“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly142Please respect copyright.PENANA5mDELjBLuq
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down142Please respect copyright.PENANALpEBX5ZZT2
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My142Please respect copyright.PENANA25gBbCdAiK
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by142Please respect copyright.PENANAZuihOWkyCt
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in142Please respect copyright.PENANAi9rmd5YUMh
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 he142Please respect copyright.PENANAvofzsaX9oK
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing142Please respect copyright.PENANAkvBc7QgGwt
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d142Please respect copyright.PENANAgpdaktvilG
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we142Please respect copyright.PENANAArwLf7xXpW
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,142Please respect copyright.PENANAuxbOSY41Yu
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains142Please respect copyright.PENANAZzbUK6zh3o
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence142Please respect copyright.PENANA0WiK94g1PQ
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically142Please respect copyright.PENANAtqr5z7MeDw
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and142Please respect copyright.PENANABOQiQcjGqX
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before142Please respect copyright.PENANA9WObdzpCfB
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only142Please respect copyright.PENANAUljafuw9nT
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign142Please respect copyright.PENANAqRt7k17o9W
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never142Please respect copyright.PENANAsmMTi5qMmR
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was142Please respect copyright.PENANAB8ABlUxlq5
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the142Please respect copyright.PENANAB2rGcaxNgm
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,142Please respect copyright.PENANA2LajKq6Lvr
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he142Please respect copyright.PENANAhpmUzQ77kF
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment142Please respect copyright.PENANALvacRwnAaa
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, Aaron142Please respect copyright.PENANA1Mygj8BAa9
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was142Please respect copyright.PENANAILzMQEoJ7Z
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the142Please respect copyright.PENANADVp5npX5ty
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If142Please respect copyright.PENANAG0Zk3O3KTP
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 understood142Please respect copyright.PENANABsjYkA6bIB
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he142Please respect copyright.PENANAiabrqhyNt7
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck142Please respect copyright.PENANAFchr3CbRWv
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell142Please respect copyright.PENANAYZdXpZD2rf
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into142Please respect copyright.PENANAoMzUha04nF
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,142Please respect copyright.PENANAndgaalPNgs
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know142Please respect copyright.PENANAqQVgYW9WY5
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At142Please respect copyright.PENANA8KlGa5ptaF
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was142Please respect copyright.PENANAMXubNaQ270
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had142Please respect copyright.PENANAM0HB8Z1TOH
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because142Please respect copyright.PENANAOtJuaNNy8j
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t142Please respect copyright.PENANAKIRopTgLjr
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,142Please respect copyright.PENANAfzs2zKLqqr
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t142Please respect copyright.PENANA0qqMA4xfnR
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the142Please respect copyright.PENANAFXMFzxFlZd
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the142Please respect copyright.PENANA9Xcmj7mUyb
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or142Please respect copyright.PENANACjhQdXWXpx
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to142Please respect copyright.PENANABCQPU3rVyW
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but142Please respect copyright.PENANA4w6y83hQKb
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of142Please respect copyright.PENANAB6h3sH5R0D
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,142Please respect copyright.PENANAQvHdF6cole
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying142Please respect copyright.PENANAcsHFFGrkUt
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was142Please respect copyright.PENANAxIdOziC8G3
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if142Please respect copyright.PENANAHltNZZwJLM
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the142Please respect copyright.PENANAW6RaYllcmK
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking142Please respect copyright.PENANAZwe0LHkZv4
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d142Please respect copyright.PENANA3BlMfgVYNx
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He142Please respect copyright.PENANAgBdgoTrdDQ
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while142Please respect copyright.PENANARzEz6x0dMQ
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he142Please respect copyright.PENANArR1dMkWZy4
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it142Please respect copyright.PENANAzbxkexk2uI
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 moved142Please respect copyright.PENANAbrIkMer4XG
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,142Please respect copyright.PENANA28hg0I9YPJ
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the142Please respect copyright.PENANAjDHboWkPZ8
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster142Please respect copyright.PENANAt9fvVZjHkt
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up142Please respect copyright.PENANAdzNdtE2naZ
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with142Please respect copyright.PENANAWmgllh6yDV
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV142Please respect copyright.PENANAY54JxfP9cr
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and142Please respect copyright.PENANAjaiMc2DPuo
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that142Please respect copyright.PENANAKh6ToeOgp9
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the142Please respect copyright.PENANAbLK2aDy0mk
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures142Please respect copyright.PENANAwPJN6P2kgs
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and142Please respect copyright.PENANAyDtOyfByRs
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner142Please respect copyright.PENANAfgxL9N1lCM
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And142Please respect copyright.PENANA6W44790wwr
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have142Please respect copyright.PENANAn3SCNVp60N
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things142Please respect copyright.PENANA8r3EklnQ2u
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls142Please respect copyright.PENANAQwKXmDuPdL
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed142Please respect copyright.PENANA94xHw3n1d1
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always142Please respect copyright.PENANAdOJcFNCjrZ
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear142Please respect copyright.PENANAFvBuqBxL1E
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything142Please respect copyright.PENANA3SXHkVHkzB
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.142Please respect copyright.PENANAOOLtAfTMMl
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room142Please respect copyright.PENANAgLRsvlhGzH
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his142Please respect copyright.PENANAoq1pdMqwlW
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that142Please respect copyright.PENANAWHNOE9KzLs
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped142Please respect copyright.PENANAGnAwCBzbO6
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t142Please respect copyright.PENANAJV46Dp8MZS
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall142Please respect copyright.PENANAa68XPGcD2q
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb142Please respect copyright.PENANAigt3hXUipP
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way142Please respect copyright.PENANAtze3jwCGbs
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from142Please respect copyright.PENANAEOwmxqQcBl
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate142Please respect copyright.PENANA4nNveZnM4P
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued142Please respect copyright.PENANAaRjJHu2HXu
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 and142Please respect copyright.PENANAODDvdXLaM3
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and142Please respect copyright.PENANAqBIhzqxMBP
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old142Please respect copyright.PENANAze1JIFb0Oa
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the142Please respect copyright.PENANAf6gcCmXGmE
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside142Please respect copyright.PENANAw4U90EJzvT
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was142Please respect copyright.PENANATpSe138a0I
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s142Please respect copyright.PENANA7P9jCO6kAG
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 while142Please respect copyright.PENANArKOVXCblbl
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 the142Please respect copyright.PENANAxjExifqFb0
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,142Please respect copyright.PENANA6NM4J9tbOn
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s142Please respect copyright.PENANAQZDqs1Tvs0
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He142Please respect copyright.PENANA0kX4O4Ajju
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our142Please respect copyright.PENANA9sSEfRfb0B
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 continued142Please respect copyright.PENANA3KBCC3TfBm
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 corner142Please respect copyright.PENANAkSuHb93cKP
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.142Please respect copyright.PENANAqroRDa04oh
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the142Please respect copyright.PENANAgMys7TigJF
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a142Please respect copyright.PENANA4HbVg9Qp8r
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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