House of Twins:
Nina and Aaron quickly hid behind the curtains. Mr. Sweet entered his office and sat down at his desk. Nina and Aaron carefully poked their heads out from behind the curtains. The door opened and Nina and Aaron quickly hid behind the curtains again, Ms. Delaney walked into the office.
"Hi Eric," said Ms. Delaney.
"Maeve what a pleasure to have you here," said Eric.
"Eric you haven't forgotten, have you?" Asked Ms. Delaney.
"Of course not, I'm very much looking forward to our Salsa lesson tonight," said Mr. Sweet.
"It's definitely gonna be hot," said Ms. Delaney.
"But every room you walk into is gonna be hot,"' said Mr. Sweet.
"Oh Eric, you're such a flatterer," said Ms. Delaney.
"Let's go home, I have to polish my dancing shoes," said Mr. Sweet.
Mr. Sweet got up and left the office with Ms. Delaney. Nina and Aaron came out from behind the curtain.
"Okay, I would have gladly gotten through the entire school year without hearing that," said Aaron.
"Come on, let's get out of here," said Nina.
"But we haven't found our twin yet," said Aaron.
"We'll figure out another way to get the twins, we need to get out of here and go home," said Nina.
Fortunately for Nina and Aaron, Mr. Sweet had not locked the office, they left the office and headed home.
In the meantime in the house, Jerome was sitting in the living room, but walked in and sat down next to him.
"Jerome, I would like to have a word with you," said Mara.
"Me too with you," said Jerome.
"Okay, but I'll go first," said Mara.
"Go ahead," said Jerome.
"I'm sorry," said Mara.
"No, you don't have to say sorry, I was exaggerating," said Jerome.
"I understand your reaction. You're worried that our relationship won't last when we're at different universities," said Mara.
"But what if the distance is too much for us?" Asked Jerome.
"Then we can still have a relationship and give the long-distance relationship a chance," said Mara.
"You tried that with Mick and you broke up with him," said Jerome.
"Because I fell in love with you," said Mara.
"Exactly, what if you meet someone very smart who is a great fit for you and you break up with me to be with him," said Jerome.
"Jerome I will never do that to you," said Mara.
"I know that, It's just, I don't want to miss you," said Jerome.
"But we're not out of school yet," said Mara.
"I know," said Jerome.
"But you were right, we have to make time for each other and that don't needs to be scheduled," said Mara.
"So shall we catch a movie in the town soon?" Asked Jerome.
"Sounds like a lovely plan," said Mara.
"I love you Mara," said Jerome.
"I love you too, Jerome," said Mara.
Jerome and Mara hugged each other and were happy to have made up.
A few hours later, the Anubis residents had just finished eating. The club was in Nina and Amber's room for a club meeting.
"Unfortunately, we were not able to look in the student files to see if there are any other twins in school here," said Nina.
"All we found out is that Sweetie and Ms. Delaney are in Salsa class together and that's really not is that I needed to know, said Aaron.
"I love salsa dancing," said Amber.
"Amber, keep your focus please," said Aaron.
"Are you guys going to take another shot tomorrow?" Asked Alfie.
"It doesn't seem convenient, we were almost caught today and we don't even know where to look," "said Nina.
"So how are your searches going?" Asked Arron.
"We are still working, but we haven't been able to find a dance school that teaches the Egyptian love dance," said Amber.
"And we haven't had a chance to look for the lutes," said Fabian.
"Fabian, did you get a chance to look at the pictures Mason sent?" Asked Nina.
"A little bit, but not much I didn't get much wiser," said Fabian.
"That research will come later, you said it yourself Fabian, this has our priority now," said Aaron.
"And I've said I'll try to do as much as I can, but this task is my priority," said Fabian.
After the club meeting everyone went to their rooms and not much later all the residents in Anubis house were asleep.
The next day. School had passed quickly. Nina and Aaron were off to the park.
"Why are we at the park Aaron?" Asked Nina.
"Because always on this day there are students playing music," said Aaron.
"And there might be a twin for us here," said Nina.
"Exactly," said Aaron.
"But where in the park exactly?" Asked Nina
"I know the spot, come with me," said Aaron.
Nina followed Aaron through the park, At one point they came to a section of the park where all the schoolchildren were playing music instruments. Nina looked around and then she twin girls playing the violin.
"Aaron look at them," said Nina.
"What?" Asked Aaron.
"Those two girls," said Nina.
Aaron looked in the direction Nina was looking and saw the twins, he and Nina gave each other a high five. After a while the schoolchildren stopped playing music, Nina and Aaron walked towards the twins.
"You guys played really beautifully, very impressive," said Nina.
"Thank you," said the twin girls in unison
"Do you perform alone, without the group, just the two of you?" Asked Aaron.
"Sometimes," said the twin girls in unison again.
"And can we maybe hire you?" Asked Nina.
"It depends," said a young girl.
"Depends on what?" Asked Aaron.
"How much you want it, I'm Hillary, the twins' manager," said Hillary.
"Manager?" Asked Nina.
"Aren't you a little young to be a manager?" Asked Aaron.
"Young or not, if you want to talk to the twins, it's through me, you understand," said Hillary.
"I get it already, how much is this going to cost me?" Asked Aaron.
"Who says this is about money," said Hillary.
"What do you want us to do then?" Asked Nina.
