While being suspended Gareth and Sarah had met up with Anta and invited Shelly out to explain their side of the story. Shelly was surprised to hear what had happened but agreed to meet up with them.
She met the group in the evening after college at a pub and they told her that Hana had been lying about them but Shelly was not too sure as she had not thought that Hana would be the type to make things up.
'The problem is Hana is obsessed with the the Lion and is trying to turn people against them,' said Sarah 'She was offended by us going out to protest,'
'Okay,' explained Shelly 'but why where you suspended?'
'Well I think it is due to Jean showing bias towards us,' said Gareth.
'What bias?' Shelly asked.
'Well Jean is against the Messiah so she would have taken Hana's side,'
Shelly was still not convinced but the group managed to steer the conversation away from the discussion about Hana but they were not planning on staying out late.
'I still have my placement tomorrow,' said Gareth 'I will have to head home soon,'
'So do I,' said Anta 'I have some work to do tomorrow for some people,'
The group left the pub and walked towards the bus stop but had noticed outside of a house near the pub that someone had put up a sign saying 'Vote for the Lion'
'Oh, look, more Lions!' said Anta.
'Why are people still supporting them?' said Sarah.
Anta then ran up to the sign and punched it and it fell over. Both Sarah and Gareth laughed by Shelly was not impressed.
'What was the point of that?' she asked.
'Only a bit of fun,' laughed Anta.
'You can't just punch someone's sign over though,' said Shelly.
'They are only Lion supporters,' said Sarah.
'Just showing them that they are not welcoming here,' laughed Anta.
'We should do it to another one if we see anymore,' said Sarah.
'I don't think it is funny though,' said Shelly 'maybe Hana was right all along?'
'Why would you believe her?' snapped Anta.
'Well you can't just go around and punch someone's sign just because you don't have the same view as them,' said Shelly.
'So you feel sorry for them?' argued Anta 'you should feel sorry for the people who are effected by all the cuts that they make to social care,'
'I just think that there is a better way to go about things,' explained Shelly.
'There is no better way,' said Sarah 'we have to get our message across,'
'By punching a sign?' replied Shelly 'that is not a good way of getting a message across
'You had better not be another Hana,' added Anta 'we are radicals and we won't play nice towards any of them,'
'Well maybe I don't want to be a radical,' said Shelly.
'Well if not then off you go,' replied Anta 'you are clearly not up for it!'
'Look I don't think that Anta meant it that way,' said Gareth.
'It must be true what Hana said,' replied Shelly as Gareth tried to keep up with her..
'Well, I don't know,' said Gareth 'but I will walk you home if you want?'
'I would rather go home by myself, thanks,' said Shelly.
'No I will walk you home,' demanded Gareth 'it is not safe out,'
'I will feel much safer by myself than to be around people like Anta,' argued Shelly 'all you lot have done is insult Hana all evening and I am bored of hearing about it,'
'Well it wasn't me saying that,' said Gareth.
'No, you just trying to pretending that it is not happening,' said Shelly 'you clearly enjoy seeing them do it,'
'Look, I am not like them,' protested Gareth 'I cannot stop them from have their views,'
'The same views that you support?' replied Shelly.
'Well I have views but I respect other people's views,' explained Gareth 'look I will still walk you home,'
'No, I am fine, thanks,' snapped Shelly.
'But I don't want anything bad to happen to you,' exclaimed Gareth.
'Why do you care so much?' asked Shelly.
'Well I care about you,' replied Gareth.
'Well I am friends with Hana so would you still care about me then?' added Shelly.
'Well I don't see a problem with that,' said Gareth 'I don't mind Hana anyway it is only a few disagreements,'
'Just like you laughed when the others called her weird earlier?'
Gareth went quiet for a moment and then grabbed Shelly's arm.
'Look, let's not fall out about this, okay?' he said but Shelly pulled her arm away.
'What are you doing?' she asked feeling nervous.
'Let's not fall out,' said Gareth 'we get along well,'
'You are creeping me out,' said Shelly 'I want to go home by myself,'
'Don't be like that!' exclaimed Gareth as he grabbed Shelly's arm again.
'Seriously, go away!' argued Shelly as she pushed him away and walked off leaving Gareth feeling dejected.
@king_of_simcity7 Wow. I enjoyed reading all those exchanges of words. (Nice drama! )
People do so much worse than kicking down signs of candidates from another party here. They'll pee on them, burn them, and do any other horrible thing they can think of to them.
Anta is very toxic. I don't like him at all and he honestly scares me...
I'm very proud of Shelly; for sticking up for Hana, but also for thinking rationally.
Gareth says he respects Hana's views? Umm...I didn't see that at all earlier. (You're full of it, buddy! Just saying what you want to impress the girl you like! )
Then he starts grabbing Shelly's arm? I was getting nervous like he was gonna get a little violent with her or something since she didn't want him walking her home. I'm glad he didn't.
Guess he's gonna have to prove all those good things he said about himself to her if he wants to have any chance with her...
@king_of_simcity7 I'm happy to see that Shelly did not buy Anta's explanations nor his radical thoughts.
