My Roommate Is Dead (BxB)✔

Chapter 3 - Strange Day

"Why are you sleeping down here?" Asked Terrance, a slightly larger-sized man with bright red hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down at Aaron speculatively.

Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. "My bed didn't feel comfortable."

"You crazy bastard." The man snorted, then plopped down by Aaron's feet, nearly crushing them. "I heard some crazy person tried to break in last night, and here you are sleeping by the front door."

Arron didn't think it'd be wise to bring up the fact that he wasn't as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing he did know was that he'd never sleep comfortably again. "I don't suppose you'd like to trade rooms, would you?"

"Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we like it. Plus I doubt he'd appreciate everything getting moved around."

Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor's house, giving him a clear view into their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains closed in case anyone accused him of spying.

"Incoming!"

"Huh?" Aaron didn't have time to escape before Terrance leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. "UGH! Gross!" He waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.

"I warned ya." Terrance smirked, snatching up the remote and turning on the television.

Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. "No, you did not!" Before heading back upstairs to take a shower.

His room didn't seem quite as scary now since Caleb only showed up around midnight. In hindsight that should probably have been a sign that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never made the door creak.

Arron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then, there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.

The case was still open and one of the theories was that he had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment 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, Aaron went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was now.

Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If 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 understood there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!

He considered going to the police about this but was struck by the reality of the situation. It wasn't like he could just waltz on up and tell them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He'd definitely get questioned on how he knew that.

Yeah, no. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up, thank you.

That didn't satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At the very least, his family should know what happened to him.

Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was pretty easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?

He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had any additional information. He felt like something was off about Caleb's case because there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn't found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again, people went missing every day and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn't raised enough of a fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?