"Let's see if you can entertain us," said Hillary.
Nina and Aaron decided to do as they were asked. They had to drink the craziest assignments from bottle of water while standing upside down and singing a song at the same time, from eating as many cookies as possible and then trying to whistle a song and much more. After an hour, Nina and Aaron were completely exhausted.
"Congratulations you made it," said Hillary.
"Thank goodness, I'm feeling super sick after eating all those cookies," said Aaron.
"But we have done all the assignments, have we booked the twins?" Asked Nina.
"You better ask him that," said Hillary.
Nina and Aaron turned and saw a man walking up and he stood next to the twins and Hillary started to run away as fast as she could.
"And who are you?" Asked Nina.
"I'm their father," said the man.
Oh hello, we just booked the twins with their manager," said Aaron.
"Manager? My daughters don't have a manager at all, if anyone wants them to perform it has to be arranged through me," said the man.
"Through you?" Asked Nina.
"Yes and who are you exactly?" Asked the man.
"We are interns for the music conservatory for young talent," lied Aaron.
"So?" Asked the man.
"Sir, we are giving an open-air concert soon, where you twins might be discovered by the Swedish talent scout Magnusson, who can train them to the absolutes world classes," lied Aaron.
"Really?" Asked the man.
"So what's it gonna be? Do you want the best for your daughters?" Asked Aaron.
"Or do you want them to a life on the cold street stones, so cold that their fingers freeze off," said Nina, playing along with Aaron.
"Of course I don't want that," said the man.
"Good," said Nina.
"Here's my number, send me a message, and you'll get a message with the address and when and what time, said Aaron.
"Okay, I'll be in touch," said the man.
"That's a wise decision and goodbye," said Aaron.
Nina and Aaron walked away and were on their way back to Anubis house.
"We're not going to tell the others about what we had to do, right?" Asked Aaron.
"No, that stays between us," said Nina.
"Good, I don't want anyone to know that we got scammed by a little girl," said Aaron.
In the meantime, Victor sat in his office and was going through an old photo album, he came to a page of a photo of him and his father and it brought back many memories.
"Even though you were the only one who knew how to get the elixir of life, I'm glad you no longer have control over me father," said Victor.
Victor browsed further through the photo album and then came across a photo of him, Sarah and Rufus from when they were children.
"Oh Sarah, I'm so very sorry for what I did to you, I hope one day you will forgive me," said Victor.
Victor closed the photo album and put it away in his drawer. Victor wiped the tears away from his eyes.
In the meantime Otis and Joy were in the living room and sitting at the table doing their homework, they heard someone approaching and then saw Jerome and Mara walking out of the house hand in hand.
"From the looks of it, they made up with each other," said Otis.
"Yes, thank goodness," said Joy.
"So you knew about their fight, too?" Asked Otis.
"Yes, so did you," said Joy.
"I noticed something was bothering Jerome, then I talked to him about it and what was bothering him was that he was worried about his relationship future with Mara," said Otis.
"I also talked to Mara about that, she didn't understand Jerome was actually insecure," said Joy.
"And now we've made that clear and they've talked it out," said Otis.
"So it's actually thanks to us that things are good again between those two, we saved their relationship," said Joy.
"Actually if you think about it, then yes," said Otis.
"All jokes aside, I'm really glad they're happy again," said Joy.
"So am I," said Otis.
"And I'll tell you something else," said Joy.
"What is it?" asked Otis.
"You know when Mara gave the advice, I was just thinking about what you said, that we should enjoy the now and the time we have left together," said Joy.
"That was very clever of you," Joy, said Otis.
"I love you Otis Garfield," said Joy.
"And I love you, Joy Mercer," said Otis.
Joy and Otis smiled at each other and then leaned in for a kiss.
A few moments later, Nina and Aaron came home and went to Nina and Amber's room, where the rest of the club was.
"We got them," said Nina.
"You got what?" Asked Amber.
"We got the musical identical twins," said Aaron.
"That's awesome," said Alfie.
"We had to talk their dad into it," said Aaron.
"And how did you do that?" Asked Fabian.
"We pretended to be interns at the Young Talent Conservatory and that we could get a talent scout," said Aaron
"And the father fell for it?" asked Fabian.
"I have music knowledge, so I was able to sell very well," said Aaron.
"Now maybe you can use your music knowledge to figure out what tune we should play," said Patricia.
"Yes, because if we don't have the melody we can't do anything," said Amber.
"I tried looking it up yesterday, but I couldn't find anything,' said Aaron.
"Did you really look as specifically as you could?" Asked Fabian.
"Yeah, I even did a search with all the emotions we should have but that didn't do much," said Aaron.
"Bummer," said Alfie.
"Only got something about the Lady with the Horns," said Aaron.
"Aaron what did you just say?" Asked Fabian.
"That the only thing I could find was about the Lady with the Horns," said Aaron.
"Of course that is it," said Fabian.
"Fabian what is it?" asked Nina.
"I can't believe I didn't think of that before," said Fabian.
"Okay, Fabian will you please tell us and stop leaving us in suspense?" Asked Amber.
"The Lady with the Horns," said Fabian.
"What about it?" Asked Aaron.
"She is the key to finding the melody," said Fabian.
Fabian knew how to get the melody. But who is the Lady with the Horns? And how is she the key?
