In the well

I had moved into a new apartment with my girlfriend about two years ago. It was pretty small; it had only a kitchen, one bedroom, one bathroom, and a living room. All of the rooms might have been small, but the rent was good, and we didn't really care. Neither of us made enough money to move out of the place, so we tried to make the most of it. One of the oddest things about the place was that the left wall was completely hollowed out, and the right wall was rock solid. I didn't even notice when we first moved in. Our neighbors were always quiet and kept mostly to themselves. When we moved in, the only neighbors we had were the Whites. The Whites were to the right of us, and they were an elderly couple. They were nice to us. When we had first moved in, they brought us a 'welcome to the building' present, which is what they do for all of the new people who had moved in to an apartment in the building. It was a small apple pie, which was actually quite good. About five or six months after my girlfriend and I moved in, there was a new guy that had moved into the right of us. I remember first meeting him. I had just gotten back to the building with some groceries, and as I climbed up the stairs to my apartment, I accidentally bumped into someone. 'Sorry, excuse me Mr...' but I didn't know who this guy was. Our building is fairly small, and just about everyone knows everyone else. The man I had bumped into was middle aged, probably in his mid-fifties. Something about him was odd, though. He had deep wrinkles, pale white skin, and long greasy black hair that were unkempt and around his face and back. He looked rather sickly, like he needed to see a doctor. His eyes were a solid dark purple, which is something that I have never seen before in my entire life. 'Peters' the man said with a grin that stretched ear to ear. His teeth were disgusting. They were un-brushed and looked like they were rotting away. I can still smell his putrid breath, which seemed to reek of old decaying meat. All though his appearance was a little bit creepy, he seemed nice enough. 'Nice to meet you, Mr. Peters. My names Matt. Are you new to the building?'� I asked. Mr. Peters smile grew even bigger. I don't know how he, let alone any human could smile that wide. 'Yes, I am moving in. And I'm going to be living right next to your apartment.' He said as we both walked up the stairs to the top floor. When we reached the top floor, Mr. Peters pace increased as he quickly walked to the door, opened it with his key, and shut the door behind him. It was odd, though. He did it so quickly, it was like a blur. I sighed to myself. 'Great, now I have a freakish neighbor.' I thought to myself as I turned the handle of my door. It was about 4:00 P.M. My girlfriend, Sandra, was still at her job. She's a hair stylist, and I'm a chef at a local Italian restaurant. I usually don't get off until later, but because business was slow that day, and nobody was coming in, we closed early. I put the groceries down on the kitchen table and start to unload everything into the refrigerator. I didn't have much with me, only about one bag. Quart of milk, a few sticks of butter, ground hamburger meat, and a box of cereal. I then got a text message from my friend, Tyler. 'Bro, I just got my hands on the new Red Dead Redemption game, and you need to go out and get it so we can play together.' Was what the message read. Now, I wasn't much of a gamer, but Tyler is one of my closest friends that I have. We've been best friends ever since middle school. I did have an Xbox 360, and Tyler and I would play games together from time to time. I didn't really have anything better or more interesting to do, so I texted him back saying I would go out and buy it. As I was just about to leave to go get the game, I heard a lot of banging coming from the wall. It was weird though, because it was so clear. I went up to the left side of the wall and gave it a light tap with my knuckle. This was the first time that I realized that for whatever reason, the wall was hollow like a log. I went to the right wall, and repeated the process, only to be greeted with a thud. This wall was solid. I was puzzled on why in the world the builders of this place would make one wall solid, and the other hollow. I was also curious as to what Mr. Peters was doing to make all of that noise. I just shrugged it off. 