“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly280Please respect copyright.PENANAkt7iv6TF8i
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down280Please respect copyright.PENANAyN5HuzRPaa
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My280Please respect copyright.PENANAvedYaEFUl1
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by280Please respect copyright.PENANAFJBli6095w
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in280Please respect copyright.PENANAG4coWPOwsR
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 he280Please respect copyright.PENANAAiLVMV13g4
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing280Please respect copyright.PENANA2JUtb91skl
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d280Please respect copyright.PENANAK4anFM39eP
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we280Please respect copyright.PENANAbr6QIBXyUT
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,280Please respect copyright.PENANAUn8FbMpefb
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains280Please respect copyright.PENANAsjVsLw3H5k
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence280Please respect copyright.PENANAM0q4GKwERx
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically280Please respect copyright.PENANAnrQqBmY4PW
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and280Please respect copyright.PENANA3Q3nN4qSWT
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before280Please respect copyright.PENANAhwSTPYudg6
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only280Please respect copyright.PENANArci0zW9cHn
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign280Please respect copyright.PENANAWlfdJyOgFI
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never280Please respect copyright.PENANAzmRhCI0BGb
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was280Please respect copyright.PENANAUVU5pHhSGn
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the280Please respect copyright.PENANANIbe24IANl
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,280Please respect copyright.PENANAlClEr8cORD
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he280Please respect copyright.PENANAGRZ8FmKLeW
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment280Please respect copyright.PENANAYglWXliU9o
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, Aaron280Please respect copyright.PENANAkWuuSkBeIx
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was280Please respect copyright.PENANA8x6KnzKqAZ
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the280Please respect copyright.PENANAj3b0w9te6D
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If280Please respect copyright.PENANA0X9VtLoJSl
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 understood280Please respect copyright.PENANAfiiTBgnf90
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he280Please respect copyright.PENANAyzAddc1dl1
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck280Please respect copyright.PENANAJPPRfXf2Y6
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell280Please respect copyright.PENANAfAzvWk8ztS
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into280Please respect copyright.PENANAqamDF8RuEj
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,280Please respect copyright.PENANAZMOnSWTorG
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know280Please respect copyright.PENANAKNAVo5OHRb
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At280Please respect copyright.PENANARPmtELXmfR
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was280Please respect copyright.PENANACjWSm1h6IL
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had280Please respect copyright.PENANAa8k72eBoed
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because280Please respect copyright.PENANAOQbSKuqhI0
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t280Please respect copyright.PENANAfsSZNQkkin
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,280Please respect copyright.PENANAuaMsBNbePm
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t280Please respect copyright.PENANAoStU2QhUg9
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the280Please respect copyright.PENANAR06xghgxIT
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the280Please respect copyright.PENANAvLFqVxGlHD
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or280Please respect copyright.PENANAsRPF3GDcep
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to280Please respect copyright.PENANAnmk04pXVpG
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but280Please respect copyright.PENANAI2XXFusDB9
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of280Please respect copyright.PENANA9xuDW80WEg
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,280Please respect copyright.PENANAoLJbs2mUwL
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying280Please respect copyright.PENANA4wLemdf1e0
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was280Please respect copyright.PENANA2vHqAGMS9i
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if280Please respect copyright.PENANAH9depNuIZm
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the280Please respect copyright.PENANAXNYnWKbfgU
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking280Please respect copyright.PENANAQFuKO2AlPJ
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d280Please respect copyright.PENANAN109Choc5f
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He280Please respect copyright.PENANA5kPEuTIwEa
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while280Please respect copyright.PENANA60cZe4I1mV
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he280Please respect copyright.PENANAhkhlol46tY
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it280Please respect copyright.PENANAPRfq6hN1Em
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 moved280Please respect copyright.PENANAhOoz9LDzUx
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,280Please respect copyright.PENANAM9rQNQUfky
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the280Please respect copyright.PENANAnQEaMEVXOY
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster280Please respect copyright.PENANAdJpDvG17e7
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up280Please respect copyright.PENANAFRykG9Flpw
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with280Please respect copyright.PENANAyNrykP95Wq
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV280Please respect copyright.PENANACtVFtWvWrx
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and280Please respect copyright.PENANAxlbjJy9GiT
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that280Please respect copyright.PENANA0MBeSgeIil
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the280Please respect copyright.PENANAeQQElYydP9
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures280Please respect copyright.PENANApKpBt3Zlyt
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and280Please respect copyright.PENANADy0vfoeXri
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner280Please respect copyright.PENANA2yYOlY93h4
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And280Please respect copyright.PENANApK3T1uItYy
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have280Please respect copyright.PENANAdoI5MJ50mu
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things280Please respect copyright.PENANAYVwy6voUG6
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls280Please respect copyright.PENANAtn7p5r7WR9
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed280Please respect copyright.PENANAK6RXx0XhLw
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always280Please respect copyright.PENANAD3eIPF4Ys7
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear280Please respect copyright.PENANA44NnN0tmGW
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything280Please respect copyright.PENANA30SCwHyAjB
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.280Please respect copyright.PENANATSk5VOlmSM
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room280Please respect copyright.PENANAN2SVsdKTSm
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his280Please respect copyright.PENANA5LBjSXIMwZ
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that280Please respect copyright.PENANA8TbhUYbaJ9
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped280Please respect copyright.PENANAPc5O5m1Mct
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t280Please respect copyright.PENANAyWfB2SBo91
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall280Please respect copyright.PENANAR0rIMaUFNa
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb280Please respect copyright.PENANAgKQW829jRM
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way280Please respect copyright.PENANANpGw19kNlh
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from280Please respect copyright.PENANAw0AB7TBrp6
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate280Please respect copyright.PENANA36B544MpOX
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued280Please respect copyright.PENANA7Qs9t2CvP9
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 and280Please respect copyright.PENANApK7qtELqj5
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and280Please respect copyright.PENANA6iaaKpNAZf
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old280Please respect copyright.PENANAF3DDwbkIca
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the280Please respect copyright.PENANA0zGySGJ72D
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside280Please respect copyright.PENANADhzfn0Hoos
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was280Please respect copyright.PENANAjG6PdUxYJt
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s280Please respect copyright.PENANALdu5Lrvp0L
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 while280Please respect copyright.PENANA5Y0tiqJiP5
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 the280Please respect copyright.PENANAIZ4l98tggE
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,280Please respect copyright.PENANAvsX0fr29Zi
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s280Please respect copyright.PENANAOCwLHDkioH
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He280Please respect copyright.PENANAqauVqNj2rZ
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our280Please respect copyright.PENANA4bz9NnoY0k
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 continued280Please respect copyright.PENANAymSoFoKX2R
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 corner280Please respect copyright.PENANAaFUeK8BTtQ
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.280Please respect copyright.PENANAiKh09615oa
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the280Please respect copyright.PENANApL0F2WY88F
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a280Please respect copyright.PENANAJavd7yTkFN
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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