About That House
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Ongoing1h 18m
Last published Mon, May 17, 2021
It is the last summer break before university. Brooke and her little sister, together with her best friend, Hannah, went on a church camp for tradition's sake. But one morning, Brooke and Hannah slipped away among the crowds and left the camp to seek their own happiness for the first and last time before high school ends.
A mysterious local, a mansion in the middle of a small town no one has heard of, and a boy particularly fond to cook. A small encounter changes Brooke's whole plan to spend her last summer break before college with her little sister. When she has to choose between what is right and what felt right, will she be able to overcome her thoughts and follow what is right? Will she lose herself in the process? All because of what lays in this big, cold house.
'Look around you! There is no sense of time here because people aren't allowed to know how to discern the time, if they know, they'll know that it's time to leave and this place will be ruined!"
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