“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly313Please respect copyright.PENANAHSBN3lgnKu
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down313Please respect copyright.PENANAwkgOXOnzv0
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My313Please respect copyright.PENANA44E8uUbuxH
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by313Please respect copyright.PENANAmkGJFAOIEt
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in313Please respect copyright.PENANAv2pkBActct
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 he313Please respect copyright.PENANAcDqhDRWbep
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing313Please respect copyright.PENANAeYderqCZZH
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d313Please respect copyright.PENANAiLY0y04wSS
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we313Please respect copyright.PENANAtqY2VPeuEH
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,313Please respect copyright.PENANAA87nMSDySe
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains313Please respect copyright.PENANAfE09IWW9lJ
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence313Please respect copyright.PENANA8mD8CGMYJr
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically313Please respect copyright.PENANAGOZ6Em6pna
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and313Please respect copyright.PENANAzDKyaoqXOt
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before313Please respect copyright.PENANAzxJbLOYldF
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only313Please respect copyright.PENANAYnBJp0aAFp
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign313Please respect copyright.PENANAcmq2qz3Y4Y
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never313Please respect copyright.PENANAKlvAYkeMiF
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was313Please respect copyright.PENANAPBveRkcNbj
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the313Please respect copyright.PENANAuqzYBJ9xCa
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,313Please respect copyright.PENANAyS6KoDLAaM
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he313Please respect copyright.PENANAzN6TkE1z0s
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment313Please respect copyright.PENANAnW7WgCvOfM
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, Aaron313Please respect copyright.PENANAoFNRRqZStP
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was313Please respect copyright.PENANACQ5Q61sHGu
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the313Please respect copyright.PENANATpC0JT9nR3
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If313Please respect copyright.PENANAqeQWhjWJ5D
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 understood313Please respect copyright.PENANArcZTuPxVwG
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he313Please respect copyright.PENANAHZNXrZ7BjC
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck313Please respect copyright.PENANA36OSyqFFvU
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell313Please respect copyright.PENANAnXjJAccFPJ
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into313Please respect copyright.PENANAhN0B82z14g
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,313Please respect copyright.PENANAKzikXHPyaD
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know313Please respect copyright.PENANAPChFZ7iILN
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At313Please respect copyright.PENANATldGa7njuc
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was313Please respect copyright.PENANABWCF58BH8v
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had313Please respect copyright.PENANAKKehgPHfqu
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because313Please respect copyright.PENANAxF75e0Ktzu
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t313Please respect copyright.PENANAoiz6S0NEUi
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,313Please respect copyright.PENANAinegpiwsgv
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t313Please respect copyright.PENANAYhqbehRDsr
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the313Please respect copyright.PENANACevCoLmOef
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the313Please respect copyright.PENANAY2zduQx70z
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or313Please respect copyright.PENANAFO0KsYAspK
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to313Please respect copyright.PENANANpAG0QGmfy
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but313Please respect copyright.PENANAyQCVCLyenM
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of313Please respect copyright.PENANARPRIDAzdPI
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,313Please respect copyright.PENANA9Il5Nwb9Mg
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying313Please respect copyright.PENANAnv0TQt2TC8
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was313Please respect copyright.PENANAY55aaDFuqR
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if313Please respect copyright.PENANAZyIGykDoQb
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the313Please respect copyright.PENANAzQFfo97TbD
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking313Please respect copyright.PENANA6MFnaPGHCr
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d313Please respect copyright.PENANAlHdHgtsF0k
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He313Please respect copyright.PENANAlZiyraHUaG
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while313Please respect copyright.PENANAXwevGT9JdJ
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he313Please respect copyright.PENANAcLH2FOIFnT
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it313Please respect copyright.PENANAZH19vOpVwt
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 moved313Please respect copyright.PENANAoUGYs9VNdR
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,313Please respect copyright.PENANAtygUnLBYNQ
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the313Please respect copyright.PENANAGQuZ4YLUCm
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster313Please respect copyright.PENANAH84bBxR4j0
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up313Please respect copyright.PENANABxJPrT5q2K
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with313Please respect copyright.PENANAM4Fl9Bmag0
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV313Please respect copyright.PENANAm35vyBi1wD
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and313Please respect copyright.PENANAiYszNobblQ
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that313Please respect copyright.PENANAcUax3VZJyA
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the313Please respect copyright.PENANAqcxHi15B6F
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures313Please respect copyright.PENANAxp5ZvM1V5f
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and313Please respect copyright.PENANAWxgavLCLln
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner313Please respect copyright.PENANAgvBpYeDwSs
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And313Please respect copyright.PENANAaO1PqcJqsu
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have313Please respect copyright.PENANAGjYutans9N
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things313Please respect copyright.PENANA9eKK74jurP
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls313Please respect copyright.PENANAJ6Q1Zy4rAC
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed313Please respect copyright.PENANAW0NPEfu8wB
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always313Please respect copyright.PENANAX9hiKrUnq1
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear313Please respect copyright.PENANAJN6xjJb3Qd
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything313Please respect copyright.PENANAAfluhl6Jcr
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.313Please respect copyright.PENANAN05dNKAK2W
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room313Please respect copyright.PENANAkA2OBMceIV
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his313Please respect copyright.PENANAIkasJq5119
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that313Please respect copyright.PENANAgyZAcXec19
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped313Please respect copyright.PENANAb9VD47lTpP
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t313Please respect copyright.PENANAAVH4a7w9sc
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall313Please respect copyright.PENANAc1F76Z2VSi
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb313Please respect copyright.PENANAeoD3LO77ov
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way313Please respect copyright.PENANAVU6N2342Lb
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from313Please respect copyright.PENANASa7Uh54tIg
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate313Please respect copyright.PENANAcBh7N7tiHw
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued313Please respect copyright.PENANAzSPqrKieRD
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 and313Please respect copyright.PENANAXDgztCCBmY
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and313Please respect copyright.PENANAZjFMdlUn5H
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old313Please respect copyright.PENANA0lwM8V8Z7a
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the313Please respect copyright.PENANAwJ3b9DF4ZO
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside313Please respect copyright.PENANAjd1jgHPHyc
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was313Please respect copyright.PENANABlNPabHtIP
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s313Please respect copyright.PENANAc0Z5A5KLAi
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 while313Please respect copyright.PENANAh676YxibNb
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 the313Please respect copyright.PENANARuXgYP9aGp
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,313Please respect copyright.PENANAZan2vJHs6d
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s313Please respect copyright.PENANA3qAxuViNUT
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He313Please respect copyright.PENANAg0BxlZZ4A8
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our313Please respect copyright.PENANAnV903ZTbvr
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 continued313Please respect copyright.PENANABHGts1fA7u
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 corner313Please respect copyright.PENANA6Qi7faShU7
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.313Please respect copyright.PENANAzZVsrBbLfk
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the313Please respect copyright.PENANAKiGnD3Prqw
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a313Please respect copyright.PENANAeHQI2a9Cv1
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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