I'm glad she saw through Gareth's explanations too. He laughed and joked around and didn't try to stop the others from lying about Hana.
I was a bit worried when he grabbed her but glad she got away on her own.
Lots of drama going on!
@emorrill and @bekkasan Thanks for the feedback There is an election on again at the moment so some of that would influence the story. It will be nasty here and i am busy keeping an eye on things but i will still make time for the story when I can
The next day at college Shelly told some of her group about the previous night and they were concerned. During the break she got a text from Gareth apologising to her but she chose to ignore it.
'I think that you need to keep away from Gareth,' said Stacy 'I wouldn't text him back,'
'I always thought that he was alright,' said Shelly 'but I now he seems to be just like the others,'
As she did not reply to Gareth he eventually gave in and rang her during the afternoon break. He knew that she would be on her break so he decided to chance it but she did not pick up so he tried again a couple of times and then texted her asking her to contact him. He would soon end up sending her a few texts and would ring her a few more times throughout the day. It was now becoming apparent that he was becoming obsessed with her.
@king_of_simcity7 Oh my...and here I was trying to give Gareth the benefit of the doubt, but...if he's pestering her through texts and phone calls, that's not good...
Over the next few days Shelly was still having problems with Gareth and was starting to feel creeped out by him. There was a new story going around that some of the Messiah's supporters had been stealing voting cards belonging to students when they had gone home. This had become a concern and Hana and Stacy wanted to investigate it.
'Do you think that Gareth would know anything about it?' Hana asked Shelly while they were outside the college.
'I don't know,' said Shelly 'it wouldn't surprise me though,'
Also waiting with them was Courtney, Ben, Brett and Darwin.
'Maybe you could trick him in into getting his email password?' suggested Brett 'if he is obsessed with you then you might be able to trick him into doing it.
'Maybe you could agree to meet up with him and get him drunk?' said Ben 'You could just pretend that you want to meet him and then avoid him again afterwards?'
'I would rather not meet him by myself though,' said Shelly. She knew that the guys were joking but Brett had another idea.
'I could come with you if you want?' he suggested 'Tell him that you want to meet him with his group but then bring me along. You could pretend that I am interested in their movement or something?'
'That might be a good idea actually,' agreed Shelly.
Just then Taz walked past and tried to talk to Courtney again.
'So you doing much this weekend?' he asked Courtney.
'Not sure yet,' replied Courtney knowing that the others in the group where not sure about him but Taz had been pushing her to meet up with him. He was making out that he was interested in her and she was still confused by him.
'I will be in town,' said Taz 'feel free to meet up with me if you want?'
He walked off but Courtney felt tempted to meet him. Was he actually really interested in her?
'What did he want?' Ben asked her feeling disappointed that Taz would still appear all the time.
'He wants to meet me again,' said Courtney 'but I am meeting up with you lot this weekend,'
'Are you still coming round mine on Saturday?' asked Stacy 'I have a free house,'
'Yes I am not going to cancel on you,' said Courtney.
Ben felt slightly relived as he was also invited to the party and had hoped to get closer to Courtney but Taz was clearly becoming a problem.
Meanwhile Hana, Shelly and Brett had formed a plan. Both Shelly and Brett where going to meet Gareth and get him drunk and then try to get his Email address. Gareth had been inviting Shelly to Sarah's place with the rest of his group on Friday and the idea was to try and get him drunk and then see if they could get his Email password. It was a daring plan but they had hoped to uncover a few truths about his own group's suspicious past.
On Friday Shelly finally had her plan ready. She reluctantly agreed to meet with Gareth but would have Brett with her. Gareth was not happy with the idea of Brett coming but as Shelly had spoken to Sarah and told him that Brett was interested in joining them then Sarah agreed for him to come over.
The evening would be spent drinking but Brett and Shelly had only brought a few alcoholic drinks with them and had also brought non alcoholic versions. Thais way it would appear that they were taking part in the party but would not be as drunk as the others. Shelly had also reminded Gareth to bring his laptop with him as she wanted to download some music for him. Gareth agreed to this thinking that Shelly was interested in him. She felt guilty for doing this but by now she was so repulsed by Gareth that she did not have much sympathy for him.
At first Gareth thought that he would be able to make up with Shelly but when he realised that she was with Brett he was not happy.
'Why is he here?' Gareth asked Sarah quietly while Brett and Shelly put their drinks in the fridge.
'Brett is interested in coming over to our side,' replied Sarah.
Gareth assumed that Brett was only there to try and make a move on Shelly and he had no idea of what their plan was. Brett actually managed to get along with the group well and managed to fake being interested in their movement. He managed to pretend that he hated the Lion and even Anta fell for it. Also at the party was Nick and Michelle and they did not know about what the group had done to Hana but Michelle was also starting to feel suspicious of them while Nick was starting to get close with Michelle and had hoped that maybe something could happen between them now that he was getting over Humara.
After a while Shelly asked Gareth if she could use his laptop and had brought some CDs to put on his laptop and Gareth was pleased.
'I still want us to be able to talk about things,' said Gareth.
