“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly103Please respect copyright.PENANA3Zh2ZhkoFr
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down103Please respect copyright.PENANAL9RmMqHrrY
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My103Please respect copyright.PENANA3hgyEPEyze
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by103Please respect copyright.PENANAxy2SncIULr
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in103Please respect copyright.PENANACnU9blBcMq
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 he103Please respect copyright.PENANAdQvEtETGhE
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing103Please respect copyright.PENANAn6NpO7KiTG
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d103Please respect copyright.PENANAqtrlnmjoOy
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we103Please respect copyright.PENANA3YwiaQxacu
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,103Please respect copyright.PENANAJK4xtwzQU9
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains103Please respect copyright.PENANAVmgtBBvcTf
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence103Please respect copyright.PENANAAxaGkMdZ2B
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically103Please respect copyright.PENANAAXCtyOtATd
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and103Please respect copyright.PENANAOwO5XULfIb
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before103Please respect copyright.PENANATVrVgDJokd
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only103Please respect copyright.PENANADGr6rCErkz
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign103Please respect copyright.PENANAmJUrIOl7u1
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never103Please respect copyright.PENANAxUkXxLwGzA
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was103Please respect copyright.PENANAmou9NTw3fo
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the103Please respect copyright.PENANAK2fi7JJiJm
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,103Please respect copyright.PENANAIFjIQan3W5
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he103Please respect copyright.PENANABk9wTzVIn0
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment103Please respect copyright.PENANAxSEtNzgqSp
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, Aaron103Please respect copyright.PENANAbNsEhspZ5S
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was103Please respect copyright.PENANAD1t89a0TYF
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the103Please respect copyright.PENANA8VRFhyEBWY
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If103Please respect copyright.PENANAbnV9OjvKEz
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 understood103Please respect copyright.PENANAYolXBGVyWE
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he103Please respect copyright.PENANAIlxzXomNnS
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck103Please respect copyright.PENANAG7cmrtjqrI
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell103Please respect copyright.PENANAmrrapYN8Ov
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into103Please respect copyright.PENANA1K5hkOtaOD
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,103Please respect copyright.PENANAXBXyvhRhBE
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know103Please respect copyright.PENANAwwSQoT9agY
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At103Please respect copyright.PENANArxpRGtWdH7
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was103Please respect copyright.PENANA8YRKcoiSAQ
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had103Please respect copyright.PENANAZtb0rjYD5D
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because103Please respect copyright.PENANAdZluYvdcWW
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t103Please respect copyright.PENANA60mzdMPaLY
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,103Please respect copyright.PENANAonDvRRmNWs
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t103Please respect copyright.PENANAK1Dm5Yf7wp
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the103Please respect copyright.PENANACLpbxcWbj5
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the103Please respect copyright.PENANAzzAMuebSky
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or103Please respect copyright.PENANALz8ILH9jsh
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to103Please respect copyright.PENANAxy5nBIuNzU
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but103Please respect copyright.PENANAS3zHUFrmlu
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of103Please respect copyright.PENANAKGDcMll9YP
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,103Please respect copyright.PENANAB9zXgos6tN
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying103Please respect copyright.PENANAKYVCn3m2l0
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was103Please respect copyright.PENANAF4a1ADZhKA
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if103Please respect copyright.PENANA71qflceELj
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the103Please respect copyright.PENANAzYCKv6mCo2
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking103Please respect copyright.PENANA643uq3wvei
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d103Please respect copyright.PENANAz1Q52LaHGO
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He103Please respect copyright.PENANAVy02HGMoOe
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while103Please respect copyright.PENANAtd8wJ6knrP
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he103Please respect copyright.PENANAz88P5hwUxu
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it103Please respect copyright.PENANA0b4bEejZ9l
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 moved103Please respect copyright.PENANAVuuU48Uhrd
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,103Please respect copyright.PENANAMhqyzSnVM2
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the103Please respect copyright.PENANA4jB8lMQDmc
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster103Please respect copyright.PENANAtdboWnYj62
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up103Please respect copyright.PENANAYcCtQ8jgkR
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with103Please respect copyright.PENANAnlweE48yiW
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV103Please respect copyright.PENANAvtbg26ED0Q
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and103Please respect copyright.PENANAAdjlXgQ6Kf
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that103Please respect copyright.PENANAR4EwaK2omv
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the103Please respect copyright.PENANAmmOAfQxNnE
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures103Please respect copyright.PENANA5EWgNh9baz
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and103Please respect copyright.PENANABqQoCnnapm
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner103Please respect copyright.PENANALZtFPPE3VL
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And103Please respect copyright.PENANASGv0zSmu85
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have103Please respect copyright.PENANAZf3zvjTubk
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things103Please respect copyright.PENANA3snV5jDc8C
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls103Please respect copyright.PENANAI1aMj27rH0
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed103Please respect copyright.PENANAyqUTxSsAnq
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always103Please respect copyright.PENANA9IwCwP5yHf
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear103Please respect copyright.PENANAULgJDBUybb
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything103Please respect copyright.PENANAveUJwt5Q2J
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.103Please respect copyright.PENANAawTPXhhxNI
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room103Please respect copyright.PENANAzQ4NXsFnBA
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his103Please respect copyright.PENANAG1kwtZIPzR
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that103Please respect copyright.PENANAjkz81B0yA5
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped103Please respect copyright.PENANANV0b1Z0Jgf
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t103Please respect copyright.PENANAiz3bKbUBCc
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall103Please respect copyright.PENANAaJfhuLthFO
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb103Please respect copyright.PENANAsOTh8PdYaj
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way103Please respect copyright.PENANAIji99ZaF5t
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from103Please respect copyright.PENANAfWO5oVLNE4
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate103Please respect copyright.PENANAO2APqSIgvD
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued103Please respect copyright.PENANAswIjOMbu16
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 and103Please respect copyright.PENANALyqRhBnyHa
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and103Please respect copyright.PENANA6yPWN2AAkU
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old103Please respect copyright.PENANAKDfTb4b125
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the103Please respect copyright.PENANAT1JjMOy4VH
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside103Please respect copyright.PENANAK1wLpTVwCc
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was103Please respect copyright.PENANAju3PSo20iF
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s103Please respect copyright.PENANAxmsYqpNUyZ
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 while103Please respect copyright.PENANA2yJCpKCN7b
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 the103Please respect copyright.PENANAdMW9Y6LK1O
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,103Please respect copyright.PENANA5thAavynlB
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s103Please respect copyright.PENANAHmM2FK8BkK
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He103Please respect copyright.PENANAur0rrkelp8
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our103Please respect copyright.PENANAXMRs7v8atm
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 continued103Please respect copyright.PENANAPzKTpQMUdz
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 corner103Please respect copyright.PENANAZWZA9Ft0kC
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.103Please respect copyright.PENANAPMZyD197jH
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the103Please respect copyright.PENANAnkSHt6MMYv
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a103Please respect copyright.PENANAOU5IEpZots
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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