please respect copyright.PENANAaorHqesJAh
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that426Please respect copyright.PENANAm1kBfDX34m
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the426Please respect copyright.PENANA9F3IMWQzJF
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures426Please respect copyright.PENANAcPDb72OOgZ
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and426Please respect copyright.PENANAh4B91xNbSJ
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner426Please respect copyright.PENANAimhlLFoC8w
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And426Please respect copyright.PENANAzj9H4eJiY1
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have426Please respect copyright.PENANAmB0JQfPayZ
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things426Please respect copyright.PENANAJWFpOK0AJD
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls426Please respect copyright.PENANAywndreUuFE
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed426Please respect copyright.PENANAxR7INkH30M
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always426Please respect copyright.PENANA6PBoMN0Psi
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear426Please respect copyright.PENANA7mOax4wpB5
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything426Please respect copyright.PENANAV6yQLlGacc
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.426Please respect copyright.PENANA5la8z6lsYo
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room426Please respect copyright.PENANA55YUDXFPod
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his426Please respect copyright.PENANACeeNie3lZP
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that426Please respect copyright.PENANAFh71rf1FAN
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped426Please respect copyright.PENANA1jqziSEtDh
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t426Please respect copyright.PENANABUNIqGgTQs
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall426Please respect copyright.PENANAzvfyTwZejp
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb426Please respect copyright.PENANAR2lUdLEKPg
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way426Please respect copyright.PENANALTwF1DGsVE
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from426Please respect copyright.PENANAna0ynzGZ69
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate426Please respect copyright.PENANAPG3pKH6Rfh
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued426Please respect copyright.PENANAh3QGGfo4HQ
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 and426Please respect copyright.PENANAmiEBh2h6sD
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and426Please respect copyright.PENANAtS13twXvPE
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old426Please respect copyright.PENANA3DubzKhdlo
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the426Please respect copyright.PENANA2lRTZ0sUk0
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside426Please respect copyright.PENANAnvkmiTQ5aT
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was426Please respect copyright.PENANAYm3wN0lUF1
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s426Please respect copyright.PENANAlKyZ5ySywm
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 while426Please respect copyright.PENANAjsvO6WZ3G3
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 the426Please respect copyright.PENANADcPL1CTaYn
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,426Please respect copyright.PENANACPfqXANg53
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s426Please respect copyright.PENANARigiRFcMMI
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He426Please respect copyright.PENANAzyFmtDBWTN
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our426Please respect copyright.PENANA7vj9RuBP9w
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 continued426Please respect copyright.PENANAJg0IlkDSnn
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 corner426Please respect copyright.PENANAoP8Th1bN2a
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.426Please respect copyright.PENANA1f1H5b5uvd
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the426Please respect copyright.PENANABAkYUPSadO
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a426Please respect copyright.PENANAW2gC3umSXX
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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