Another new Phantom in the Hood. As you can see from the title, someone new is coming into the house. But it is not revealed who. Big mystery. You will find out while reading. Which I hope you will enjoy. So, here we go.

Greetings Petit Erik


8.1.2022

Today everything was totally relaxed. Jenny was at home, is not on duty until next weekend and the opera spirits were doing great. They were lolling around outside in the garden. It was cold but the sun was shining. And the sun can never be good enough for the former cellar dwellers. So they all sat quite comfortably on a blanket that lay on the lawn, had sunglasses on and sunbathed. Jenny hoped that the sun would give their pale skin some color. Erik in particular looked quite pale, almost like a real ghost. While the others were outside, Jenny quickly put away the dishes from breakfast in the kitchen so that she could go outside with them. Shortly after she was done, she headed for the garden. As she came out of the kitchen, the doorbell rang. Jenny turned around and walked towards the door. She opened it and faltered in surprise and shock for the first time.

Standing in front of her door was someone she had never seen before. But if she looked closely, she could recognize someone. Suddenly it popped into her head, Peter Hofmann, the first German phantom on stage. Wow, she thought to herself, this is a surprise.

"Hello," he said, "sorry I'm late. Is there still room somewhere?"

Jenny faltered for a few seconds.

Then she mentally brought herself back to the real world and said: "Sure, there's still a room available on the 3rd floor. You'd be with me and a few others. Is that okay with you?"

"Perfectly fine," he said.

With that, Jenny led him into the house and up to the 3rd floor. When he was done, he came out of his room again with a boyish grin. Jenny knew it had to do with the organ and the piano. Fortunately, this room was also soundproofed.

"So, knowing your rule about being in this house, I'll just do it here."

With that statement, he took off his mask and wig and put them in his room. Jenny grinned at him and was asked where the other colleagues were.

"They're down in the garden sunning themselves."

"Sunbathing?" asked Hofmann, puzzled.

"Yes, they are a bit pale after all, especially Erik, and that's why they've all gone out and are now lying on the grass. But they're all wearing sunglasses."

"Do they even hold up on those who don't have noses?" asked Hofmann with a small grin.

"Surprisingly they even hold, I wouldn't have thought so either," Jenny replied, "do you want to come down?"

"Sure," Hofmann said and together they went downstairs to the garden to the other phantoms.


Jenny was still calling to them from the terrace: "Guys, someone new is here. I brought him right away." After saying this, she pointed to Hofmann, who was standing somewhat nervously next to her. Borchert and Edenborn jumped in surprise, went to him and immediately the three were engaged in conversation.

"Well, that went better than expected," Jenny said, walking over to the other gentlemen. Crawford, like the rest of them, looked a little confused, and asked Jenny who this new phantom was.

Jenny looked at him and said, "This is Hofmann, the German Crawford, so to speak." At this, Crawford looked at her in surprise.

"Well," Jenny replied, "you were the first on the stage in general and Hofmann was the first in Germany. The German you, so to speak."

After that, something clicked in the others' heads, too. After learning this, they went to the three who were still in conversation and soon they were all talking to each other.

"Did your Christine actually come too?" asked Wilkinson.

"Of course," Hofmann replied, "but because I heard there was already an Anna here," with a raised eyebrow he pointed at Lewis, "I decided, so there would be no confusion, to call my Maria, just so you know."

By now the others had been enlightened to the fact that the middle name of Hofmann's Christine was Maria, so that shouldn't be a problem with the ladies' names.


After sharing experiences and generally talking to each other, everyone went back to Jenny, who in the meantime had laid down on the grass by herself and looked completely relaxed. The others also lay down again and relaxed back to sunbathing.

"Hmm, that feels good," Kari said, lolling on the blanket with pleasure.

"Feels really good after living in a basement most of your life," Panaro murmured next to Kari.

In the time while they all lived in the house together, Kari and Panaro had become very good friends. Even Jenny had become very good friends with many. Her best friends among all the people were Gerry, Piterman and Kari. She found it totally relaxing to chat with them. Especially because they all had a very good sense of humor, which Jenny found totally delicious. But when they were ranting about the Vicomtes, all of the Phantoms were on hand and then it got a little noisy in the living room. Jenny actively supported them in the discussions. She, too, disliked the Vicomtes and harbored a very strong antipathy towards them, which, of course, earned her the pride of the opera spirits.

"Do we actually want to ask the Christines to come over?" muttered Warlow.

Jones replied: "Not a bad idea. Sunbathing together, lovely."

Jenny, meanwhile, hummed to herself: "I'm walking on sunshine, whoa, I'm walking on sunshine."

Then she stopped humming and looked at the others, "If you don't have a problem with that, I'd write Sierra and ask if they'd like to come?"

Warlow told her: "Yes please, that would be very nice."

Jenny clutched her smart phone, opened Sierra's contact and texted her: "Hey Sierra, would you like to come over with the others? We'll be in the back garden. Best bring sunglasses. Regards Jen."

Five minutes later, a message came back already. It read: "Hi, yeah sure, we'd love to come over. We would just come through the patio door. We'll bring sunglasses. See you in a bit. Greetings." Jenny grinned. Perfect, spending the weekend with the others would be really great.

"So?" asked Warlow.

"They're coming," Jenny said, "they'll be through the patio door in a minute. They know the direction. They'll bring sunglasses, too."

At that, many thumbs up appeared. No one felt much like exercising today. Everyone just wanted to relax.


A short time later, the ladies and the children already appeared. Of course, the three boys ran back to their fathers and dropped down on the blanket next to them. The latter looked at their sons and grinned at them, whereupon the kids grinned back, put on their sunglasses and relaxed as well.

