Page 173 of The Examiner

WhatsApp chat between Gela Nathaniel and Cameron Wesley, 24 October 2023:

Gela

She was creating a diversion because your phone alarm shrieked when she switched it on.

Cameron

So she DID switch it on. Fuck! She set fire to J’s assignment to pull focus. Classic. So they’re on to me.

Gela

I smoothed it over. Does your phone really dial 999 when it sees a face it doesn’t recognise?

Cameron

It has added secure features. Perks of the job.

Gela

So if you show someone a cat video, it switches off and dials 999?

Cameron

Ha! Luckily, I hate cats.

RH WhatsApp group members Ludya Parak, Suzie Danners, Jonathan Danners and Gela Nathaniel, 25 October 2023:

Gela

Did you let anyone else into the studio this morning?

Suzie

Why?

Gela

Jem just asked me if Griff has become an alcoholic in the last two weeks. Long story short, she’s convinced someone who smelled of alcohol was in the studio early this morning, and she suspects you were covering for them when you said you’d been speaking to the department head about the keypad.

Suzie

How can she possibly know that? She didn’t get to the studio until after they’d gone.

Gela

We didn’t agree you could have strangers on college property. That wasn’t the deal. Who was it?

Suzie

We’ve had to access more codes and liaise with a dodgy character or two. I didn’t smell alcohol on the person who came, but she likes a drink for sure. Anyway, how does Jem know it wasn’t me, reeking of beer after a big night?

Gela

Apparently you smell of cigarettes. Please can you assure me no more strangers will be let onto college property again.

RH WhatsApp group members Ludya Parak, Suzie Danners, Jonathan Danners and Gela Nathaniel, 26 October 2023:

Ludya