My Roommate Is Dead (BxB)✔

Chapter 5 - Research

The most logical explanation was that the camera feed had frozen on a single frame, so Todd grabbed the toaster from off the counter and held it like a weapon as he went to check and see who was really behind the door. Yet, the banging continued until he flung it open to find that there was, in fact, no one there. After that, the banging stopped for the rest of the night.

Everyone was officially freaked out at that point. By morning, Trevor had packed up his essentials and decided to stay at his sister's place for a bit. Elijah found it thrilling though and started talking about documenting the anomaly. 

Aaron on the other hand was glad he hadn't completely gone mental over what was happening. Now that the others saw that something strange was happening, they wouldn't consider him insane when he told them the rest.

Todd was acting as the house leader, making sure no one jumped to conclusions. He theorized that the camera feed was playing back older footage or had gotten frozen on a single frame with the audio stuck on a recording of the knocking just before the culprit ran off. It was newly installed after all, so anything was possible and he pushed that theory so hard, that most of the others began to believe it.

This time, Aaron chose to sleep in his room, finding it less scary than whatever was happening downstairs. Firstly, Caleb may have been a ghost, but he still acted like a person that he could talk and reason with. But that door...Whatever it was, it didn't seem to respond to words. It was something creepier, something unknown...

Aaron completely forgot about his video editing for the day. He kind of liked Trevor's idea to move back in with his parents, then remembered why he moved out in the first place and dropped that thought like a hot potato.

Not that his parents were bad people. They were just a bit old-fashioned...

As everyone scrambled to figure out what to do, he was left alone with Cliff, the skeptic, who had grown very attached to Todd's explanation and took every chance to roll his eyes at the others whenever they started talking about it.

"I'm telling you, it's just someone playing pranks." He snorted, sitting at the dining room table for once and sipping at his glass of sweet tea. "Ya'll just want to be special."

"But what if that's not the case?" Aaron dared to argue.

It was just him, Cliff, and Justin now. Justin was the strong silent type who preferred listening instead of talking.

"You saying ghosts are real?" Cliff asked.

"Dude, I told you about Caleb. He was in my room, sleeping in a spare bed that was never there!"

"Are you still on that?"

"Yes!" Aaron huffed. "I was never OFF that. After what Elijah said, I went to confront him and he just vanished."

"Sounds like my dad." Cliff chuckled and Aaron tossed him a dirty look. "Dude, just listen. I'm telling the truth."

Cliff sucked in a breath and finally gave Aaron his full attention. "Alright, fine. So what happened then? Did you and Mr. Ghost have a fight or something?"

"No? Why would you think that?"

"Well you're saying we're being haunted by that Caleb guy, and since that's the only ghost any of us have seen, that means he's gotta be the one banging on the door at night, right?"

Aaron shook his head. "No. I don't think it's him. Last night he didn't seem to hear it at all."

"Bitch what?" Cliff eyed him. "Why are you talking like that ghost was standing there with you?"