'We will do, don't worry,' replied Shelly 'I just want to have a few more drinks fist though,'
As planned Shelly managed to get on Gareth's laptop and managed to log into his Email and have a quick look to see if she could find anything interesting. There was a few messages that bothered her. One was from a girl named Ellie who appeared to be his ex girlfriend. Shelly did not have time to read through it so she forwarded the Email to her own account and then found a message from Tim who was Gareth's mentor at his placement.
'Hi, Gareth, I am really sorry that you got suspended at college. It is clear that the college is pandering to the right as usual but do not give up. You have our full support 100% and we trust you.
I am giving you the details to our secret account where we share messages. Be careful with this password as we do not want it to fall into the wrong hands but as you our one of our greatest campaigners I think that it is time that we let you into our circle,'
The message included an Email account and a password. Shelly made a note of the Email and password on her phone and then sent a text to Brett.
'I have got an account and a password. We will have to let Hana know,'
Brett sent her a reply.
'What do we do now then?' he asked.
'We will have to make an excuse and leave,' replied Shelly.
Leaving was not going to be too easy. Neither Brett or Shelly wanted to create suspicion by leaving early and Shelly wanted to get out of talking to Gareth. The rest of the group continued to drink and Brett and Shelly were now bored of them. They soon started slagging off other people which helped create an excuse to leave.
'So, Shelly, please tell me that you don't still talk to that Hana girl,' jeered Anta.
'She is alright,' replied Shelly awkwardly.
'But you spoke to her the other day?' asked Sarah.
'I talk to a few others in the group,' replied Shelly 'I am mostly close to Courtney though,'
'You should get Courtney to join us sometime,' suggested Sarah 'she seems like a nice girl,'
'How come Darwin does not come with us anymore?' asked Gareth.
'I saw him talking to Hana,' said Sarah 'I don't trust him,'
'I won't trust anyone who hangs out with that Tory lover,' added Anta.
'I saw Courtney talking to that Taz guy the other day,' said Sarah 'how does she know him?'
'He is her ex boyfriend,' replied Shelly.
Nick felt awkward as he did not like Taz's name being brought up but most of the group knew of him. Brett knew that Ben had been concerned over Taz and decided to try and get more information out of him.
'Was he not with Humara?' Brett asked.
'Yes he was,' said Nick 'I was seeing her at the time but he tried to take her off of me,'
Nick explained how Humara had ignored him at a party and how she ended up woohooing with Taz that night.
'In a way it was weird as originally Humara was seeing Simon but she found him too clingy and I started seeing her,' said Nick 'It was good for a while but then Taz came along and she ditch me for him. I feel sorry for anyone who gets involved with either of them,'
'Do you feel bad for it though?' asked Brett 'considering that Simon was with her first?'
'Well Simon was not with her,' said Nick 'that just met up a few times but he is with Tammy now,'
'Tammy is weird,' said Sarah 'she seems like a nice girl but I know her ex boyfriend Laurence and he said that she was clingy as well,'
'Tammy does seem alright though,' said Michelle.
'Yeah she seems alright but she seems a bit odd a bit like Megan,'
'You have some weird people on your course,' laughed Anta 'no offense though!'
'That is why you need to stick with us,' said Gareth 'the group is divided and you need to be careful of hanging around with Hana. She is poison as far as I am concerned,'
Little did anyone else know that Brett had been filming the group's conversation and had been all evening. He then got another text from Shelly saying that she wanted to go home.
'My mum has text me,' said Shelly 'she wants me home,'
'Do you always do what your mum wants?' asked Anta.
'Well I do have to be up early with her tomorrow,' said Shelly.
'You don't want to stay for a while?' asked Gareth.
'I can't, sorry,' replied Shelly.
'Do you still want me to walk you home?' asked Brett.
'Yes, are you okay leaving now?' replied Shelly.
'Well it is getting late and I have had a good evening,' replied Brett.
'Been good having you round,' Sarah said to him 'but think about the company that you keep,'
'Oh, don't worry about that lot,' joked Brett 'I am not on your course anyway so I don't have to see them that often,'
'Do you want us to talk?' Gareth asked Shelly while no one else heard.
'We have left it too late,' said Shelly.
'Just five minutes?' asked Gareth.
Brett had overheard and nodded towards her to suggest that they talk.
'Okay, I need to get something from the kitchen,' agreed Shelly.
Once they left the room Brett went and stood outside the kitchen door and waited a moment.
'Look, I really wanted us to spend the night together,' said Gareth drunkenly while the kitchen door was closed.
'I don't know why you brought Brett with you and it has really upset me,'
'What is wrong with him?' Shelly asked him.
'He is following you around all the time and it is weird,' said Gareth.
'You cannot tell me who I can and cannot talk to,' said Shelly.
'But you came here to see me?' replied Gareth.
'I came here to see Sarah,' said Shelly 'and she let me bring Brett with me,'
'Do you like him?' asked Gareth.
'What does that mean?' replied Shelly.
'I mean do you have feelings for him?'
'Why are you asking me this?' asked Shelly now regretting talking to Gareth.