'Probably just moving things in or something.' I told myself. But, that couldn't be right. He didn't have anything with him when I saw him. I shrugged it off, and left to go get the game. I got back at around 5:00 with my new game, and I was glad to discover that the banging from Mr. Peters ceased. I was happy with this. I didn't really care what he was doing, as long as he did it quietly. I popped the game in and put my headset on. I have a pretty good headset, it blocks out most sounds. It was nice and tight around the ears, and I loved it. Tyler and I played and talked for almost three hours straight. I would have gone longer, but Sandra came home at about 8:00. I told Tyler that I had to go, and that we could play more tomorrow after I was done with work. Tyler didn't have a job. He didn't need one. His father was a rich man who owned some oil company or something like that, I don't really remember. But I do know that he spoils Tyler rotten, giving him tons of money for doing absolutely nothing at all. I powered off the console and got up out of my chair to give Sandra a hug. We talked about stuff like how our days went, and things like that. I then I remembered Mr. Peters. 'Did you know that someone was moving into the apartment right next to us?' I asked. She told me that she was unaware of a new member joining our building. Weird that she didn't know of Mr. Peters. I decided that I would go ask Mr. and Mrs. White tomorrow morning. They know everybody in the building. They probably already have a pie baked and ready to send over to his apartment. I didn't sleep well that night. I had an insane dream about Mr. Peters just standing over my bed, my girlfriend beside me. Smiling that terrifying smile. I was going to do something, wake up my girlfriend, run away in fear, anything. But I was stopped when he simply put his finger over my lips and quietly said 'Shhh' in a soft, friendly voice. It didn't feel like a dream, though. Everything was so clear, and I can remember it all so well. It's impossible that it was real, though. That's what my therapist told me, at least. After a long sleepless night, I took a quick shower and was going to get some food for breakfast. I also noticed the banging on the wall from Mr. Peters apartment. It was softer this time, and more... creepy. After my shower, I went to my kitchen. Only, something was off. Quart of milk, a few sticks of butter, ground hamburger meat, but no box of cereal. I looked everywhere, thinking I just misplaced it by accident. Sandra woke up thanks to me frantically looking for the box. 'Sandra, what'd you do with the cereal?' I asked her while still looking in the various shelves in my kitchen. 'Didn't you put it in here?' she asked while pointing to the spot where I swore that I put it. 'I could have sworn that I did, but I don't know where it went. Please tell me that you took it,' I said. Yet she continued to deny the accusation. I thought it was her regardless. What else could it have been? A burglar? No. What burglar steals boxes of cereal? I didn't pay much attention to it, though. I just said, 'Guess it just grew a pair of legs and walked off.' and forgot about the whole ordeal. I went over to the Whites and knocked on their door. I was greeted when Mr. White answered. 'Hey there, son. How are you this fine morning?' He asked with his typical happy-go-lucky tone of voice. 'Hey there Mr. White. I'm doing well, thanks for asking. But I came over to ask you about someone. Have you heard of a Mr. Peters?' I asked. Mr. White frowned when I asked. 'Well, no. Sorry son, can't say that I have. Who is he?' He questioned. 'He moved into the apartment right next to ours. I'm surprised that you don't know who he is. You of all people in this building would know if someone new was moving in.' I said. Mr. White then smiled and said, 'Well we should go and see how's he's doing, then.' I think about it for a second, and took him up on his offer. The two of us walked over to his door, and Mr. White knocked on the door. We stood there for a little bit, only to returned with silence. I found it odd that there was no response what so ever. We didn't even hear any noises from the other side of the door. 'Hmm.. He must be sleeping, still.' chimed in Mr. White. I found it to be a reasonable for the lack of sounds coming from the other side of the door. 'Well, how about we come back later to see if he's awake?' I ask Mr. White. He agrees to the offer, and says that he'll have a freshly bakes pie ready for when I get back from work. We part ways, and I go about my day as normal. Then I got back home. I changed my clothes, and then went to the kitchen to grab something to eat really fast before I went over to see Mr. White. I grabbed a chocolate bar, and went to the refrigerator. But when I opened the door, I saw no milk quart. Now I was starting to get an annoyed. Was Sandra just pulling a prank or something? I got home before her again, so I decided to just go see to Mr. White and talk to Sandra when she got home. I knocked on the door, and got something I wasn't expecting at all. Mrs. White answered the door, tears running down her cheeks and red irritated eyes. 