“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly120Please respect copyright.PENANAPJaTdNFH6C
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down120Please respect copyright.PENANAKID5Zp3Vmb
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My120Please respect copyright.PENANALLCb8GivCJ
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by120Please respect copyright.PENANAeUeGgCtycV
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in120Please respect copyright.PENANAavWhD3VvRU
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 he120Please respect copyright.PENANANiOvRl7yTF
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing120Please respect copyright.PENANA1R3PnYqwAP
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d120Please respect copyright.PENANAOnZ8ksPvfl
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we120Please respect copyright.PENANAhIMler0Wql
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,120Please respect copyright.PENANAybASlhMmmY
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains120Please respect copyright.PENANA6upJGTB7rC
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence120Please respect copyright.PENANAHGAqoxWrSK
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically120Please respect copyright.PENANAEqkpCyDSzf
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and120Please respect copyright.PENANAMFGq4n6GYf
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before120Please respect copyright.PENANAtsfm22ndFr
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only120Please respect copyright.PENANAbWyxrpbdGV
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign120Please respect copyright.PENANAkGW4nMfzdE
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never120Please respect copyright.PENANAEomkI3fTKX
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was120Please respect copyright.PENANAHmNABotnky
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the120Please respect copyright.PENANAnLuvq9ZF13
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,120Please respect copyright.PENANARvKvzJgZ8T
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he120Please respect copyright.PENANAPsQnpToKc6
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment120Please respect copyright.PENANAtvXKnUjIsa
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, Aaron120Please respect copyright.PENANAeoZ7jfqW2k
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was120Please respect copyright.PENANAOyw41UpNTW
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the120Please respect copyright.PENANA04Mq3wwGfg
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If120Please respect copyright.PENANA0k4d4c7gGK
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 understood120Please respect copyright.PENANAY7ccvNV2IK
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he120Please respect copyright.PENANAcmwlEegJj6
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck120Please respect copyright.PENANAzrNzNsoVeU
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell120Please respect copyright.PENANAobLLf6Pqww
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into120Please respect copyright.PENANAqxNeOF7Hsl
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,120Please respect copyright.PENANAn5Hqsn3WA7
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know120Please respect copyright.PENANAg1WTNeOFjP
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At120Please respect copyright.PENANAaI68FUTjnC
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was120Please respect copyright.PENANApkmBZLYCgz
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had120Please respect copyright.PENANApuBklULHMZ
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because120Please respect copyright.PENANA71osJLoxun
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t120Please respect copyright.PENANAeedlP1VUyr
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,120Please respect copyright.PENANAAMVlU1awF1
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t120Please respect copyright.PENANASpR6EcgX5V
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the120Please respect copyright.PENANAB6hE0ldv5g
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the120Please respect copyright.PENANAfG2zSoIniY
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or120Please respect copyright.PENANA5Ny9sfBvcP
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to120Please respect copyright.PENANAIK7VeT06k0
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but120Please respect copyright.PENANA4PQbp0m9UV
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of120Please respect copyright.PENANAKm36ZhHzRt
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,120Please respect copyright.PENANAc1uNHnoc15
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying120Please respect copyright.PENANATsGG3walRT
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was120Please respect copyright.PENANAuwNJzlFwLd
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if120Please respect copyright.PENANArg4e8vJgVV
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the120Please respect copyright.PENANAlRJnC3aoBL
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking120Please respect copyright.PENANA0B2i9KB2RK
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d120Please respect copyright.PENANAza46XInh0H
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He120Please respect copyright.PENANAShXbzt84Zm
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while120Please respect copyright.PENANAFAvqhWAmZH
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he120Please respect copyright.PENANAEPy6GPjtpG
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it120Please respect copyright.PENANAs0nz3eQfcd
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 moved120Please respect copyright.PENANAll9l37M2lU
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,120Please respect copyright.PENANAqa5djWT4rB
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the120Please respect copyright.PENANASODzznx6TT
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster120Please respect copyright.PENANAa2d0GGfORG
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up120Please respect copyright.PENANAJ69QvOsdWk
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with120Please respect copyright.PENANA39c0mr0m15
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV120Please respect copyright.PENANAy6anmfvz8S
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and120Please respect copyright.PENANAQdesKIbKSy
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that120Please respect copyright.PENANAHvNgjnFNPg
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the120Please respect copyright.PENANAfKuUoMB5K0
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures120Please respect copyright.PENANAtNgxrdasmi
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and120Please respect copyright.PENANAAA3EE6pNqj
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner120Please respect copyright.PENANAOKrg5XkNQx
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And120Please respect copyright.PENANAjivVSfGcLb
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have120Please respect copyright.PENANAfMMVNPIcax
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things120Please respect copyright.PENANAeb8NM5P5HB
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls120Please respect copyright.PENANAEQQHzFdPHi
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed120Please respect copyright.PENANAHplBQr2vFQ
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always120Please respect copyright.PENANAAGfLgPp2oQ
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear120Please respect copyright.PENANATu7mvbZtFd
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything120Please respect copyright.PENANAwz9aWpYaee
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.120Please respect copyright.PENANA51zaA1qeWp
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room120Please respect copyright.PENANA80zH6XhPiW
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his120Please respect copyright.PENANAwTtmVfIPho
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that120Please respect copyright.PENANAhRd8ek3AJZ
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped120Please respect copyright.PENANAUJDyMln6b7
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t120Please respect copyright.PENANA9dTRtAHVJ8
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall120Please respect copyright.PENANAaqkSl7D7sI
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb120Please respect copyright.PENANAqlzrK0qibo
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way120Please respect copyright.PENANAKvgfB31DfL
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from120Please respect copyright.PENANA5odajruIM0
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate120Please respect copyright.PENANAvlJZlaSsaF
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued120Please respect copyright.PENANAxsR9pSe6Uu
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 and120Please respect copyright.PENANAbOaeELKbev
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and120Please respect copyright.PENANAsGk9IIxxXR
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old120Please respect copyright.PENANAr21puyz4VN
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the120Please respect copyright.PENANAL8kunZoViQ
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside120Please respect copyright.PENANATIouPncPsy
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was120Please respect copyright.PENANAJfEAMlnnE8
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s120Please respect copyright.PENANALCIDzpz60v
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 while120Please respect copyright.PENANAyso5Ql7nSC
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 the120Please respect copyright.PENANAkmVLy0MF8S
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,120Please respect copyright.PENANAWtiQi0sSGi
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s120Please respect copyright.PENANARspiBB106j
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He120Please respect copyright.PENANAa1ZELAg0KW
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our120Please respect copyright.PENANAWRye6g6040
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 continued120Please respect copyright.PENANAHYZMuETkTy
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 corner120Please respect copyright.PENANAcNZZB1CfcU
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.120Please respect copyright.PENANANnMRo8XGwZ
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the120Please respect copyright.PENANAU9IMph9YrA
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a120Please respect copyright.PENANAzCR2UbWKx1
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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