'I just care about you, that is all,' said Gareth.
'Don't do this again,' sighed Shelly,'
'Come on, you have been fine with me the last few days, I really care about you,' said Gareth as he touched her arm again.
@king_of_simcity7 Catching up on your story.
Gareth is definitely showing signs of obsession! I'm glad she is not answering him.
I'm glad Shelly didn't want to meet up with Gareth on her own! The plan seems a bit risky!
Taz go away! Courtney don't give in! He's poison!
Brett seems to be a pretty good actor. Glad he is sticking close to Shelly though.
Good info that Shelly got.
Wow...they sure don't like Hana! That's ok, she doesn't like them either.
Doesn't look like Shelly is falling for Gareth's lines. Good for her.
He sure is whiny about Brett.
Enjoyed the updates!
That WAS some good info Shelly was able to dig up. That would've had me going, "Woooooow."
I feel bad for Hana that most of them don't like her just because she has different political views. (I see it too much in the real world). It's like, when did we forget that people have feelings??
Anta is just awful & I don't like him!
Gareth really needs to back off. I almost hope he finds out Shelly got into his computer so he'll be mad at her and quit being obsessed with her and leave her alone.
Then again that can come with problems too.
'Why are you touching me again?' exclaimed Shelly.
Outside Brett then realised that it was time to come in the kitchen so he opened the door.
'Just getting something from the fridge,' said Brett casually 'are we ready to go?'
'Yes I am ready,'
'Can you give us another moment, please?' snapped Gareth.
'I cannot wait all night,' said Brett.
'I am ready to leave now,' added Shelly.
'Seriously, why are you barging in here?' Gareth argued with Brett.
'Is there a problem?' replied Brett.
'Well I was talking to Shelly,' replied Gareth smugly.
'Not anymore,' replied Shelly 'I am going now,'
'See you later!' Brett said to Gareth as they both walked out of the kitchen.
'Shelly, wait, I haven't finished yet!' pleased Gareth as he went after her.
'What are you doing?' exclaimed Shelly as Sarah came into the hall way.
'What is going on?' asked Sarah.
'We are trying to leave and he is being weird,' said Shelly.
'Come on Gareth, Shelly has to go home,' said Sarah not noticing that there was a problem.
'Yeah, we are off now,' added Brett 'see you later!'
Shelly and Brett managed to leave and quickly walked off.
'Well that went a bit weird,' said Brett.
'It is alright,' said Shelly 'it just confirms what he was like the other week,'
'Did he try touching you?' Brett asked her.
'Yes, it was creepy,' replied Shelly 'I am so glad that you came in when you did,'
'I was outside anyway,' said Brett.
'I knew that you would have been,' smiled Shelly.
'Well we got an Email and a password as well,' said Brett.
'I will give it to Hana to investigate,' replied Shelly.
'I also got a lot of footage of them talking,' said Brett.
'Really?' asked Shelly.
'Just in case,' smiled Brett.
'You are quite clever!' said Shelly.
'Thanks,' said Brett.
Once they reached Shelly's house she thanked him again from saving her from Gareth and hugged him.
'I thought that you do not like people touching you?' joked Brett.
'I don't mind,' replied Shelly 'at least you are not a creep!'
Brett felt satisfied. It seemed that the dull and boring guy had finally one over the beautiful girl instead of the arrogant snob that was Gareth.
Once they reached Shelly's house she thanked him again from saving her from Gareth and hugged him.
'I thought that you do not like people touching you?' joked Brett.
'I don't mind,' replied Shelly 'at least you are not a creep!'
Brett felt satisfied. It seemed that the dull and boring guy had finally one over the beautiful girl instead of the arrogant snob that was Gareth.
^This is so cute.
I was just gonna say Brett should've tenderly kissed her in that moment. Hee hee. You know me...
The next day Shelly contacted Hana and told her about her findings and Hana decided to do some investigating. Her plan was to log into the secret Email in the public library so if anything happened it would not be traced to her laptop. She was excited about what she would find and found a free computer at the library and logged in. What she saw shocked her.
'We will need to encourage students to register to vote. Most of them will be going home so we will need to take their polling cards and vote for the Messiah,'
'How will we do that?'
'Quite easy, I know someone who can get us into the University halls and the polling cards will be left in pigeon holes,'
'Will it work though?'
'I might do as we nearly managed to swing it before and this time we have an even bigger army of us,'
'Let's do this then. But keep it quiet,'
As the messages went on things became even more sinister.
'We have managed to bribe the journalist. I met up with them yesterday. They are on our side but they need to convince some more of their colleagues but we can get onto their show and we will have to push hard to get our voices heard,'
'We have found the address of that candidate and will launch a surprise protest outside their house. The journalists have been paid off so will keep some bits quiet if it gets out of hand. I hope that their children are not home like when it happened at the other address the other week. We just about managed to get away with that one,'
'I know someone who managed to follow that journalist home the other night. It was a shame that cameras where around but they came close to getting at them,'
The messages quickly became more and more intense and Hana felt nervous. This organisation was clearly acting illegally. Hana decided to ring Stacy to let her know what she thought and then Stacy contacted a few other people while Hana spoke to Shelly. Hana printed off everything and then headed back home. There was the party later that night and they didn't want to spoil it but it was clear that there was something sinister going on.
