“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly347Please respect copyright.PENANAPjRou2NvEx
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down347Please respect copyright.PENANAsnWuSRzjgh
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My347Please respect copyright.PENANAfwHgcvtU9J
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by347Please respect copyright.PENANA3tK1eo9BZ7
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in347Please respect copyright.PENANAuRbexDNRsS
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 he347Please respect copyright.PENANAVa9qCIiHhS
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing347Please respect copyright.PENANAgyyZkdW4xM
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d347Please respect copyright.PENANA1glx6UHLuh
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we347Please respect copyright.PENANAykyFsS6UE5
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,347Please respect copyright.PENANAAyg2PbKYyY
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains347Please respect copyright.PENANAl6QSNPEM5y
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence347Please respect copyright.PENANAsermsnYwMK
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically347Please respect copyright.PENANAbeASZkSg7b
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and347Please respect copyright.PENANAqb2HKkReU6
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before347Please respect copyright.PENANAQS4kKd8VOd
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only347Please respect copyright.PENANADsLqvn8IN7
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign347Please respect copyright.PENANA714A3oNzL0
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never347Please respect copyright.PENANACYsscqeXN6
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was347Please respect copyright.PENANAgnJac6i7BM
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the347Please respect copyright.PENANA8ch2IzeEiI
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,347Please respect copyright.PENANA8LKvGmwmvk
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he347Please respect copyright.PENANAcCTIQu6niI
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment347Please respect copyright.PENANAWTnrJNkK1n
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, Aaron347Please respect copyright.PENANAo90vwhxmF0
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was347Please respect copyright.PENANAtn0Wqu3Igw
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the347Please respect copyright.PENANAYIE9hTwg4h
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If347Please respect copyright.PENANARuW5TAzmR6
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 understood347Please respect copyright.PENANAs1GjYNyAWG
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he347Please respect copyright.PENANA6mU0L7nRRP
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck347Please respect copyright.PENANAa4tlQrrxD3
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell347Please respect copyright.PENANAPvTx9Suv5p
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into347Please respect copyright.PENANAsiKZY4vGdH
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,347Please respect copyright.PENANAeV3YdIFbhG
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know347Please respect copyright.PENANAS4i9UDjnl8
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At347Please respect copyright.PENANA21Nr0xNE0X
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was347Please respect copyright.PENANAaC3LNfgiiT
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had347Please respect copyright.PENANAXq0mralLAd
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because347Please respect copyright.PENANABqpc5YScbi
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t347Please respect copyright.PENANAIpVzSxcEuI
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,347Please respect copyright.PENANAtjmJaN2ckC
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t347Please respect copyright.PENANA326y5PEzSB
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the347Please respect copyright.PENANAGCDSgeSNoF
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the347Please respect copyright.PENANAV9F5tLQEoV
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or347Please respect copyright.PENANA6dUC25Eaev
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to347Please respect copyright.PENANASMhz7OFfXD
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but347Please respect copyright.PENANAl7uEzYML3f
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of347Please respect copyright.PENANAAkH4XIKoE7
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,347Please respect copyright.PENANALJ94YD5cAr
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying347Please respect copyright.PENANAGHoOAVyFWQ
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was347Please respect copyright.PENANAj2Z179NBMW
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if347Please respect copyright.PENANAd9gRDynSVe
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the347Please respect copyright.PENANAKfpezQDucA
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking347Please respect copyright.PENANAbth6TdpXHN
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d347Please respect copyright.PENANA0WLS1T1gA6
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He347Please respect copyright.PENANAD4t0d6MTYB
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while347Please respect copyright.PENANApfQFJaRMlV
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he347Please respect copyright.PENANArHcJkhusAI
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it347Please respect copyright.PENANAj9PibIT9ap
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 moved347Please respect copyright.PENANAVxhRMxqMuO
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,347Please respect copyright.PENANAaNExNE30Dy
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the347Please respect copyright.PENANAgYTWTw384n
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster347Please respect copyright.PENANAYMDi8gyhLR
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up347Please respect copyright.PENANAMLA2YD4B1r
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with347Please respect copyright.PENANAYQ72rgH85b
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV347Please respect copyright.PENANA5bCAhphUpB
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and347Please respect copyright.PENANA27sEjQVEPS
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that347Please respect copyright.PENANA9Cvcpi8mlM
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the347Please respect copyright.PENANA9HuFhRGgl2
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures347Please respect copyright.PENANAPG9lwmoPPN
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and347Please respect copyright.PENANAunQhsEuRzZ
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner347Please respect copyright.PENANASbk5kHQedH
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And347Please respect copyright.PENANAKq79AXwXnk
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have347Please respect copyright.PENANALOxz4RT8DE
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things347Please respect copyright.PENANAqpAwN1vx6i
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls347Please respect copyright.PENANAsgUo6NVnfr
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed347Please respect copyright.PENANATpN0BDc40l
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always347Please respect copyright.PENANACAYyJPGOTP
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear347Please respect copyright.PENANAxcNFiPaXzj
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything347Please respect copyright.PENANABzHzAVfxsD
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.347Please respect copyright.PENANAuQkiQWjYi1
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room347Please respect copyright.PENANAwGT529PCK4
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his347Please respect copyright.PENANAg4iDutiJqK
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that347Please respect copyright.PENANAia4cNv3WE1
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped347Please respect copyright.PENANAA0GKbzlnbn
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t347Please respect copyright.PENANAdX868486H9
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall347Please respect copyright.PENANABBuWkKU99W
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb347Please respect copyright.PENANAtRyUbkJU8u
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way347Please respect copyright.PENANAI8UO6XfKct
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from347Please respect copyright.PENANA9D4ylz8NNS
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate347Please respect copyright.PENANAp6WcLcGzQV
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued347Please respect copyright.PENANAtUWAoQu9iw
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 and347Please respect copyright.PENANAs6GvuUtEAV
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and347Please respect copyright.PENANAq7qvipZ6aB
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old347Please respect copyright.PENANA7bvsAnkGxy
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the347Please respect copyright.PENANARGEr8g6dQM
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside347Please respect copyright.PENANAwomYyCN9yK
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was347Please respect copyright.PENANAkg3eN8Rb4z
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s347Please respect copyright.PENANASNpNAyvkXF
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 while347Please respect copyright.PENANAhTVwz831pk
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 the347Please respect copyright.PENANAIjfMuPpQdq
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,347Please respect copyright.PENANAfPjju5speM
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s347Please respect copyright.PENANAwX29g5bVYa
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He347Please respect copyright.PENANAoYf8Nz4Z3W
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our347Please respect copyright.PENANA7swRdUcpBu
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 continued347Please respect copyright.PENANAE8PnSuwy7t
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 corner347Please respect copyright.PENANAesKUAPgyg9
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.347Please respect copyright.PENANAdVZkJKkMDT
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the347Please respect copyright.PENANABekeF8t3DX
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a347Please respect copyright.PENANAE0bbIJD4HY
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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