Charn: This is more of a rough draft, possibly, so I'm open to ideas in this chapter.

Jerome: I know how about when M-

Charn: Don't give it away! They have to read it for themselves!

Jerome: Whatever…

Charn: *sighs* I don't own HoA…or the Da Vinci Code

Nina's PoV:

Patricia looked like she was about to blow up. "You what?"

"Hey, you were there too, you should have stopped me!" I hissed.

"I did try to stop you!"

"…I also told her about the house coming to life." I mentioned.

Patricia shook her head. "This just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?"

"We need to let her into Sibuna now. She might start asking questions."

"Or she might have forgotten it."

We both looked over to Mara, who seemed to be steering clear of Jerome.

I turned my attention back to Patricia. "Sibuna meeting tonight. Same time, my room. Bring Mara." I then went over to Fabian. "Hey Fabian, do you remember anything from last night?" I asked.

"Sorry, I'm drawing a total blank…" He answered, sweeping up some cups.

"Damn…"

After several minutes of silence, he spoke up again. "Well, I remember one thing…"

I looked up at him. "And that is…?"

"At one point, we were all snogging."

"What?"

"Oh, right, um, making out..."

I nodded. "Yeah, and?"

"I think it's what lead to everyone sleeping with each other, because it was all with the same person; Jerome and Mara, Alfie and Patricia, Mick and Amber, and…" He trailed off, blushing.

I felt my cheeks turning red too. "Right…Um there's a Sibuna meeting tonight, same time in my room."

"But I thought the mystery was over."

"Well, we still need to initiate Jerome and I kind of slipped up last night."

"What do you mean?" He asked, clearly confused.

"I may have told Mara about the elixir and the house coming to life…" I waited for him to yell at me or something, but he never did.

"You were drunk, Nina. You didn't know what you were doing."

I smiled at him. "Thanks…So, Sibuna meeting?"

He smiled back. "Sure thing…"

Mara's PoV:

After we were all done cleaning, which was around two o'clock, Patricia came up to me. "Hey Mara, I have to talk to you about something."

"What?"

"What do you remember from last night?"

"Nothing much besides playing spin the bottle and when you and Nina were talking to me."

"Do you remember what we talked about?"

I thought back. Nina mentioned an elixir thing, Victor being 95 and the house coming to life. "Well, Nina said Victor was 95 and something about an elixir…" I said.

Patricia cringed. "Meet me in Nina's room tonight around 7, 'k?"

"Wait, you don't actually believe what Nina said?"

"That doesn't matter right now." She said in a snotty voice.

I looked at her quizzically. "Oook."

Patricia ran off to talk to Nina and Fabian about who-knows-what. I decided to go talk to Mick, who was in the kitchen. Shocker.

"Hey, Mick?" I asked when I walked in.

"Yeah Mara?" He said with food in his mouth.

"I want to talk to you about…the recent events."

"Oh," He swallowed to food. "Why?"

"Because you slept with Amber and I slept with Jerome and-"

"Wait, you slept with Jerome? I thought you slept with Alfie!"

"Mick, calm down-"

"I'm not going to calm down! You slept with Jerome! He's the biggest flirt in the world!"

"Oh and what's Amber, hmm?" I said, starting to get fed up.

"She's different."

"Different? How?"

"She actually gets me. Unlike you Mara."

That stung. "You know what Mick? You're a hypocrite. You think it was so wrong of Jerome and me sleeping together, by accident I may add, while you think it's totally fine when it was you and Amber." I stomped my foot on the ground.

His face lit up with hatred. "That's because it was perfectly fine!" He yelled at me.

I stared at him in awe. My mind was racing. Did he remember anything from last night? "What do you remember from last night." I demanded more instead of asked.

"Everything. I didn't drink much, actually. I remember everything."

"Then why did you hook up with Amber? And why didn't you stop me and Jerome?"

"Um…"

I rolled my eyes. "I'm waiting for an answer."

"Well, I tried to get you and Jerome to stop, but you guys didn't, so I thought I would make you jealous…"

"While I was drunk?"

He pounded his fist against the counter. "You know what? You were right; we bring out the worst in each other. I don't know why I ever let Amber talk me into getting back together with you." He stormed out of the kitchen. It was only then did I notice that everyone was around the kitchen, obviously listening in on our conversation, if you can even call it that.

Tears stung my eyes. He was right and so was I; we bring out the worst in each other. I just didn't want it to be true this time. We were getting along so well lately. I quickly left the room, pushing my way through Nina and Fabian. Right before I was out of earshot, I heard Nina whisper to Fabian. "Are we sure she should be in Sibuna now?"