Your first picture doesn't show, just the code and you have two 'plum' words in the code so it is being censored by the forums. Noticed that on the other thread too.
I hope that Hana is careful who she talks with. Would hate for something to happen to her. I hope someone goes to the authorities.
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While being suspended Gareth and Sarah had met up with Anta and invited Shelly out to explain their side of the story. Shelly was surprised to hear what had happened but agreed to meet up with them.
She met the group in the evening after college at a pub and they told her that Hana had been lying about them but Shelly was not too sure as she had not thought that Hana would be the type to make things up.
'The problem is Hana is obsessed with the the Lion and is trying to turn people against them,' said Sarah 'She was offended by us going out to protest,'
'Okay,' explained Shelly 'but why where you suspended?'
'Well I think it is due to Jean showing bias towards us,' said Gareth.
'What bias?' Shelly asked.
'Well Jean is against the Messiah so she would have taken Hana's side,'
Shelly was still not convinced but the group managed to steer the conversation away from the discussion about Hana but they were not planning on staying out late.
'I still have my placement tomorrow,' said Gareth 'I will have to head home soon,'
'So do I,' said Anta 'I have some work to do tomorrow for some people,'
The group left the pub and walked towards the bus stop but had noticed outside of a house near the pub that someone had put up a sign saying 'Vote for the Lion'
'Oh, look, more Lions!' said Anta.
'Why are people still supporting them?' said Sarah.
Anta then ran up to the sign and punched it and it fell over. Both Sarah and Gareth laughed by Shelly was not impressed.
'What was the point of that?' she asked.
'Only a bit of fun,' laughed Anta.
'You can't just punch someone's sign over though,' said Shelly.
'They are only Lion supporters,' said Sarah.
'Just showing them that they are not welcoming here,' laughed Anta.
'We should do it to another one if we see anymore,' said Sarah.
'I don't think it is funny though,' said Shelly 'maybe Hana was right all along?'
'Why would you believe her?' snapped Anta.
'Well you can't just go around and punch someone's sign just because you don't have the same view as them,' said Shelly.
'So you feel sorry for them?' argued Anta 'you should feel sorry for the people who are effected by all the cuts that they make to social care,'
'I just think that there is a better way to go about things,' explained Shelly.
'There is no better way,' said Sarah 'we have to get our message across,'
'By punching a sign?' replied Shelly 'that is not a good way of getting a message across
'You had better not be another Hana,' added Anta 'we are radicals and we won't play nice towards any of them,'
'Well maybe I don't want to be a radical,' said Shelly.
'Well if not then off you go,' replied Anta 'you are clearly not up for it!'
Shelly walked off and Gareth went after her.
'Look I don't think that Anta meant it that way,' said Gareth.
'It must be true what Hana said,' replied Shelly as Gareth tried to keep up with her..
'Well, I don't know,' said Gareth 'but I will walk you home if you want?'
'I would rather go home by myself, thanks,' said Shelly.
'No I will walk you home,' demanded Gareth 'it is not safe out,'
'I will feel much safer by myself than to be around people like Anta,' argued Shelly 'all you lot have done is insult Hana all evening and I am bored of hearing about it,'
'Well it wasn't me saying that,' said Gareth.
'No, you just trying to pretending that it is not happening,' said Shelly 'you clearly enjoy seeing them do it,'
'Look, I am not like them,' protested Gareth 'I cannot stop them from have their views,'
'The same views that you support?' replied Shelly.
'Well I have views but I respect other people's views,' explained Gareth 'look I will still walk you home,'
'No, I am fine, thanks,' snapped Shelly.
'But I don't want anything bad to happen to you,' exclaimed Gareth.
'Why do you care so much?' asked Shelly.
'Well I care about you,' replied Gareth.
'Well I am friends with Hana so would you still care about me then?' added Shelly.
'Well I don't see a problem with that,' said Gareth 'I don't mind Hana anyway it is only a few disagreements,'
'Just like you laughed when the others called her weird earlier?'
Gareth went quiet for a moment and then grabbed Shelly's arm.
'Look, let's not fall out about this, okay?' he said but Shelly pulled her arm away.
'What are you doing?' she asked feeling nervous.
'Let's not fall out,' said Gareth 'we get along well,'
'You are creeping me out,' said Shelly 'I want to go home by myself,'
'Don't be like that!' exclaimed Gareth as he grabbed Shelly's arm again.
'Seriously, go away!' argued Shelly as she pushed him away and walked off leaving Gareth feeling dejected.
People do so much worse than kicking down signs of candidates from another party here. They'll pee on them, burn them, and do any other horrible thing they can think of to them.
Anta is very toxic. I don't like him at all and he honestly scares me...
I'm very proud of Shelly; for sticking up for Hana, but also for thinking rationally.
Gareth says he respects Hana's views? Umm...I didn't see that at all earlier. (You're full of it, buddy!
