HAMERTON Chapter 2 episode 5

HAMERTON 2

Thank you God for this opportunity.
Hallo new viewers and Happy and Peaceful elections Tanzania!

Hamerton. A large school offering the finest Education to the students of the state and overseas. Natalie joins this school arriving from Brooklyn and she has grief over her lost friends who were murdered in Hamerton. She teams up with Ingrid and their fellow seniors against the House of Representatives to prevent a bomb blast that could cause a large massacre.

Previously on Hamerton; Natalie and Ingrid utilized the new email that Ester provided them to send Caitlin a message. Natalie tells Caitlin, in her message that, she knows that Caitlin is alive and that Natalie misses her a lot. 

Corny shows Trevor CCTV photos of him and Natalie when they met in the leaders' quarters earlier that day. They agree to leave Hamerton so that, Trevor's father will not find out that, Trevor lied to him and Corny partook in breaching Trevor's security. 

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Back in Canada, Caitlin sat behind her working desk, staring at her laptop’s screen. She was writing a report about her visit in Africa and somewhere along the way, she paused, resting her chin on her palm, drowning into thoughts.

She had been aware of the things happening in Hamerton and consequently with her best friend, Natalie. Until now, she had not thought that it was safe to reach Natalie but, a long time had passed already. Natalie was the school President, Hamerton was calmer than ever and though it already lost seven of its prominent senior students since Caitlin’s arrival, everyone had forgotten the bad things.

Maybe I should contact her. She thought.

Yes. It was a good idea as she told herself. She would only inform Natalie that she is fine and that she misses Natalie a lot. She would send kisses to Natalie’s friends too and to Trevor because, the last that Caitlin heard was that, the two were going out.

Possessed with the excitement, Caitlin opened a new window of a web browser and logged on to her Gmail account. She waited as her emails loaded and begun moving her cursor to the ‘Compose new’ tab on the screen. She then noticed a new email from her usual informer.

She smiled a little hoping that there was good news about Natalie and reclined from composing a new message to open her unread mail.

Hallo Caitlin. How have you been doing? You told me that you were going to visit Africa, how did you find it? Are you back home? Did you have a safe journey friend?

I hope you are great.

Well, I have news for you from Hamerton and your best friend Natalie but, I don’t know if you will like it.

Do you know Ivan? I hope you do. Well, I have heard a lot about him. And of course about the history between you two.

It happens that, Ivan Hook, your boyfriend till you left Brimstone, is going out with your best friend, Natalie!

Sorry for that news but, it is a fact. I also heard that, Ivan was never as interested in you as he was or still is, with Natalie Bradley.

She broke up with Trevor when Ivan shifted to study in Hamerton, to  join her.

I don’t mean to be rude Caitlin or bad mouthing your friend but, I’ll give you my honest opinion, she is bad. She has no morals. She doesn't even care that Ivan was your boyfriend and that you were her best friend.

There are a lot more evil said against her. Oh my friend, it would be hideous to write them.

(Sighing) I wish that you don’t think too much about the evil that Natalie has done to you and focus on your journalism career.

All the best dear. I’ll write to you more if I find out or hear anything.

Yours truly,

Ester.

Caitlin’s eyes tingled with tears after reading the mail. She felt heart broken by the ill news about Natalie.

She could not believe that Natalie could betray her by going out with Ivan. What hurt Caitlin the most was that, from the letter, Natalie broke up from a sincere relationship with Trevor to be with Ivan.

How could they have done such things in Caitlin’s absence? Why?

She tried swallowing a lump of tears that was stuck in her throat, feeling very upset.

Natalie? Really? She asked herself, crying. So, Natalie never thought about her? Was Natalie so bad in school? Why did her habit change?

“Why Natalie? Why?” Caitlin whispered.

But, there was no reply, there was just Ester’s gruesome report, staring at her from the laptop screen.

Caitlin felt wretched, suddenly recalling the times that she was with Natalie and Ivan. Suddenly, meaningless gestures in their encounters, oriented to the anonymous feelings between Natalie and Ivan.

Caitlin frowned at this, feeling very angry at her old friends who, hidden from Caitlin’s knowledge, hardly knew that she was alive.

She sent Ester a short thank you text and told her that she was fine and back in Canada.

Ester did not respond and Caitlin signed out from her Gmail account then locked her computer in rage. 

What will follow next? Stay tuned to find in the next Chapter of Hamerton; SOHOT/ SOHOR??.

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