~AROUND 7 THAT NIGHT~

I was crying all day, and I was still crying when it was time for this "meeting". I walked down the hall to Nina's room and opened the door. I was surprised to see almost everyone there, except for Mick.

"Hey Mara, come in." Nina said.

I looked at her warily, but sat down on the floor next to Patricia.

"So," Nina continued, "you remember the stuff I told you last night, right?" I nodded. "Well, it's true."

I looked at her, my mouth open. "You're joking, aren't you?" She shook her head.

"And there's this cup, called the Cup of Ankh that allows someone to live forever if the elixir is drunk from it." Amber piped up.

This was all too much. "Would you guys stop it? It's bad enough Mick and I broke up earlier, now you're all joking about an Elixir of Life?"

"We're not kidding Mara. It really does exist." Fabian said. I looked at all of them in the face. They were all telling the truth.

I sighed. "I believe you guys, even though it sounds completely crazy." They all smiled.

Nina raised her right hand to her right eye. "Sibuna."

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"Anubis backwards. It's our club name and the hand over the eye is our symbol." Patricia answered.

I smiled and did the same thing as Nina. "Sibuna."

"Now we don't have much time, so Jerome, Mara, you guys go get something special of yours and bring it back here quick." Nina said again. I looked over and Jerome and he shrugged.

~20 MINUTES LATER~

We were all standing outside in the freezing cold around a fire. In my left hand I had my blue ribbon from the first spelling bee I won. Jerome had what seemed to be a book. I wasn't sure what it was though.

Amber stepped forward. "You two have been granted the chance to become members of Sibuna. Now through your special possessions into the fire."

I looked at her like she was insane, which she was. "I'm not burning this!" I held up my ribbon.

"You have to make a sacrifice if you want to join." Amber said cheerily.

I sighed and stepped forward. I dropped my ribbon into the fire. Jerome followed suit. Before the book was totally destroyed, I got a glimpse of the cover; The Da Vinci Code.

"Yay!" Amber cheered. "Anyway, Jerome raise your right hand and repeat after me: I, Jerome Isaac Clarke."

He raised his hand. "I, Jerome Isaac Clarke," He seemed to be embarrassed by his middle name.

"Promise to keep the secrets of Anubis House,"

"Promise to keep the secrets of Anubis House,"

"And never speak of anything to anyone except the members of Sibuna."

"And never speak of anything to anyone except the members of Sibuna."

"Yay, you're a full member now Jerome!" Amber giggled.

"Yay, you're a full member now Jerome!" Jerome mimicked.

"Stop it."

"Stop it."

"I'm serious!"

"I'm serious!"

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!" Jerome stomped his foot down, acting like a child. Alfie laughed.

"Unless you want to be burned like your precious book, I suggest you stop it."

Jerome raised his hands up in surrender. "I was just kidding Amber, yeesh…"

Amber rolled her eyes. "Ok, your turn Mara. Now repeat after me, just not like Jerome; I, Mara Nichole Jaffray,"

I took a deep breath and raised my right hand. "I, Mara Nichole Jaffray,"

"Promise to keep the secrets of Anubis House,"

"Promise to keep the secrets of Anubis House,"

"And never speak of anything to anyone except the members of Sibuna."

"And never speak of anything to anyone except the members of Sibuna."

She clapped her hands excitedly. "You're a member of Sibuna, too!"

I smiled at her. "Sure am."

Nina looked down at her watch. "Good, we still have time to make it back to the house." Alfie grabbed a bucket of water and dumped it on the fire.

We all started to leave when Jerome pulled me back. "Mara, how are you feeling?"

"I've been better, thanks Jerome. Oh, by the way, nice choice in books." I smiled at him. "So why is that a prized possession to you?"

His face darkened ever so slightly. "My aunt gave it to me before she died…"

"I'm so sorry Jerome…" I put my hand on his arm.

"It's fine, it's not like you killed her." He joked. "And before I forget, I want those clothes back."

I realized I was still in the clothes he gave me earlier. I blushed. "Sorry, I'll give them to you tomorrow before school, ok?"

He thought for a moment. "Ok, but I better not find any girl crud on my shirt in the morning." He said with a smirk.

I laughed. "And what will happen if you do?"

"I guess you'll just have to find out…" And with that, he walked off into the darkness with the others.

I hope you all liked it! I would really like some feedback on this and some ideas for the next chapter. I know this one didn't really have a cliffhanger, not a "OMG, is she gonna die?" one at least

~Charn