“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly116Please respect copyright.PENANA56ZY1a2aFL
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down116Please respect copyright.PENANAkLyvyAqqZQ
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My116Please respect copyright.PENANAVr4aTdm34c
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by116Please respect copyright.PENANA04F1ILY26c
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in116Please respect copyright.PENANAlV1bDf37fm
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 he116Please respect copyright.PENANAWPi4F9PCHk
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing116Please respect copyright.PENANAXzWxsAwgsi
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d116Please respect copyright.PENANA4l34nmRnqR
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we116Please respect copyright.PENANAW2Uh9Fdu1T
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,116Please respect copyright.PENANAiHdsZwY4Hn
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains116Please respect copyright.PENANAcgoSHvSGVB
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence116Please respect copyright.PENANA9WKgHuD2bF
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically116Please respect copyright.PENANAzPqhIJ0I0Q
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and116Please respect copyright.PENANAHxyUbjkZoy
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before116Please respect copyright.PENANAJgadbveVQ3
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only116Please respect copyright.PENANAj09qJkI2rE
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign116Please respect copyright.PENANA4wUfn9FDeU
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never116Please respect copyright.PENANAvwWzrzuJmJ
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was116Please respect copyright.PENANAIcNPlcbsaE
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the116Please respect copyright.PENANAyOpfuV4CZP
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,116Please respect copyright.PENANAsLe7JynGYX
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he116Please respect copyright.PENANAeJhMhPa1EO
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment116Please respect copyright.PENANAaCCvW18LYE
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, Aaron116Please respect copyright.PENANAfjxHakogu7
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was116Please respect copyright.PENANA1QsnG2DogB
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the116Please respect copyright.PENANAptpwHmBOjT
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If116Please respect copyright.PENANA6ORbaGhfBr
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 understood116Please respect copyright.PENANAUCxEMaDb00
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he116Please respect copyright.PENANASxfzQeVjaK
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck116Please respect copyright.PENANAvSd6xZDgt3
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell116Please respect copyright.PENANA6bcfNcJDiK
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into116Please respect copyright.PENANATTvmdpIP38
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,116Please respect copyright.PENANA0snwbGtNeJ
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know116Please respect copyright.PENANAHXyYSqSJi1
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At116Please respect copyright.PENANAGATrWRmaEs
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was116Please respect copyright.PENANAFoRbpBhD63
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had116Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7eJEKcgtv
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because116Please respect copyright.PENANArp0B6OIwXy
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t116Please respect copyright.PENANA9tRrh5zz8s
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,116Please respect copyright.PENANAoRoxu9kzja
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t116Please respect copyright.PENANAzioU13vjCI
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the116Please respect copyright.PENANAyUTVNpVOLX
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the116Please respect copyright.PENANAzhglboH1OF
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or116Please respect copyright.PENANAatIWzwWrsD
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to116Please respect copyright.PENANALzOzWsJ3nO
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but116Please respect copyright.PENANAOmBQmPzy3e
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of116Please respect copyright.PENANAa1ouhtjG2l
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,116Please respect copyright.PENANAcgFQcSG2V0
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying116Please respect copyright.PENANABdjedwMno9
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was116Please respect copyright.PENANAkNR3xaJkYr
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if116Please respect copyright.PENANASPrwLAo4Oo
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the116Please respect copyright.PENANAzwGOykoNNa
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking116Please respect copyright.PENANAtmJ8glMji3
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d116Please respect copyright.PENANAeqYKiZaY10
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He116Please respect copyright.PENANANElB2GR4Af
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while116Please respect copyright.PENANAWPtz6xQbyF
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he116Please respect copyright.PENANAHX3ZUzW9GY
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it116Please respect copyright.PENANAXhtvsdoplO
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 moved116Please respect copyright.PENANAsh873Oh4qZ
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,116Please respect copyright.PENANAY0KwPHJJgI
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the116Please respect copyright.PENANAGKtAT7GVk7
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster116Please respect copyright.PENANAy7N0IKt3tB
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up116Please respect copyright.PENANAtw3MpmfRvU
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with116Please respect copyright.PENANAtsDRfFxIRb
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV116Please respect copyright.PENANAwyVIaPDadL
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and116Please respect copyright.PENANACxgczgSaIX
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that116Please respect copyright.PENANA3xh2BxX5wn
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the116Please respect copyright.PENANAsSFDRTAEtY
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures116Please respect copyright.PENANAllz2XtUGuo
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and116Please respect copyright.PENANAu5hEsOo9fk
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner116Please respect copyright.PENANAHX1eQmk6Lq
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And116Please respect copyright.PENANAda6YWIDlzg
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have116Please respect copyright.PENANAHBFLsNwoOY
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things116Please respect copyright.PENANA5dbcUmXCiv
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls116Please respect copyright.PENANABcMHSrvwPe
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed116Please respect copyright.PENANAc6SGKARmVK
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always116Please respect copyright.PENANAEJqqWFSCye
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear116Please respect copyright.PENANAfiJITE0JrU
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything116Please respect copyright.PENANAOwu0wybvyH
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.116Please respect copyright.PENANAvz5OjOCiIl
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room116Please respect copyright.PENANASjamqyI5BS
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his116Please respect copyright.PENANAwJ93ozYMwA
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that116Please respect copyright.PENANAuvWFIBGMQV
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped116Please respect copyright.PENANAgoRTTZXTC0
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t116Please respect copyright.PENANA6z9p7bk1ca
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall116Please respect copyright.PENANAc0xy3Pv7T9
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb116Please respect copyright.PENANACRap7aZrbT
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way116Please respect copyright.PENANAddcIkgQ0lZ
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from116Please respect copyright.PENANA8fk6pHPgbK
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate116Please respect copyright.PENANA9lF9EGPMrn
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued116Please respect copyright.PENANA73g35QBK9r
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 and116Please respect copyright.PENANA6JJscsGM4J
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and116Please respect copyright.PENANA1hmIGDrVnn
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old116Please respect copyright.PENANAIyP0VSDi7G
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the116Please respect copyright.PENANASHtKG0k88k
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside116Please respect copyright.PENANAzrZ4yOgVGt
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was116Please respect copyright.PENANAUC0ncSDPlm
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s116Please respect copyright.PENANAnbQMgm8E5j
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 while116Please respect copyright.PENANA3qMlFgH6M5
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 the116Please respect copyright.PENANA1JnCRBU8Pi
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,116Please respect copyright.PENANA1RKSqKxGMO
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s116Please respect copyright.PENANAPGVbYgO0nX
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He116Please respect copyright.PENANAbT1ovCKrTC
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our116Please respect copyright.PENANANrCUMRmmUi
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 continued116Please respect copyright.PENANAF7uZGt3DTV
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 corner116Please respect copyright.PENANA0LRV25l5NC
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.116Please respect copyright.PENANAHlFcI3uh1g
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the116Please respect copyright.PENANAWQTHcAD2o2
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a116Please respect copyright.PENANA3JZ4f8P8SI
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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