“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly430Please respect copyright.PENANANIWTfUgu3t
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down430Please respect copyright.PENANAkXqByJmxoK
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My430Please respect copyright.PENANAnII0XoF5G8
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by430Please respect copyright.PENANA3B6o4phxw4
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in430Please respect copyright.PENANAEjYdjJ8BWx
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 he430Please respect copyright.PENANAykCNPRP4TI
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing430Please respect copyright.PENANATXd7lFrqNd
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d430Please respect copyright.PENANAIi52BvmK9E
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we430Please respect copyright.PENANAMLNfdJkOWa
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,430Please respect copyright.PENANAXO9p6iIzc8
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains430Please respect copyright.PENANAuLortZHEYa
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence430Please respect copyright.PENANApjKQTzrNOG
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically430Please respect copyright.PENANArLUXCuOcoo
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and430Please respect copyright.PENANAnIPHGfhR1s
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before430Please respect copyright.PENANAkHrmx9s78X
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only430Please respect copyright.PENANAvHDZynVxnT
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign430Please respect copyright.PENANAGXy0SoVTpI
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never430Please respect copyright.PENANAy168haQMf4
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was430Please respect copyright.PENANAC9sNhm1fEp
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the430Please respect copyright.PENANAu7DN0JMDqL
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,430Please respect copyright.PENANAdqvUwT3pRH
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he430Please respect copyright.PENANApEOR5AoL2K
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment430Please respect copyright.PENANAaEtqw1yQkV
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, Aaron430Please respect copyright.PENANAJtU3UXvBdI
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was430Please respect copyright.PENANAH28JrHMN61
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the430Please respect copyright.PENANAmLeGXM1VrH
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If430Please respect copyright.PENANA6P73VWiKZp
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 understood430Please respect copyright.PENANASrbY9faPD0
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he430Please respect copyright.PENANA8Opcp1kXws
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck430Please respect copyright.PENANAAToQ686R59
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell430Please respect copyright.PENANAuAndLHqJ6A
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into430Please respect copyright.PENANA9RWDtKAuDc
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,430Please respect copyright.PENANAJXmPgjPLKf
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know430Please respect copyright.PENANAD3SURimP1a
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At430Please respect copyright.PENANA9A6iw8jAX5
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was430Please respect copyright.PENANA4Jq0EVNKYI
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had430Please respect copyright.PENANA0z40BK1oW0
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because430Please respect copyright.PENANAWudkCVWLxN
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t430Please respect copyright.PENANA7PcpgDCLyx
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,430Please respect copyright.PENANAgNRh8FmlVf
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t430Please respect copyright.PENANA8IXtSOi8Td
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the430Please respect copyright.PENANAMHjckn2eCi
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the430Please respect copyright.PENANAZMtOcBT6CL
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or430Please respect copyright.PENANAioqh8x2jpx
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to430Please respect copyright.PENANATgcTBTkyXz
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but430Please respect copyright.PENANA7hqQirGfDY
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of430Please respect copyright.PENANAe4FYk2xzeB
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,430Please respect copyright.PENANAaecda8eHkD
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying430Please respect copyright.PENANA13pFkq7Pw5
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was430Please respect copyright.PENANAiyZfeRbB1R
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if430Please respect copyright.PENANA3l4aofIdQg
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the430Please respect copyright.PENANAbGK3aWndq3
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking430Please respect copyright.PENANAO7ln0NKsMo
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d430Please respect copyright.PENANAMHwxwSrMOn
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He430Please respect copyright.PENANAudXBobpwNl
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while430Please respect copyright.PENANAdQJxPmmdki
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he430Please respect copyright.PENANAnUGUfuUUPy
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it430Please respect copyright.PENANALhWp08gBm6
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 moved430Please respect copyright.PENANAtEyUoxWaPI
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,430Please respect copyright.PENANA99DASj8vEK
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the430Please respect copyright.PENANAru3c1LxamW
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster430Please respect copyright.PENANAp1TbeCED2O
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up430Please respect copyright.PENANAGf6tP7yb0p
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with430Please respect copyright.PENANACAAEYJr0vP
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV430Please respect copyright.PENANAvgdOI6y9p7
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and430Please respect copyright.PENANAWtAbAOdBZ9
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that430Please respect copyright.PENANAGd4ICeE4ws
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the430Please respect copyright.PENANAlORUQtW4gp
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures430Please respect copyright.PENANAT3rZMTV5A5
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and430Please respect copyright.PENANAlr8WnPJPbe
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner430Please respect copyright.PENANA4hJSiycQa5
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And430Please respect copyright.PENANAGNirPB5Cwz
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have430Please respect copyright.PENANAFIfE1tBdvw
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things430Please respect copyright.PENANA1fYsQGACVz
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls430Please respect copyright.PENANAcQSP4GGnvy
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed430Please respect copyright.PENANAI08E5gNzWY
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always430Please respect copyright.PENANAQEIXh8j3rL
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear430Please respect copyright.PENANA2pVE9uaoLO
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything430Please respect copyright.PENANA2okb1aZOBD
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.430Please respect copyright.PENANAB6mrBfG4lJ
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room430Please respect copyright.PENANAyvuEpcZGm3
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his430Please respect copyright.PENANAsndLAFV9op
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that430Please respect copyright.PENANAAqGzvVdLWd
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped430Please respect copyright.PENANAI7qZCPn1m5
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t430Please respect copyright.PENANALLbIPQ64rT
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall430Please respect copyright.PENANAeEuq7pX29J
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb430Please respect copyright.PENANAWM9SqFAVqp
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way430Please respect copyright.PENANAP9SsQFM3RR
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from430Please respect copyright.PENANAGjAhd0cFXF
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate430Please respect copyright.PENANAw7vRCorYoT
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued430Please respect copyright.PENANAwpRgLRkSll
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 and430Please respect copyright.PENANA38nfCXrMaL
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and430Please respect copyright.PENANA5bjgP5e4KE
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old430Please respect copyright.PENANAJjp4O5qGzB
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the430Please respect copyright.PENANAH04hnCmldU
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside430Please respect copyright.PENANAhza780iGZM
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was430Please respect copyright.PENANAyPr1CtDaEh
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s430Please respect copyright.PENANAmUiAQyVIhJ
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 while430Please respect copyright.PENANAJwNuSKm8vO
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 the430Please respect copyright.PENANAX0Gwo1bmt4
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,430Please respect copyright.PENANA1sLZ2C9jL3
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s430Please respect copyright.PENANA8YDIU9bv61
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He430Please respect copyright.PENANAHhwqzKBgIb
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our430Please respect copyright.PENANAYSU9iTSwYl
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 continued430Please respect copyright.PENANA6lmJW1tEam
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 corner430Please respect copyright.PENANAuS901VILeJ
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.430Please respect copyright.PENANABzbXVceYN8
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the430Please respect copyright.PENANATPRV55BBP2
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a430Please respect copyright.PENANAhoPSeXank0
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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