“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly432Please respect copyright.PENANAQS3aXlKiwt
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down432Please respect copyright.PENANAL8eJpuRb2j
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My432Please respect copyright.PENANASiF9rso4o9
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by432Please respect copyright.PENANAmkrbJtSfZh
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in432Please respect copyright.PENANACTg9Ipi0Lq
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 he432Please respect copyright.PENANAM2wBIj1QLK
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing432Please respect copyright.PENANAw2CKDhOHJH
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d432Please respect copyright.PENANAqAeIua38Vh
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we432Please respect copyright.PENANAq6uhIHtenj
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,432Please respect copyright.PENANAjfgwQAqEDy
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains432Please respect copyright.PENANAXm56vLxEZH
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence432Please respect copyright.PENANASLj56ar3lW
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically432Please respect copyright.PENANAbOw7wWoUf5
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and432Please respect copyright.PENANA3Oc68cV7oB
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before432Please respect copyright.PENANARfUJpauTQT
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only432Please respect copyright.PENANAR21ZMlaEp6
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign432Please respect copyright.PENANAifColecUyX
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never432Please respect copyright.PENANAqNYtzuHJNU
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was432Please respect copyright.PENANA9iL3MrnSUO
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the432Please respect copyright.PENANARWn4xnO9Mk
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,432Please respect copyright.PENANAfPppJEXirO
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he432Please respect copyright.PENANAVPhuqRZRc0
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment432Please respect copyright.PENANA2z6BwIV5Rg
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, Aaron432Please respect copyright.PENANAFXxmMnke0X
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was432Please respect copyright.PENANAN6iXclJvNg
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the432Please respect copyright.PENANApClZlbB0AD
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If432Please respect copyright.PENANAiXQyRQdyyb
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 understood432Please respect copyright.PENANAHdcfAYr9Fg
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he432Please respect copyright.PENANAqlnXuNwQ7S
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck432Please respect copyright.PENANAaQkBTGJgPJ
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell432Please respect copyright.PENANAieNQrx6Hfq
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into432Please respect copyright.PENANAxCuCPLSltX
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,432Please respect copyright.PENANArW72MVIzMw
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know432Please respect copyright.PENANAmonRJBonl6
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At432Please respect copyright.PENANAhSmnTkLjvP
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was432Please respect copyright.PENANANAChSiDB72
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had432Please respect copyright.PENANA7ogrmakeOL
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because432Please respect copyright.PENANAwLrLAEFFu9
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t432Please respect copyright.PENANAD7TqKnYj7R
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,432Please respect copyright.PENANA7niOZBiLge
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t432Please respect copyright.PENANABfZNfai178
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the432Please respect copyright.PENANA4sfSQdCDKp
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the432Please respect copyright.PENANArEg2vY7TQA
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or432Please respect copyright.PENANANiNcSKBh5B
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to432Please respect copyright.PENANAXK9YYAu8YQ
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but432Please respect copyright.PENANA1gQu8ZuFLO
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of432Please respect copyright.PENANAS0znR6cJ00
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,432Please respect copyright.PENANAsw7KbUuPjH
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying432Please respect copyright.PENANArj52K87wsW
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was432Please respect copyright.PENANAjejhxwtkhh
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if432Please respect copyright.PENANAaYGadEunpK
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the432Please respect copyright.PENANAMpz7oe5f28
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking432Please respect copyright.PENANArfM5WuURQU
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d432Please respect copyright.PENANA3DkGC92l5S
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He432Please respect copyright.PENANAf2z77uhE8D
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while432Please respect copyright.PENANAhMGCiBLfFE
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he432Please respect copyright.PENANAZOdWaCiK1L
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it432Please respect copyright.PENANApcWYUuLi0u
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 moved432Please respect copyright.PENANA1ZRHENHvyd
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,432Please respect copyright.PENANA0asXPgS0PS
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the432Please respect copyright.PENANAI5hhzy64gO
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster432Please respect copyright.PENANAR4GJLbqJfn
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up432Please respect copyright.PENANAik5ukjCEg1
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with432Please respect copyright.PENANAphPv3Tx4cL
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV432Please respect copyright.PENANAjpCgNrhJ2J
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and432Please respect copyright.PENANAJ3trhlGBVG
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that432Please respect copyright.PENANAmSKXByKCKp
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the432Please respect copyright.PENANAMUNr2NefrC
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures432Please respect copyright.PENANAJaqvIWjuEw
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and432Please respect copyright.PENANAD3024LU68E
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner432Please respect copyright.PENANAIXSF3e4Z6c
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And432Please respect copyright.PENANAtLvUJkAtoO
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have432Please respect copyright.PENANAJxFYyCFggH
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things432Please respect copyright.PENANA5z0dpeC8LY
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls432Please respect copyright.PENANAR8mv7xaMqV
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed432Please respect copyright.PENANAV9TZccR0MN
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always432Please respect copyright.PENANAc5NNj7JrT6
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear432Please respect copyright.PENANAYSzrcCOvST
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything432Please respect copyright.PENANAxR78OfewSf
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.432Please respect copyright.PENANAsY1knJnmtJ
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room432Please respect copyright.PENANA1EjYAiAaMU
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his432Please respect copyright.PENANAIf5yl5UVZm
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that432Please respect copyright.PENANA1TNNK3owYD
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped432Please respect copyright.PENANA5s3QW0s7cV
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t432Please respect copyright.PENANACIT3InBqNF
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall432Please respect copyright.PENANAybBfnr0DnX
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb432Please respect copyright.PENANAfSll0gihnd
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way432Please respect copyright.PENANAHBiV41ICVc
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from432Please respect copyright.PENANA2zPbmkCC5d
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate432Please respect copyright.PENANADRyI7ApFd0
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued432Please respect copyright.PENANAvYQWuen4iT
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 and432Please respect copyright.PENANAy5ohdbAQqO
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and432Please respect copyright.PENANAeMDjqeUrqz
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old432Please respect copyright.PENANAw9dGQAvPck
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the432Please respect copyright.PENANAkU9n5nGT0T
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside432Please respect copyright.PENANAQqg4Tbc8gb
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was432Please respect copyright.PENANAixhT2OCcmb
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s432Please respect copyright.PENANANIwdE925sz
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 while432Please respect copyright.PENANA3vd1bkStu3
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 the432Please respect copyright.PENANAhXAuT57mdB
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,432Please respect copyright.PENANALOKhjyq4QR
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s432Please respect copyright.PENANAgfM5GnfO25
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He432Please respect copyright.PENANAc2ftYcG0Ca
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our432Please respect copyright.PENANAV22SlPNxFZ
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 continued432Please respect copyright.PENANAcIJXjvMNJ6
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 corner432Please respect copyright.PENANA4R94mUe2QS
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.432Please respect copyright.PENANANFV3bFQsVk
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the432Please respect copyright.PENANAZetM7doQjG
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a432Please respect copyright.PENANA2gcP1tOQqa
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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