"Partner look," Jake muttered to his father.

"That's right," Murphy replied just as quietly.

In fact, the two looked pretty much alike: both had sunglasses on, arms folded behind their heads, and looked pretty relaxed. The Christines had also dropped down to their phantoms on the blanket and looked pretty relaxed, too. So everyone was lying quite comfortably in the sunlight, basking.

Suddenly Emmy, who was snuggled up to Gerry with pleasure, murmured softly: "That one you sent us last week looked pretty good and fun."

"Last week?" muttered Jenny in confusion, "oh, that. Yeah, that was pretty good."

"Huh, what was last week?" asked Gerry. Emmy just sent him a raised eyebrow and then he understood.

"Oh," he said, blushing slightly.

Emmy giggled and snuggled back up to him. The other opera ghosts had also heard the conversation and blushed slightly as well. Except for Hofmann, who still needed to be explained what had happened last week.

He asked: "What was going on because you're all blushing?"

Jenny said: "Oh, nothing. Just a little karaoke singing, which was very amusing. Sierra will have to show you the recording sometime or I will. It's really very funny."

As she said this, he could already imagine how the other gentlemen, who normally had perfect singing skills, were now not singing straight and perfectly. At the risk that this would definitely happen again later and he would be there, he also blushed a little. Jenny just grinned and lay down again with pleasure.


"Is there anything we can look at tonight with you guys? Well, all of us together? Because your living room is big enough," Elizabeth, called Liz, asked from Mauer's side.

Of the Phantoms and Christines, they were the two who were also married. The others either got cold feet, died (luckily only in the fictional world. Here they are squeaky clean) or one just stayed in a normal love relationship.

"Yeah no problem. Beamer is up in the attic, everything works and I have enough films too. We would just have to agree on a what, otherwise there will be war," Jenny said.

"But then we would also need something we are all interested in," said Liz.

Jenny replied, "That's right. After all, I grew up with Disney, so I would suggest something from that."

"Disney?" asked 45 people at once, "what's that?"

Jenny looked like she had been struck by lightning.

"WHAAT!" she exclaimed, causing everyone to cringe, "you don't know Disney? We'll fix that tonight. You're not leaving until you all know what Disney is."

She looked at everyone with such a piercing stare, you'd think it could melt steel. Even Erik had flinched at that look, which was special, he had a scary look himself because of his yellow eyes.

"Okay," came only a small murmur from the others. Everyone was still too shocked to say more. Jenny, meanwhile, was contentedly lying in the sun again.

Very late, everyone went back to the house. After a quick and shared dinner, they all went into the living room together, while Jenny ran up to the attic to get the beamer and one floor below, the laptop from her room. After she had put all this down in the living room, she ran into her room again to get her DVDs. She then dragged all of these back downstairs as well.

Jones said: "We'll let you choose because we have no idea."

"Okay," Jenny said, picking up a DVD, putting the disc into her laptop, which she had already connected to the projector, and turning the DVD on.

"Oh, Lerik can you please turn off the lights still because you're at the counter?" she asked him, to which he nodded, turned off the lights and plunged the room into darkness.


Soon the movie started as well. Jenny had chosen 'Aristocats', especially because the movie was set in Paris. But the movie itself was one of her favorites. So she curled up on an armchair, crumbled under a blanket, and watched in relaxation. The children leaned against their fathers' shoulders while the Christines snuggled against the sides of their OGs. When the two British goose ladies appeared on the scene, subtle glances were cast by all in the direction of the British cast, who turned with heated cheeks to continue watching the film. From some came only quiet chuckles at this and even Jenny smirked.

When the movie was over, the three youngest of the group were sent to bed. To be honest, they were pretty tired. Even protesting wouldn't have helped, everyone could see it in their faces. So they said their friendly goodbyes and went to their respective rooms. It must be said that they didn't have an extra room for each of them, so they slept with their parents in their room. But this was no problem at all for both parties, the children usually also slept with their mothers in the room. After the three of them went upstairs- fortunately they had inherited their fathers' good vision that let them find their way even in the dark because it was still pitch black- the living room was empty.

"So, now what?" asked Rebecca, called Becky, who was sitting next to Wilkinson.

Jenny thought for a moment: "Hmm," she said, "either we watch some more or go to sleep too. I'd be open to both."

Becky responded by saying: "I'd like to lay down because I'm tired too, and I think or hope I'm not the only one."

Lerik, as if on command, turned on the light switch so Jenny could see everyone. Indeed, many already looked tired or were still trying to hold their eyes open.

"Okay," she decided, "let's all go to our flea-boxes and see tomorrow, all right?"

There came only silent nods. Together, everything was cleaned up. The ladies who were still awake helped Jenny with cleaning up the equipment and those where it was no longer possible were carried into the rooms by their phantoms. When everything was finished at the end, the others also said goodbye upstairs.

"And we're all the way up, aren't we?" asked Hofmann to Jenny.

"Yep," the latter replied.

"Well then, ladies first," and with a bow he stepped aside and let Jenny go up the stairs first.

The latter put her palm to her chin, guided her hand away from it in a quick motion, and said something.

"What was that?" asked Maria, who was walking behind her.

Jenny said, "That's 'thank you' in sign language. I taught myself."

Maria gave her an astonished look. When the three arrived on the 3rd floor, they separated at their respective rooms and Jenny went to hers. Soon she lay down in her bed and said quietly to herself: "Sunshine, Disney, and a new Phantom. Not bad for the new year." Shortly after, no sound came from her room either.