“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly733Please respect copyright.PENANAFP5KsXU7tc
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down733Please respect copyright.PENANAPxkDgLxCht
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My733Please respect copyright.PENANArEtck9aPuJ
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by733Please respect copyright.PENANAnf3E03scDw
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in733Please respect copyright.PENANAxN5EUPEw6z
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 he733Please respect copyright.PENANAJdFrdroj2r
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing733Please respect copyright.PENANAenXf30BA7W
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d733Please respect copyright.PENANAwVuiYkENbN
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we733Please respect copyright.PENANAQLNbZB4Tzl
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,733Please respect copyright.PENANADr8T5GDNDh
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains733Please respect copyright.PENANAY3SZhIl5QU
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence733Please respect copyright.PENANAUcbLmNXgKI
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically733Please respect copyright.PENANAyKZ1yHmflF
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and733Please respect copyright.PENANAf6rEqBCsqn
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before733Please respect copyright.PENANAinH0mV9woD
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only733Please respect copyright.PENANABO0Uylub64
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign733Please respect copyright.PENANA9wf7MvoVC9
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never733Please respect copyright.PENANAcmABS5UbqF
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was733Please respect copyright.PENANA6Howe2TZSt
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the733Please respect copyright.PENANADMdTzy5L7w
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,733Please respect copyright.PENANA8ZtykAX8d2
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he733Please respect copyright.PENANAGINTf891eS
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment733Please respect copyright.PENANAavQHEYwhj9
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, Aaron733Please respect copyright.PENANACqzCVczD7Z
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was733Please respect copyright.PENANAdwDs5ZGuoO
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the733Please respect copyright.PENANAsi0EEEs2Ff
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If733Please respect copyright.PENANAHvTHyehs4o
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 understood733Please respect copyright.PENANA8M7GuuA5Xr
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he733Please respect copyright.PENANAdBYLdkPphT
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck733Please respect copyright.PENANA01Mk4Fw7bK
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell733Please respect copyright.PENANAVHF39XWsnk
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into733Please respect copyright.PENANAvBSv4BfR1j
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,733Please respect copyright.PENANA3cjPBmvd4r
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know733Please respect copyright.PENANAtkOMuhCJgE
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At733Please respect copyright.PENANAfJrlaPW4Yt
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was733Please respect copyright.PENANA4HQENbdVBY
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had733Please respect copyright.PENANANCMlkIAkdT
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because733Please respect copyright.PENANA7nvXPmEVdq
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t733Please respect copyright.PENANAwvT1AJX7PY
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,733Please respect copyright.PENANArb8z72wUts
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t733Please respect copyright.PENANASSqWsTVoxi
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the733Please respect copyright.PENANAdTk8K2a9Ld
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the733Please respect copyright.PENANAck9Cw0xriC
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or733Please respect copyright.PENANAvAarJaJ8YE
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to733Please respect copyright.PENANA7r0tE2LdMF
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but733Please respect copyright.PENANAjgCx63eXWl
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of733Please respect copyright.PENANAsJ8Nb1NH3s
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,733Please respect copyright.PENANAcnmThx3AsW
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying733Please respect copyright.PENANApPNTvzvd0l
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was733Please respect copyright.PENANAPawNAX2Cvl
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if733Please respect copyright.PENANAzE7o0bpw8i
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the733Please respect copyright.PENANA6Xx0ikfiSL
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking733Please respect copyright.PENANADTF6TzLuPd
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d733Please respect copyright.PENANA9kyNb1c6y1
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He733Please respect copyright.PENANAm0jlAuCEZh
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while733Please respect copyright.PENANA0clUeZrYNV
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he733Please respect copyright.PENANAgJ1CtLZQpM
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it733Please respect copyright.PENANAt9JijjQopM
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 moved733Please respect copyright.PENANAkl8doOE3Rc
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,733Please respect copyright.PENANAImB1cn5eke
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the733Please respect copyright.PENANAqRoYVFbUAW
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster733Please respect copyright.PENANAjsQNNKv2QL
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up733Please respect copyright.PENANAbITMknuza7
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with733Please respect copyright.PENANA6uXvsyvuaV
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV733Please respect copyright.PENANA8R7xJcyfHM
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and733Please respect copyright.PENANAWChY2t6w8M
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that733Please respect copyright.PENANAQp28yw48EE
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the733Please respect copyright.PENANAEMyP6bHcQx
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures733Please respect copyright.PENANAe3lTZoV8v7
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and733Please respect copyright.PENANAVd3Zh0Oy7J
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner733Please respect copyright.PENANAlbiWjePrX6
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And733Please respect copyright.PENANAtNeI6kQ8va
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have733Please respect copyright.PENANAsmsBAfsYs4
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things733Please respect copyright.PENANAoSHXMe6T63
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls733Please respect copyright.PENANAjn6thc6cpx
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed733Please respect copyright.PENANAFMXyiRBA3T
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always733Please respect copyright.PENANAE1OBfAfxiy
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear733Please respect copyright.PENANAIOJRtF6fiW
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything733Please respect copyright.PENANAhCrWU8OHPP
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.733Please respect copyright.PENANAawxijOhMjF
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room733Please respect copyright.PENANA3qNOlBnEJV
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his733Please respect copyright.PENANAvm5WAz3l3w
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that733Please respect copyright.PENANAFD8EQZX8XG
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped733Please respect copyright.PENANAhPYVU1aMO9
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t733Please respect copyright.PENANAAWeKvn6Tmz
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall733Please respect copyright.PENANAsNgWl414Ia
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb733Please respect copyright.PENANAXLCGyGuo8C
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way733Please respect copyright.PENANA0UcZAShKPI
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from733Please respect copyright.PENANA0PVAgZxSnj
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate733Please respect copyright.PENANAJxZCmxQmpE
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued733Please respect copyright.PENANAg67VC3secu
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 and733Please respect copyright.PENANAa6cTy8gepB
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and733Please respect copyright.PENANAwMfxAD3UqB
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old733Please respect copyright.PENANApz7DOHuG52
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the733Please respect copyright.PENANAybI4wOeMl6
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside733Please respect copyright.PENANAAAxhPdZJZ5
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was733Please respect copyright.PENANAZksXJo7OjO
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s733Please respect copyright.PENANAjgDwVZucIm
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 while733Please respect copyright.PENANAJhCcy9uihf
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 the733Please respect copyright.PENANATaab4Bh1jh
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,733Please respect copyright.PENANALL60N4Bsym
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s733Please respect copyright.PENANAs8Zd9LDaU0
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He733Please respect copyright.PENANAmNa5Gq3q4R
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our733Please respect copyright.PENANAS8sGxPVS8A
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 continued733Please respect copyright.PENANA5nTVGN0jmY
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 corner733Please respect copyright.PENANAFtxRCqkKhe
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.733Please respect copyright.PENANAAIedFeaneV
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the733Please respect copyright.PENANAbNciXRqnKc
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a733Please respect copyright.PENANAyqVZiNriAO
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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