'Hello, Matt.' She said through her crying. I was completely caught off guard by this, so I simply asked what had happened to out her in this state. 'It's George. My poor, sweet George.' She said. Now, even though Sandra and I just called him, 'Mr. White', we both knew his first name was George. 'What happened to him?' I asked. 'He's gone! He just disappeared!' She said through her now heavy sobbing. My mind rushed to one conclusion; Mr. Peters. 'Follow me, now.' I told Mrs. White. I rushed down the hall to Mr. Peters door. I pounded my fist on the door. 'Mr. Peters! Open up right now!' I was once again returned with silence. Complete and utter silence. Mrs. White came running down the hallway and caught up to me. 'Have you called the police about Mr. White?' I asked. She nodded. 'They came over and I told them what happened. Now, why are you banging the door? Who's Mr. Peters?' I explained everything to her, and she too had never heard of him. Concerned, I pulled out my phone and dialed 911. Mrs. White and I waited for the police to arrive, but before they could get to us, Sandra came walking down the hallway. 'What's going on here?' She asked us. I told her about everything that had happened. Mr. White and I coming over, the missing milk, and Mr. White's disappearance. Sandra waited with us for the police to arrive. They finally got to the apartment, and I yet again explained my story. They both looked at each other, and knocked on the door, also to be greeted with silence. They went to go talk to the building manager to see if they could get some more information, but he said that there was no Mr. Peters who lived in that apartment. Both the police and the building manager returned to the door, master key in hand. The door then swung open. Nothing. It was just a normal empty room. We all walked in, confused, me more then the others. Then I remembered. I walked over to the wall, and gave it a light knock with my first. The hollow walls made its standard sound. I called everyone over, and showed that the wall was in fact hollow. What went from two police officers quickly escalated into ten. It took about three hours, but Sandra, Mrs. White, the building manager and I all waited for the police to finger out what to do next. After some discussion, the decision was to knock down the hollowed wall, and what I saw next would change my life forever. It was a terrible sight. Mr. Peters lay quietly next to the dead corpse Mr. White, his stomach messily flayed open. It looked as if Mr. Peters used his teeth to grind a large slit in his stomach, and then used his fingers to pry it open. But that wasn't the worst part of it was that in his opened up stomach, was a pit of milk, cereal, and blood. There was so much blood.. All over both of their bodies. Mrs. White didn't take it well. She was hysterical, and started to vomit. Some of the policemen vomited as well, and even though I felt like I was going to, I resisted. Even though that the sight was hooraying, that still isn't the worst part. The worst thing of the scene was his smile. He had that same ear to ear grin as he did when we first met. The police had their guns drawn, pointed right at him. But he just smiled, straight at me. Straight into my eyes. His gaze sent chills running up my spine. He got up and stepped away from his body, his eyes never leaving mine. His smile never losing its size. The police brought him out to the apartment, and put handcuffs on him. Other officers took Mr. White out of the hollowed wall, Mrs. White crying all the way. I feel for her, really I do. If I found Sandra in that state, I don't know how I would react. Mr. Peters was taken away, and he was given the death penalty. I saw a therapist not long after the ordeal, and I still see him once every week. I'm writing this right now, just to warn everyone out there. When you hear banging at you wall or roof, or are just hearing 'house noises', you might want to give it a closer inspection. It probably just is normal 'house noises', but after this event I never took the chance. I'm still incredibly paranoid. I remember one night at around 3:00 in the morning; i heard some banging coming from my kitchen. I got up as I always do, but this time was different. I saw Mr. Peters smiling at me, his teeth dripping with a crimson fluid, which had to be blood. I turned on the light, and he simply vanished into thin air. I don't know why this is happening to me. I don't even believe in the supernatural or anything, but I know what I saw. He was just standing there, looking right at me. Smiling that terrifying smile.