HAMERTON
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This is a story about Hamerton, a large school that has a lot of things going on, most of them being illegal and terrorizing. Natalie Bradley, an intelligent and talented girl from Brooklyn joins this school after her friend Caitlin who was allegedly murdered in Hamerton. She is agonized by the news of her friend's tragic death and she has to face up with Hamerton's bloody governance in order to secure the President's badge that has the power to decode a bomb that could cause a large massacre, soon.
She teams up with Trevor Tommy, the ex and most renowned president of Hamerton, Ingrid, and other Class D students against Nicky and her fellow evil seniors.
Previously on Hamerton;
Sunday
Michael
was standing in the balcony of Hamerton Chief building, waiting.
He
had his agreements to meet with a girl from class D. He leaned on the balcony
rail, and looked down on the school campus. There were many students heading to
the stadium which was the largest stage to accommodate all of them for the Christian
mass.
Michael
had his own plans. Although the girl he was going to meet was from ‘the other
side’, he had feelings for her.
Like
Steven, who was recently transferred from class D, Michael was in Class S. The
two classes were not in good terms because class S favored the seniors and they
score ties with class D frequently.
Seeing
a girl from Class D was risky for Michael. More because he was running for
President and class D had their own promising candidate; Natalie Bradley.
Despite that Natalie had not shown up in the school campus, Michael could not
have been too confident that he was the only one standing to replace Trevor as
President of Hamerton.
As he
watched, his cell phone buzzed in his trouser pocket and he took it out,
expecting that it was her message.
It
was.
The
screen read
One message
received: Erin
He
smiled and opened it quickly.
Seen you.
He
turned down to the grounds again, looking for her. He wondered where she could
have seen him from.
He
drew his phone close to call her before a voice interrupted him.
“Well,
well, well. If it isn't Michael Morningstar the school President.”
Michael
lowered his phone to behold a couple of seniors with built bodies and carrying
clubs.
He
folded his face with confusion. “Wait…What is going on here guys?” he asked, tottering
back. The rail supported him.
He
stared at them with popped out eyes as Duane Duncan, leader of the troupe, beat
a baseball club on his own palm.
“What
are those for? Duncan? Duncan?” Michael shouted.
Duane
laughed at him along with the others. “Oh, he even cries like a sissy.”
Michael
gulped with his Adam’s apple rising and falling. He dropped his phone that also
slipped down to the ground.
Duncan
pulled him from the rail and pushed him to the floor.
Michael
screamed in agony.
“Mr.
President. We have orders from our real president, Trevor to teach you a
lesson.” Duncan said to Michael before he hit him.
Present day on Hamerton.
Natalie
wondered around the building and by chance caught sight with officer Cowls
leaving the elevator to the ground floor. He was escorted by a familiar lady
officer and some of the school staff and students.
Natalie
was amazed to see him. Surely Trevor did not send him. Was he really part of
the Interpol? She wondered.
She
followed the troupe to Mr. Gram’s office. She guessed that, they used the Discipline
office for interrogation.
Inside
the office, Corny laid Michael’s cellphone on the desk. It had a shattered
screen and scratched sides.
“Thank
you Samsung Galaxy.” Corny said, rounding the desk to sit on his chair.
“Why?
You’re not sure that it’s working.” Millies said.
“It
should. Wait till the boy brings its charger.”
Millies
rounded her eyes and sighed. “Whatever.” She said and left.
Corny
searched for a socket behind his chair. He wanted to be ready to plug in
Michael’s phone and recharge it.
His
door opened.
“Thank
you Tobias. Just, lay it on the desk.” Corny called.
“Yes.”
Tobias sounded.
Corny
heard footsteps to his desk.
“Officer,
there’s a girl here to see you.” Millies sounded at the door.
Corny
turned back to the office. “Alright, another witness?” he asked.
Tobias
left, passing Millies at the office entrance.
“Yeah
and more.” Millies replied.
Corny
picked a charger from his desk. “How? Are we up for surprises?”
“I don’t
know.” Millies shrugged.
“Okay.
Let her in.”
He turned
with his swing chair and bent his back to connect the phone to the charger.
“There.”
He told the charger and turned around to face the new witness. “Natalie?” he
called to her who sat across the desk.
Natalie
offered a little smile. “We meet again.” She looked around, “in the same
circumstances.”
“I agree.”
He said nodding. “So, are you a witness here?” he asked, carelessly.
She chuckled
“Obviously.”
He took
a pen and a paper. “Okay, tell me how you were related to Erin Shawn or Michael
Morningstar.”
“Erin
was my friend.” She said, looking down with sadness. “We were like triplets,
me, Erin and Ingrid.”
He felt
pity for her. “I am so sorry for losing your friend, Natalie.”
Natalie
looked at him. “Thank you.”
“So,
what happened on the day that she was murdered? I mean, where were you and what
were you doing?”
“I
was on my way here. I just reported.”
He nodded
filling that up.
“Mr.
Corny, do you know where Trevor is?” she asked.
“I was
hoping for you to answer for me that question. We have not communicated for a
while. No one in the school campus has seen him after the interview on
Saturday.”
“Well,
he was kidnapped.”
Corny
furrowed his eyebrows. “By who? Do you know?”
“His
friend. Trevor was also unconscious when he was kidnapped. The guy who took him
finally wants to help.”
“Wait,
wait.” Corny interrupted her. “Someone kidnapped Trevor?”
She nodded.
“Who?
Please give me a name.”
Natalie
was not ready for that yet. Although she was angry and mad at Steven, she never
thought of reporting him to the police. “No. Corny, can I not?”
Corny
frowned. “You’re going to protect that criminal, Natalie? That is not what I would
expect from an intelligent girl like you.”
“Please?
Amh… we only need a permit to leave the school to see Trevor. He is dying.”
Corny
felt like a bucket of water was poured over his head. “What!” he exclaimed. “Can
you kindly tell me what’s going on?”
Natalie
blinked quickly. Maybe she said what she should not have. Maybe he was right
that she was wrong by protecting Steven. He committed a crime by kidnapping
Trevor.
“Natal-”
Corny begun before the cellphone behind him rang. He sighed, shaking his head
with disappointment.
He turned
with his swing chair to Michael’s phone and read the broken screen.
Incoming: mom
Corny
was struck with sympathy. He waited for the call to end and drew the phone to
the desk.
He pressed
some buttons on the phone, recorded some contacts on a piece of paper and
checked Michael’s call logs and messages.
Natalie
glanced at the ill-treated phone. “May I ask to whom that belongs?”
“Michael.”
Corny replied without looking at her. “I am still upset with your habit. If Trevor
knew what you were doing, he wouldn't be pleased.”
Natalie
eyed him with queer. Why did he have to say all that? She was going to save
him.
“Please?
I only need a permit for me and my friends to leave to see Trevor. He needs us.
He needs me.”
Michael
folded his face with confusion, scrutinizing Michael Morningstar’s phone. “Erin.”
He called slowly. “How was she close to Michael before they were both killed?”
“I don’t
think that they were any close. There’s always been a biff between class S and
class D as there is between class D and the senior class.”
Corny
glanced at her. “And they came from the antagonist classes?”
“Erin
and Michael? Yes. Why? What is the problem?”
“I
think that your biff did not exist for these two. Like Romeo and Juliet, they
were going out. That explains why they also died together in the same scene.”
Natalie
was speechless.
what happened next? stay tuned to find out...
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