Trevor rose early the next morning, The House Of Representatives of other schools were leaving and as the President of Hamerton he had to be around to bid them away. When he arrived at the school campus, he found the cleaning activities going on as usual. He thanked Natalie in his heart for the ‘tidy up’ campaign.

The foreigners had gathered just outside the chief building balcony. Trevor met with Julien Pierre the Head boy of St. Ann Marie.

“Sorry, we got stuck here with our luggage. The hallway is all wet and soapy.” Julien explained their situation with French difficulty.

“Forgive me. Has your coach arrived to take you to Heathrow?” Trevor said.

Julien checked his watch. “It should be here any time now.”

“Okay. Let me check how things are going inside and I will be back with you shortly.”

“Oui.” Julien agreed.

Trevor smiled and walked into the building. Another reason that got him up early that Saturday was to see Ingrid. After leaving Mr. Gram’s office, he was caught in another business that kept him from meeting Ingrid again.

He took an elevator to level 18 where class D was. And strolled across the corridor to the threshold of the class. He hardly caught a glimpse inside before Robert met him and held his hands, engaging him out. “Hey… Trevor. What are you doing here?” Robert asked strangely.

“Amh. I’m here to see Ingrid can’t I come-”

“Ha ha… Ingrid. Ingrid is very okay.” He said maneuvering Trevor back to the corridor.

Trevor frowned. “Is everything okay? Can you call her for me? I also got her something.”

Steve came out of the class behind them. Just like Robert, he was holding fake smiles. “Trevor.”

“Please release me Robert.” Trevor murmured to him who was still holding him and turned to Steve. “Steve. How are you feeling? Please fetch Ingrid for me.”

“Ingrid, she went to the bathroom.”

Trevor glanced at Robert and back at Steve. “Sure? I’ll just wait for her then.”

“No, no. Trevor, she might take long. She went with other girls. You know, girls…” Steve lied.

Trevor sighed. “Okay. I’ll just get back to the visitors.”

“Sure.” Robert agreed for all. When Trevor left, he returned to the classroom with Steven. Most of its members were gathered and Natalie seemed to head the meeting holding her phone anxiously.

“Is he gone?” she asked immediately after the boys came back.

“For now.” Steve replied. “Were you able to reach her? Erin?”

“Yes.” Natalie replied with a smile and hope on her face. “But, Ingrid can’t come yet. Erin’s on her way alone. We have to go ahead with the plan on our own.” she paused.

“We got a glass and some CCTV tapes but, we have to return them soon before the security guards find out.” Cheryl, a member of the class said leaning on a table at one end of the room.

“Is Mr. Gram in today?” Steve asked.

“He was but, he left too early.” A boy replied from another corner in the class.

“Someone has to distract security.” Steve said.

“Until Monday? Steve that could be difficult.” Another boy contributed.

“There will be no way of keeping it from Trevor that his cousin is gone.” Cheryl said.

Steve was silent, thinking.

“We have to prevent that from happening. He could leave. He could confront Nicky and we could loose.” Robert said.

“If we all play along, he will not be able to learn anything.” Steve said standing firm in his decision that Trevor must not know.

“Wait!” Robert snapped. “I know a way to keep Trevor and even the security distracted.”

“What?” They asked altogether turning to him.

“But, I’m not sure if it’s still working. Steve, everybody? Do you remember the calculator?”

“The one that we used to control power to support a strike?” a boy asked.

“Did we control power in our first strike?” Cheryl asked.

“No, the other. Last year.” Robert explained.

“Was it even a strike? We were sneaking out to The Forest for fun.” A girl reminded.

“What are you all talking about?” Natalie asked, confused.

“You had not reported here yet Natalie.” Robert replied. “I remember now, but, it led to a strike Felicity.” He said to the other girl and turned to Natalie. “School was boring and, we didn’t want to follow normal procedures to go camping. So, we stole something from the Mother CPU in level 16 and inserted it in a calculator. We used it to control power and caused fluctuations that kept the school occupied for a while and forget about our whereabouts every night. It led to a strike when the fluctuations brought water problems.” He turned to the class again. “So, who remained with the calculator?”

“Erin.” Steve replied and turned to Natalie. “Please call her and give me to talk to her.”

“Okay.” Natalie replied and drew to a corner.

“Thank you for bringing back the idea Robert.” Steve thanked.

“Let’s just hope that it works.” Robert replied.

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did it? stay tuned to find out..