HOA: Season 5

House of Past Lives/House of Confusion

The green smoke is gone, and the next thing Amber knew is that she was in a house with music playing, and a man was holding my hand. "Who are you?" Amber took her hand back. "Amber, is that you?"

"Alfie!?" Amber hugged him. "Why do we have different faces?" Amber wondered. "Past life, Amber."

A man walked up to Alfie. "Charlie! You did a nice trick on your little lady over there. Making her disappear. You don't see that a lot around here these days."

Amber and Alfie frowned at each other. Charlie?

"Thank you, sir. May I ask, what is today's date?" Alfie wondered. When he asked that question, Amber looked down at her outfit. She was no longer wearing the floral dress she picked out in the morning, but she was wearing a short, red, sparkly dress.

"Why, it's May 25, 1926! We're in the city of London." The man walked away, and three blonde girls came up to Amber. "Hello there, Sophie! We just wanted to congratulate you on making that purple-silk berret. It would look so fine on the top of my beautiful blonde hair!"

The three girls walk away, and Alfie and I started searching for the rest of Sibuna. Where were they?

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Joy opened her eyes and took a deep breath. She got a whiff of hot, fresh brownies. She jumped when she saw a strange man in a trench coat and a hat.

Joy tapped him on the shoulder. "Um, hi there. Could you tell me where I am?"

"I was just about to ask the same thing." The man responded. Joy squinted her eyes. "Jerome?"

"Yes! Yes, how do you know my name?!"

"It's Joy, doofus."

"Joy, thank goodness!" He hugged her. "Where are we?"

Joy shrugged. "I think we're in a bakery." She answered. The front door opened, and a boy and a girl walk in holding a plate of lasagna. "My oh my, Charlotte you are looking mighty fine today!" The girl exclaimed. She put the lasagna on the counter.

"Lily just wanted to give you this lasagna her mother made for her to give to you. You two are best friends after all." The boy explained. "As Toby was saying...my mama made you lasagna. Congrats on you and Harry by the way. You two make a very cute couple." Lily complimented.

She set the plate down on the table, and her and Toby walk out. "Goodbye, Charlotte!" Lily sag as we left out the door with our plae of lasagna.

"What are we going to do, Jerome?" Joy asked him. While eating the lasagna, Jerome replied, "I don't know if we can do anything, Joy. We don't know where our friends are. Alfie could've become a young man living in Texas and Mara could be a cranky old lady who likes bats." Jerome shrugged, mouth full.

"Manners, Jerome."

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Fabian opened his eyes to discover that he was in a house cooking burnt pancakes. "Daddy! Daddy!" An eleven year old girl came screaming through the house for her Daddy, and apparently that was him.

She looks like she's about to have a tantrum as she jumps on Fabian. "Rufus took Nina from me. You know how much she means to me!" She screamed. Another eleven year old kid came out from the hallway. "Sarah's lying. I did not touch that freaky voo-doo baby doll." He argued. A woman came out of her room, rubbing her eyes. "Daddy, please get it back." Sarah pleaded.

"Rufus, whatever you did to Sarah apologize. And give her back her stup-" The woman paused. "pretty little doll."

"I didn't take it! Ugh!" Rufus groaned. He went back inside his room and Sarah followed him, screaming, "Mommy!" The woman sat down on the table. "Robert, what are we going to do about those two? They can't stay away from each other! And when they are together, they drive each other mad!" She complained.

Fabian frowned. "Oh, you know what I mean."

Fabian turned off the stove, and sat down with her. "Um, refresh my memory. What are both of our names?"

"Lousia Frobisher-Smythe and Robert Frobisher-Smythe? Are you okay, dear? Do I need to call the doctor?"

"No, no, no, I was just asking. Um, I have to head out, um, goodbye." Fabian hesitantly kissed her forehead, grabbed his coat, and left.

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Mara opened her eyes, and look around. She saw that she was in a library wearing glasses. Somebody tapped her shoulder, and she turned around to see a guy in a tux and a blonde girl in a sparkling red dress. "Sorry, this isn't the circus." Mara tried to hold back her laughter.

"Nice try, Mara." The guy said. "Alfie?"

"Yep. And that's Amber. It wasn't hard to track you down. I thought that the library was where you would've ended up because-"

"Okay, Alfie, sweetie, stop rambling. We have bigger things to worry about." Three other people tapped them on the shoulder. "Already here." The guy in a trench coat says. "Jerome?" Alfie wondered.

"Yep. That's Joy, and that's Fabian." He said.

"Let's do this."

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Is it a coincedence that Fabian ended up being Frobisher and that Sarah has a doll named Nina?

Who else will they run into along the way? Is Mick there too?

Sibuna.