“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly447Please respect copyright.PENANAwZhBvs54j7
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down447Please respect copyright.PENANA9y7IvpiSik
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My447Please respect copyright.PENANAzjCDCnvFCf
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by447Please respect copyright.PENANAcmpkAC4DSW
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in447Please respect copyright.PENANArHMlANabur
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 he447Please respect copyright.PENANA3xWUobLt0q
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing447Please respect copyright.PENANASOBqnybELh
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d447Please respect copyright.PENANAn0knSacHUH
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we447Please respect copyright.PENANA1MXcJCTSzS
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,447Please respect copyright.PENANAEGaQtKS6RE
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains447Please respect copyright.PENANAmWLw4do5hE
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence447Please respect copyright.PENANAU7sRmjn312
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically447Please respect copyright.PENANAopsTq3sSYj
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and447Please respect copyright.PENANAWzonWNioXE
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before447Please respect copyright.PENANATFxfYFPq0b
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only447Please respect copyright.PENANADjRbXAbbJ0
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign447Please respect copyright.PENANASuUbSKqNmb
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never447Please respect copyright.PENANARoFjVettzy
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was447Please respect copyright.PENANAjLjOdW5j3P
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the447Please respect copyright.PENANAN46vTTGjR1
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,447Please respect copyright.PENANA6RqyG8kZpY
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he447Please respect copyright.PENANAZmx32Indem
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment447Please respect copyright.PENANAFySOb69IwZ
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, Aaron447Please respect copyright.PENANAnFgLP2xNRX
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was447Please respect copyright.PENANA6AABTkAxrN
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the447Please respect copyright.PENANAgd0098RSSs
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If447Please respect copyright.PENANAms4reH0QaH
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 understood447Please respect copyright.PENANAMD810j1xRH
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he447Please respect copyright.PENANAjK3byprKNZ
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck447Please respect copyright.PENANArD8A4KLZFs
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell447Please respect copyright.PENANA2r43yhFRdh
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into447Please respect copyright.PENANAODbLBezN1t
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,447Please respect copyright.PENANAED8y4TwWM1
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know447Please respect copyright.PENANAXdyDTT9tZf
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At447Please respect copyright.PENANAiuTjKv4dHA
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was447Please respect copyright.PENANAFqU9V7sLU1
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had447Please respect copyright.PENANAwr1HZUVrxY
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because447Please respect copyright.PENANAoFZw0T4rxB
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t447Please respect copyright.PENANAXcf2Zj25ES
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,447Please respect copyright.PENANANDBOMS0ppV
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t447Please respect copyright.PENANAicvr7YDuti
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the447Please respect copyright.PENANAUd43xI8Nxd
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the447Please respect copyright.PENANAqTINNF4x7a
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or447Please respect copyright.PENANAVTaj5fsDSV
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to447Please respect copyright.PENANAIB7M8r3chW
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but447Please respect copyright.PENANAligDPl2pRH
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of447Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5gSDtrnvt
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,447Please respect copyright.PENANANHol2AMzDn
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying447Please respect copyright.PENANADUcaKh93jH
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was447Please respect copyright.PENANAFM11Z0x4oD
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if447Please respect copyright.PENANAfS3o59tpx5
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the447Please respect copyright.PENANA3hcPo7AX6X
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking447Please respect copyright.PENANAXilif08fbL
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d447Please respect copyright.PENANAIQ1ObGTWCc
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He447Please respect copyright.PENANAh8HqWRxSQu
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while447Please respect copyright.PENANA405AbJpp8o
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he447Please respect copyright.PENANA9W3Wr1CvdT
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it447Please respect copyright.PENANAVawRe6DlEt
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 moved447Please respect copyright.PENANAGbKqNaENzL
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,447Please respect copyright.PENANApGcE6VsGAW
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the447Please respect copyright.PENANACyWUHtOoPx
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster447Please respect copyright.PENANAo9XyJoIblP
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up447Please respect copyright.PENANAAtetyrUOzn
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with447Please respect copyright.PENANAsBy6ZAvQfE
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV447Please respect copyright.PENANAJhVXWiE0x0
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and447Please respect copyright.PENANAaWXbXJzOHo
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that447Please respect copyright.PENANAYM5IWflURD
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the447Please respect copyright.PENANAH36Lj8JB5J
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures447Please respect copyright.PENANAKon58vje0K
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and447Please respect copyright.PENANAD7zq0Wc7Il
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner447Please respect copyright.PENANAm3RG7aEYAG
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And447Please respect copyright.PENANADsveDLeWc5
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have447Please respect copyright.PENANA0HCCJr0UED
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things447Please respect copyright.PENANA1GJGdLjOez
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls447Please respect copyright.PENANAHtdaLhm5so
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed447Please respect copyright.PENANANVlwCLgXpn
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always447Please respect copyright.PENANA2seY2U5buK
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear447Please respect copyright.PENANAC7r9JcNHWb
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything447Please respect copyright.PENANA1YVoe53Sem
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.447Please respect copyright.PENANAHAYm23T0tm
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room447Please respect copyright.PENANAQkvouKc0aw
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his447Please respect copyright.PENANAPkZClJfqAY
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that447Please respect copyright.PENANAd1oS2266M8
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped447Please respect copyright.PENANAp36nvLfMgy
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t447Please respect copyright.PENANAfj4jQBWvoy
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall447Please respect copyright.PENANAYlSe4K2rjh
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb447Please respect copyright.PENANAVOvwlSTLpQ
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way447Please respect copyright.PENANA7dE8UiFfia
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from447Please respect copyright.PENANAYF2bWJJ2Qw
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate447Please respect copyright.PENANAVdZNl32TIP
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued447Please respect copyright.PENANAIwDh7F4jEH
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 and447Please respect copyright.PENANAhirLFrY2TQ
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and447Please respect copyright.PENANAp6mkHCZLrq
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old447Please respect copyright.PENANALmm3xciZH2
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the447Please respect copyright.PENANAYLxM7g14Ny
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside447Please respect copyright.PENANAm6bBqgo9J7
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was447Please respect copyright.PENANA68Rs6ZjR9V
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s447Please respect copyright.PENANAwHNgsMVi59
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 while447Please respect copyright.PENANAdSia03OGNM
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 the447Please respect copyright.PENANAYzAJT3PjKl
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,447Please respect copyright.PENANAt24bVeGI0S
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s447Please respect copyright.PENANAC2XNL5jLVd
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He447Please respect copyright.PENANAVX3qg6fT2b
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our447Please respect copyright.PENANAc2DOn6BvQM
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 continued447Please respect copyright.PENANAh22UBEVpa2
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 corner447Please respect copyright.PENANAJzXFtzKmOj
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.447Please respect copyright.PENANAOOQ2Dt0hjg
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the447Please respect copyright.PENANAEQbHx7atsy
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a447Please respect copyright.PENANACulpY9rkwL
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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