“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly377Please respect copyright.PENANATFXTym9D47
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down377Please respect copyright.PENANAqhNCmRHtRb
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My377Please respect copyright.PENANAQFT1vb3Ned
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by377Please respect copyright.PENANAJXpW2TfMBv
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in377Please respect copyright.PENANAjfJwGaaFUN
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 he377Please respect copyright.PENANAn4OTCeY0GN
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing377Please respect copyright.PENANANCLL5mTKNQ
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d377Please respect copyright.PENANAb0iL9HfpmC
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we377Please respect copyright.PENANA70FydSS5nL
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,377Please respect copyright.PENANAVoR3gDwz7r
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains377Please respect copyright.PENANAzH8bVggKKn
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence377Please respect copyright.PENANAYmeptcNCKr
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically377Please respect copyright.PENANAkNjCxFDfI7
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and377Please respect copyright.PENANAsvdMbeObSB
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before377Please respect copyright.PENANAFBEvJIbDi4
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only377Please respect copyright.PENANAziTtXZGsab
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign377Please respect copyright.PENANAN5smxguqwd
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never377Please respect copyright.PENANAUz6OFNo6lU
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was377Please respect copyright.PENANApbLqgtyEbw
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the377Please respect copyright.PENANAD31BA0gf7v
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,377Please respect copyright.PENANAfIAxw3kV7f
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he377Please respect copyright.PENANAd5iFXMTHzt
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment377Please respect copyright.PENANAw8WlZ7W4Ou
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, Aaron377Please respect copyright.PENANA99ZHyJWsJN
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was377Please respect copyright.PENANAzZd4zpn3x3
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the377Please respect copyright.PENANAe3r8jknbAh
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If377Please respect copyright.PENANAE6z2TgTAk1
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 understood377Please respect copyright.PENANAMmFE2FcvDJ
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he377Please respect copyright.PENANAsM140tywOZ
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck377Please respect copyright.PENANAZSvdrp2p35
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell377Please respect copyright.PENANAjq1E33i6P2
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into377Please respect copyright.PENANAAFFWQZKTMp
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,377Please respect copyright.PENANA21Hm2iGC97
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know377Please respect copyright.PENANAigMyn4V6mS
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At377Please respect copyright.PENANAJSVLXwbQdN
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was377Please respect copyright.PENANAUUqsqm2BWr
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had377Please respect copyright.PENANArGHcZojCKe
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because377Please respect copyright.PENANAVHMbppg5l5
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t377Please respect copyright.PENANAkhQ3qEt1qN
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,377Please respect copyright.PENANAAhti3gzbRg
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t377Please respect copyright.PENANAdW8BwCI9ln
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the377Please respect copyright.PENANA4lBPXFGs6w
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the377Please respect copyright.PENANAJTxqBvYSxy
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or377Please respect copyright.PENANAIO6jZ8aTPW
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to377Please respect copyright.PENANAo45dMsdnCF
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but377Please respect copyright.PENANAP8jdrvTuAx
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of377Please respect copyright.PENANAeLNyvhg36b
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,377Please respect copyright.PENANActIaaP9QhZ
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying377Please respect copyright.PENANAWBMLblEhzE
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was377Please respect copyright.PENANALwNljOe0Gc
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if377Please respect copyright.PENANAJbnDzsQopY
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the377Please respect copyright.PENANA1sAKHPIj1i
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking377Please respect copyright.PENANAJISd9Zge04
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d377Please respect copyright.PENANAvOqf3X1TYm
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He377Please respect copyright.PENANAYCrb53hpSE
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while377Please respect copyright.PENANA5VoJc0tgX5
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he377Please respect copyright.PENANA1fDrORf6tJ
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it377Please respect copyright.PENANAkKjuIpIpjE
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 moved377Please respect copyright.PENANASm0J2SWR8t
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,377Please respect copyright.PENANAPXukrdXdaZ
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the377Please respect copyright.PENANAVkTzWgImcg
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster377Please respect copyright.PENANAbNYrZQDyvH
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up377Please respect copyright.PENANAMRQ63ZPe8F
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with377Please respect copyright.PENANA6wzwMYg4lD
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV377Please respect copyright.PENANAh89JjroFhf
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and377Please respect copyright.PENANAdNDHuduLpS
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that377Please respect copyright.PENANA4pTGocGLHO
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the377Please respect copyright.PENANANuEY9diMsf
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures377Please respect copyright.PENANAZsKVookvql
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and377Please respect copyright.PENANAWFVnee8WoW
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner377Please respect copyright.PENANAqRxhHtNslh
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And377Please respect copyright.PENANAT6RYGUVyJz
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have377Please respect copyright.PENANAtyK4pA09g0
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things377Please respect copyright.PENANA7pxQbQUGX5
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls377Please respect copyright.PENANAyo4xr6gHwS
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed377Please respect copyright.PENANATPGqCjo59i
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always377Please respect copyright.PENANAEvewqfsAxs
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear377Please respect copyright.PENANArN8eZ5qcZE
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything377Please respect copyright.PENANAKI1vpZ9FSF
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.377Please respect copyright.PENANAQxOpWVVpaX
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room377Please respect copyright.PENANA4WMo1oTzw1
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his377Please respect copyright.PENANAozuBsUpiL9
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that377Please respect copyright.PENANAn54TvGjZGI
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped377Please respect copyright.PENANAJ2tM134rmO
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t377Please respect copyright.PENANAbkoSbbAWXq
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall377Please respect copyright.PENANA1faDKGgiEw
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb377Please respect copyright.PENANA43u87nzMvK
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way377Please respect copyright.PENANAS1OgSh2njk
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from377Please respect copyright.PENANAMD7nZJ0IPj
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate377Please respect copyright.PENANAzazhlJripR
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued377Please respect copyright.PENANArIKqKY9151
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 and377Please respect copyright.PENANAXJxEEKVEzg
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and377Please respect copyright.PENANAPn6ze3WSjl
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old377Please respect copyright.PENANAzCzs2Z5DsZ
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the377Please respect copyright.PENANAB75Ay8ljfa
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside377Please respect copyright.PENANAJf4Mzi6KZn
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was377Please respect copyright.PENANAMVlOT6kKku
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s377Please respect copyright.PENANA6IpRqDBqbb
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 while377Please respect copyright.PENANAQBJWsnUWzT
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 the377Please respect copyright.PENANAuP0Eh04k6O
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,377Please respect copyright.PENANAVslAZPD5q7
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s377Please respect copyright.PENANApVI8qPq0Yd
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He377Please respect copyright.PENANAo9jxng3dBF
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our377Please respect copyright.PENANAj21GIa5fm3
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 continued377Please respect copyright.PENANA5mtOQm4HoJ
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 corner377Please respect copyright.PENANAA2z7mRGGTm
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.377Please respect copyright.PENANARDIAEQZ3Qe
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the377Please respect copyright.PENANA5Gkw7YLRGr
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a377Please respect copyright.PENANAkLu7DdBmkC
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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