Then he starts grabbing Shelly's arm?
Guess he's gonna have to prove all those good things he said about himself to her if he wants to have any chance with her...
Great updates! 👍
@king_of_simcity7 I'm happy to see that Shelly did not buy Anta's explanations nor his radical thoughts.
I'm glad she saw through Gareth's explanations too. He laughed and joked around and didn't try to stop the others from lying about Hana.
I was a bit worried when he grabbed her but glad she got away on her own.
Lots of drama going on!
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
There will be more from Gareth as well!
The next day at college Shelly told some of her group about the previous night and they were concerned. During the break she got a text from Gareth apologising to her but she chose to ignore it.
'I think that you need to keep away from Gareth,' said Stacy 'I wouldn't text him back,'
'I always thought that he was alright,' said Shelly 'but I now he seems to be just like the others,'
As she did not reply to Gareth he eventually gave in and rang her during the afternoon break. He knew that she would be on her break so he decided to chance it but she did not pick up so he tried again a couple of times and then texted her asking her to contact him. He would soon end up sending her a few texts and would ring her a few more times throughout the day. It was now becoming apparent that he was becoming obsessed with her.
Over the next few days Shelly was still having problems with Gareth and was starting to feel creeped out by him. There was a new story going around that some of the Messiah's supporters had been stealing voting cards belonging to students when they had gone home. This had become a concern and Hana and Stacy wanted to investigate it.
'Do you think that Gareth would know anything about it?' Hana asked Shelly while they were outside the college.
'I don't know,' said Shelly 'it wouldn't surprise me though,'
Also waiting with them was Courtney, Ben, Brett and Darwin.
'Maybe you could trick him in into getting his email password?' suggested Brett 'if he is obsessed with you then you might be able to trick him into doing it.
'Maybe you could agree to meet up with him and get him drunk?' said Ben 'You could just pretend that you want to meet him and then avoid him again afterwards?'
'I would rather not meet him by myself though,' said Shelly. She knew that the guys were joking but Brett had another idea.
'I could come with you if you want?' he suggested 'Tell him that you want to meet him with his group but then bring me along. You could pretend that I am interested in their movement or something?'
'That might be a good idea actually,' agreed Shelly.
Just then Taz walked past and tried to talk to Courtney again.
'So you doing much this weekend?' he asked Courtney.
'Not sure yet,' replied Courtney knowing that the others in the group where not sure about him but Taz had been pushing her to meet up with him. He was making out that he was interested in her and she was still confused by him.
'I will be in town,' said Taz 'feel free to meet up with me if you want?'
He walked off but Courtney felt tempted to meet him. Was he actually really interested in her?
'What did he want?' Ben asked her feeling disappointed that Taz would still appear all the time.
'He wants to meet me again,' said Courtney 'but I am meeting up with you lot this weekend,'
'Are you still coming round mine on Saturday?' asked Stacy 'I have a free house,'
'Yes I am not going to cancel on you,' said Courtney.
Ben felt slightly relived as he was also invited to the party and had hoped to get closer to Courtney but Taz was clearly becoming a problem.
Meanwhile Hana, Shelly and Brett had formed a plan. Both Shelly and Brett where going to meet Gareth and get him drunk and then try to get his Email address. Gareth had been inviting Shelly to Sarah's place with the rest of his group on Friday and the idea was to try and get him drunk and then see if they could get his Email password. It was a daring plan but they had hoped to uncover a few truths about his own group's suspicious past.
On Friday Shelly finally had her plan ready. She reluctantly agreed to meet with Gareth but would have Brett with her. Gareth was not happy with the idea of Brett coming but as Shelly had spoken to Sarah and told him that Brett was interested in joining them then Sarah agreed for him to come over.
The evening would be spent drinking but Brett and Shelly had only brought a few alcoholic drinks with them and had also brought non alcoholic versions. Thais way it would appear that they were taking part in the party but would not be as drunk as the others. Shelly had also reminded Gareth to bring his laptop with him as she wanted to download some music for him. Gareth agreed to this thinking that Shelly was interested in him. She felt guilty for doing this but by now she was so repulsed by Gareth that she did not have much sympathy for him.
At first Gareth thought that he would be able to make up with Shelly but when he realised that she was with Brett he was not happy.
'Why is he here?' Gareth asked Sarah quietly while Brett and Shelly put their drinks in the fridge.
'Brett is interested in coming over to our side,' replied Sarah.
Gareth assumed that Brett was only there to try and make a move on Shelly and he had no idea of what their plan was. Brett actually managed to get along with the group well and managed to fake being interested in their movement. He managed to pretend that he hated the Lion and even Anta fell for it. Also at the party was Nick and Michelle and they did not know about what the group had done to Hana but Michelle was also starting to feel suspicious of them while Nick was starting to get close with Michelle and had hoped that maybe something could happen between them now that he was getting over Humara.
After a while Shelly asked Gareth if she could use his laptop and had brought some CDs to put on his laptop and Gareth was pleased.
'I still want us to be able to talk about things,' said Gareth.
