“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly93Please respect copyright.PENANASJVp2xjf7g
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down93Please respect copyright.PENANA1vSIDgxMI8
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My93Please respect copyright.PENANAHwxmWI2GIk
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by93Please respect copyright.PENANAERkrb7hRBJ
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in93Please respect copyright.PENANAfckBFfmmAB
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 he93Please respect copyright.PENANAIMgtxWPjFg
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing93Please respect copyright.PENANAUavkAmbVL3
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d93Please respect copyright.PENANAHZrANDVcnY
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we93Please respect copyright.PENANAbt93x1AZIT
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,93Please respect copyright.PENANAA0S7f2OZ9Z
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains93Please respect copyright.PENANAGVR94sMFkg
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence93Please respect copyright.PENANA9jYYuGiWfo
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically93Please respect copyright.PENANAXlU8qPyV3K
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and93Please respect copyright.PENANAGJ8VeAxDju
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before93Please respect copyright.PENANAD08RpzNUhd
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only93Please respect copyright.PENANAak3W39BoeQ
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign93Please respect copyright.PENANAeZMo33AxX7
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never93Please respect copyright.PENANADg68SlB0We
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was93Please respect copyright.PENANAFWwytfKHRj
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the93Please respect copyright.PENANAi7ah1bNKye
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,93Please respect copyright.PENANAKsG2NIAfQz
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he93Please respect copyright.PENANAH8SEaiM4LZ
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment93Please respect copyright.PENANA2cFWXdmHGM
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, Aaron93Please respect copyright.PENANAMIVcYVXcJI
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was93Please respect copyright.PENANAnTaoJaSCyM
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the93Please respect copyright.PENANAusa3it2Q6L
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If93Please respect copyright.PENANA2VL4TYkx8y
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 understood93Please respect copyright.PENANAPsGzApXqNo
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he93Please respect copyright.PENANAcpbC2N1EyP
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck93Please respect copyright.PENANA9XGCuhiYDd
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell93Please respect copyright.PENANAh07k33QzcB
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into93Please respect copyright.PENANAWOdYpEMilq
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,93Please respect copyright.PENANAXmHwXHtdfm
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know93Please respect copyright.PENANAqMaHcp8wze
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At93Please respect copyright.PENANAS66wKKbCER
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was93Please respect copyright.PENANArRM17bu97r
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had93Please respect copyright.PENANAeZM5jVgnjQ
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because93Please respect copyright.PENANAGM1kOpYx0m
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t93Please respect copyright.PENANArSAq2K4Sey
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,93Please respect copyright.PENANABFykfPTqkT
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t93Please respect copyright.PENANA5jvuJRR5n0
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the93Please respect copyright.PENANAZbtywUM2t9
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the93Please respect copyright.PENANAnC2IRiqpQO
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or93Please respect copyright.PENANAF7NIDfbztD
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to93Please respect copyright.PENANAz3wWkY2aSC
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but93Please respect copyright.PENANAMLXnoGN2JP
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of93Please respect copyright.PENANAm9xEPKVeB6
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,93Please respect copyright.PENANAuEVFvJ6J4M
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying93Please respect copyright.PENANAfvHc1VKeAk
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was93Please respect copyright.PENANApdRrazyOr5
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if93Please respect copyright.PENANAfWovVqxNNf
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the93Please respect copyright.PENANAzGMMnfb1zb
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking93Please respect copyright.PENANAgGzeztQLhu
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d93Please respect copyright.PENANAhO0ivM4emK
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He93Please respect copyright.PENANAwWLlWF2MVJ
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while93Please respect copyright.PENANAv4DOoRPzFP
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he93Please respect copyright.PENANAKkV3xkbbHU
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it93Please respect copyright.PENANA0PUA4v6a16
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 moved93Please respect copyright.PENANAfXPXeRi8We
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,93Please respect copyright.PENANA3O8HCv3Whj
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the93Please respect copyright.PENANAFDqMbgKPEw
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster93Please respect copyright.PENANA3SoXToUAnW
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up93Please respect copyright.PENANAX74owsiJnn
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with93Please respect copyright.PENANAnrg4gGMgWA
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV93Please respect copyright.PENANAmEaNmAo26b
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and93Please respect copyright.PENANABUTUl1B0IP
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that93Please respect copyright.PENANAXkxRPtnQjF
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the93Please respect copyright.PENANAiJ3dTyVbq7
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures93Please respect copyright.PENANAnDna3FInDY
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and93Please respect copyright.PENANAVFnjUXGdHv
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner93Please respect copyright.PENANAqaGECDGfVw
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And93Please respect copyright.PENANAau3goMSCbM
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have93Please respect copyright.PENANAxID6eOuK0J
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things93Please respect copyright.PENANAVl9xTGIztO
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls93Please respect copyright.PENANA3yoaXkZw4e
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed93Please respect copyright.PENANAxJmF2BuLUg
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always93Please respect copyright.PENANArWE1ZgF5Ay
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear93Please respect copyright.PENANAwOyp0ofSUs
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything93Please respect copyright.PENANAe5a07pOEuj
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.93Please respect copyright.PENANAZEWlMVqPou
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room93Please respect copyright.PENANArBg75f2vFO
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his93Please respect copyright.PENANANe3PORIKqa
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that93Please respect copyright.PENANAqkFBsFvgYT
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped93Please respect copyright.PENANAMu0MSHVPOi
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t93Please respect copyright.PENANAmLh6MjArX6
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall93Please respect copyright.PENANA982V5qceyD
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb93Please respect copyright.PENANAGh9IG3UIaz
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way93Please respect copyright.PENANAlbq1vogPgE
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from93Please respect copyright.PENANAPyM6IkH2uX
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate93Please respect copyright.PENANA6XdejnYWnw
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued93Please respect copyright.PENANANaoGdjRwPY
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 and93Please respect copyright.PENANAOCAkKRybnC
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and93Please respect copyright.PENANAfkxOK2r35c
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old93Please respect copyright.PENANA5mPoPOBiBY
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the93Please respect copyright.PENANABeOudEzokp
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside93Please respect copyright.PENANAiXx4FwZ3W1
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was93Please respect copyright.PENANAmq5vvMotoQ
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s93Please respect copyright.PENANAxJLyQCBwLc
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 while93Please respect copyright.PENANA0b2nIn3L95
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 the93Please respect copyright.PENANAligqJ2ivT9
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,93Please respect copyright.PENANApNKJSmCZTC
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s93Please respect copyright.PENANAjzn1AiOHEB
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He93Please respect copyright.PENANA6xtAzuXefI
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our93Please respect copyright.PENANAzVid17KfoR
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 continued93Please respect copyright.PENANAjYeT6sKsd0
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 corner93Please respect copyright.PENANAmRWF4avFPO
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.93Please respect copyright.PENANAn5597KCNaT
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the93Please respect copyright.PENANAFcORxQYDQn
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a93Please respect copyright.PENANA5hVvgLHwS7
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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