'We will do, don't worry,' replied Shelly 'I just want to have a few more drinks fist though,'
But I can't help worrying that it might cause more harm than good...
^Yup. Just as I feared...
Did you mean to write "The Lion" instead in the last paragraph?
As planned Shelly managed to get on Gareth's laptop and managed to log into his Email and have a quick look to see if she could find anything interesting. There was a few messages that bothered her. One was from a girl named Ellie who appeared to be his ex girlfriend. Shelly did not have time to read through it so she forwarded the Email to her own account and then found a message from Tim who was Gareth's mentor at his placement.
'Hi, Gareth, I am really sorry that you got suspended at college. It is clear that the college is pandering to the right as usual but do not give up. You have our full support 100% and we trust you.
I am giving you the details to our secret account where we share messages. Be careful with this password as we do not want it to fall into the wrong hands but as you our one of our greatest campaigners I think that it is time that we let you into our circle,'
The message included an Email account and a password. Shelly made a note of the Email and password on her phone and then sent a text to Brett.
'I have got an account and a password. We will have to let Hana know,'
Brett sent her a reply.
'What do we do now then?' he asked.
'We will have to make an excuse and leave,' replied Shelly.
Leaving was not going to be too easy. Neither Brett or Shelly wanted to create suspicion by leaving early and Shelly wanted to get out of talking to Gareth. The rest of the group continued to drink and Brett and Shelly were now bored of them. They soon started slagging off other people which helped create an excuse to leave.
'So, Shelly, please tell me that you don't still talk to that Hana girl,' jeered Anta.
'She is alright,' replied Shelly awkwardly.
'But you spoke to her the other day?' asked Sarah.
'I talk to a few others in the group,' replied Shelly 'I am mostly close to Courtney though,'
'You should get Courtney to join us sometime,' suggested Sarah 'she seems like a nice girl,'
'How come Darwin does not come with us anymore?' asked Gareth.
'I saw him talking to Hana,' said Sarah 'I don't trust him,'
'I won't trust anyone who hangs out with that Tory lover,' added Anta.
'I saw Courtney talking to that Taz guy the other day,' said Sarah 'how does she know him?'
'He is her ex boyfriend,' replied Shelly.
Nick felt awkward as he did not like Taz's name being brought up but most of the group knew of him. Brett knew that Ben had been concerned over Taz and decided to try and get more information out of him.
'Was he not with Humara?' Brett asked.
'Yes he was,' said Nick 'I was seeing her at the time but he tried to take her off of me,'
Nick explained how Humara had ignored him at a party and how she ended up woohooing with Taz that night.
'In a way it was weird as originally Humara was seeing Simon but she found him too clingy and I started seeing her,' said Nick 'It was good for a while but then Taz came along and she ditch me for him. I feel sorry for anyone who gets involved with either of them,'
'Do you feel bad for it though?' asked Brett 'considering that Simon was with her first?'
'Well Simon was not with her,' said Nick 'that just met up a few times but he is with Tammy now,'
'Tammy is weird,' said Sarah 'she seems like a nice girl but I know her ex boyfriend Laurence and he said that she was clingy as well,'
'Tammy does seem alright though,' said Michelle.
'Yeah she seems alright but she seems a bit odd a bit like Megan,'
'You have some weird people on your course,' laughed Anta 'no offense though!'
'That is why you need to stick with us,' said Gareth 'the group is divided and you need to be careful of hanging around with Hana. She is poison as far as I am concerned,'
Little did anyone else know that Brett had been filming the group's conversation and had been all evening. He then got another text from Shelly saying that she wanted to go home.
'My mum has text me,' said Shelly 'she wants me home,'
'Do you always do what your mum wants?' asked Anta.
'Well I do have to be up early with her tomorrow,' said Shelly.
'You don't want to stay for a while?' asked Gareth.
'I can't, sorry,' replied Shelly.
'Do you still want me to walk you home?' asked Brett.
'Yes, are you okay leaving now?' replied Shelly.
'Well it is getting late and I have had a good evening,' replied Brett.
'Been good having you round,' Sarah said to him 'but think about the company that you keep,'
'Oh, don't worry about that lot,' joked Brett 'I am not on your course anyway so I don't have to see them that often,'
'Do you want us to talk?' Gareth asked Shelly while no one else heard.
'We have left it too late,' said Shelly.
'Just five minutes?' asked Gareth.
Brett had overheard and nodded towards her to suggest that they talk.
'Okay, I need to get something from the kitchen,' agreed Shelly.
Once they left the room Brett went and stood outside the kitchen door and waited a moment.
'Look, I really wanted us to spend the night together,' said Gareth drunkenly while the kitchen door was closed.
'I don't know why you brought Brett with you and it has really upset me,'
'What is wrong with him?' Shelly asked him.
'He is following you around all the time and it is weird,' said Gareth.
'You cannot tell me who I can and cannot talk to,' said Shelly.
'But you came here to see me?' replied Gareth.
'I came here to see Sarah,' said Shelly 'and she let me bring Brett with me,'
'Do you like him?' asked Gareth.
'What does that mean?' replied Shelly.
'I mean do you have feelings for him?'
'Why are you asking me this?' asked Shelly now regretting talking to Gareth.
'I just care about you, that is all,' said Gareth.
'Don't do this again,' sighed Shelly,'
'Come on, you have been fine with me the last few days, I really care about you,' said Gareth as he touched her arm again.
@king_of_simcity7 Catching up on your story.
Gareth is definitely showing signs of obsession! I'm glad she is not answering him.
I'm glad Shelly didn't want to meet up with Gareth on her own! The plan seems a bit risky!
Taz go away!
Brett seems to be a pretty good actor. Glad he is sticking close to Shelly though.
Good info that Shelly got.
Wow...they sure don't like Hana! That's ok, she doesn't like them either.
Doesn't look like Shelly is falling for Gareth's lines. Good for her.
He sure is whiny about Brett.
Enjoyed the updates!
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
I feel bad for Hana that most of them don't like her just because she has different political views.
Anta is just awful & I don't like him!
Gareth really needs to back off. I almost hope he finds out Shelly got into his computer so he'll be mad at her and quit being obsessed with her and leave her alone.
Then again that can come with problems too.
I'm curious to see where this goes @king_of_simcity7
'Why are you touching me again?' exclaimed Shelly.
Outside Brett then realised that it was time to come in the kitchen so he opened the door.
'Just getting something from the fridge,' said Brett casually 'are we ready to go?'
'Yes I am ready,'
'Can you give us another moment, please?' snapped Gareth.
'I cannot wait all night,' said Brett.
'I am ready to leave now,' added Shelly.
'Seriously, why are you barging in here?' Gareth argued with Brett.
'Is there a problem?' replied Brett.
'Well I was talking to Shelly,' replied Gareth smugly.
'Not anymore,' replied Shelly 'I am going now,'
'See you later!' Brett said to Gareth as they both walked out of the kitchen.
'Shelly, wait, I haven't finished yet!' pleased Gareth as he went after her.
'What are you doing?' exclaimed Shelly as Sarah came into the hall way.
'What is going on?' asked Sarah.
'We are trying to leave and he is being weird,' said Shelly.
'Come on Gareth, Shelly has to go home,' said Sarah not noticing that there was a problem.
'Yeah, we are off now,' added Brett 'see you later!'
Shelly and Brett managed to leave and quickly walked off.
'Well that went a bit weird,' said Brett.
'It is alright,' said Shelly 'it just confirms what he was like the other week,'
'Did he try touching you?' Brett asked her.
'Yes, it was creepy,' replied Shelly 'I am so glad that you came in when you did,'
'I was outside anyway,' said Brett.
'I knew that you would have been,' smiled Shelly.
'Well we got an Email and a password as well,' said Brett.
'I will give it to Hana to investigate,' replied Shelly.
'I also got a lot of footage of them talking,' said Brett.
'Really?' asked Shelly.
'Just in case,' smiled Brett.
'You are quite clever!' said Shelly.
'Thanks,' said Brett.
Once they reached Shelly's house she thanked him again from saving her from Gareth and hugged him.
'I thought that you do not like people touching you?' joked Brett.
'I don't mind,' replied Shelly 'at least you are not a creep!'
Brett felt satisfied. It seemed that the dull and boring guy had finally one over the beautiful girl instead of the arrogant snob that was Gareth.
Then Brett comes in all like:
^This is so cute.
I was just gonna say Brett should've tenderly kissed her in that moment.
The next day Shelly contacted Hana and told her about her findings and Hana decided to do some investigating. Her plan was to log into the secret Email in the public library so if anything happened it would not be traced to her laptop. She was excited about what she would find and found a free computer at the library and logged in. What she saw shocked her.
'We will need to encourage students to register to vote. Most of them will be going home so we will need to take their polling cards and vote for the Messiah,'
'How will we do that?'
'Quite easy, I know someone who can get us into the University halls and the polling cards will be left in pigeon holes,'
'Will it work though?'
'I might do as we nearly managed to swing it before and this time we have an even bigger army of us,'
'Let's do this then. But keep it quiet,'
As the messages went on things became even more sinister.
'We have managed to bribe the journalist. I met up with them yesterday. They are on our side but they need to convince some more of their colleagues but we can get onto their show and we will have to push hard to get our voices heard,'
'We have found the address of that candidate and will launch a surprise protest outside their house. The journalists have been paid off so will keep some bits quiet if it gets out of hand. I hope that their children are not home like when it happened at the other address the other week. We just about managed to get away with that one,'
'I know someone who managed to follow that journalist home the other night. It was a shame that cameras where around but they came close to getting at them,'
The messages quickly became more and more intense and Hana felt nervous. This organisation was clearly acting illegally. Hana decided to ring Stacy to let her know what she thought and then Stacy contacted a few other people while Hana spoke to Shelly. Hana printed off everything and then headed back home. There was the party later that night and they didn't want to spoil it but it was clear that there was something sinister going on.
I hope that Hana is careful who she talks with. Would hate for something to happen to her. I hope someone goes to the authorities.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid