3x1. ASB Elections: A New Candidate
On one beautiful Thursday morning, One Summer Academy has a different look: adorned on its outside hallways and walls are posters and banners (that are not upside down) with John Tavares's face, John's name, and the words "vote" and "president." That is right, it is part of the ASB President campaign and today is the day the students get to vote.
It is quite obvious that John is the only person running for president due to his poster being the only posters on the wall. And there is one student who does not like...
"I'm not voting for John to be president!" Tyler Seguin spits out while strolling down the hallway with his best friend, Jamie Benn. "Can you imagine, Jamie? He'll make us iron our uniforms everyday!"
"So you wanna wear your uniform like that?" Jamie points at Beau Bennett, who is walking by them with his best buddy, Robert Bortuzzo. Beau has his blazer wrinkled, tie crinkled, and trousers inside out.
Beau gazes at the two and waves to them with a goofy smile. "Hi guys!" He then continues walking with Robert.
Tyler grins at Beau. He then turns to Jamie. "Yeah, let's vote for Beau!"
Two other friends, Brendan Gallagher and Alex Galchenyuk, are breezing by Tyler and Jamie when Tyler calls out to him: "Gally, you're voting for Beau?"
Alex and Gally halt; Gally shrugs. "I guess."
Alex makes an incredulous look. "What? Beau for president?"
When Alex says that, Nick Ritchie, Brandon Montour, and Michael Cramarossa pass by the four guys and continue walking by. But they do hear what they said...
Nick turns to Brandon. "You hear that, Monty? Beau for president."
Brandon gives Nick a weird look. "Beau for president?"
"Beau for president?" Michael repeats. He then spots the Swedish group ahead of them and goes over of the other two.
He halts in front of the Swedes, Rickard Rakell, Hampus Lindholm, and Elias Lindholm, and asks, "You guys voting for Beau for president?"
"Nooo," Rickard starts, "Hampus is gonna be president!"
"Nooo," Hampus says back, "Ricky's gonna be president!
"No, I know: Clinton!" Rickard shouts.
Brandon and Nick halt next to Michael. Brandon tells the Swedes, "Beau."
"Beau..." Hampus makes an inquiring look.
"Beau..." Rickard says in the same tone and facial expression.
Elias, who has an open textbook in his hands, looks up at the others with a lost expression. "What page is that on?"
Then Rickard and Hampus begin to chant: "Beau for president! Beau for president!"
And with their chant, another group of students hear the news:
"Oh my gosh, did you hear:" Emily Pfalzer exclaims to Hilary Knight and Jasmine Uofar, "Beau for president, that's such a great idea, why didn't we hear that before, we should vote for him, where are the ballots, is it today—?"
Hilary places her hand on her shoulder. "Chill, Em," she says in a calm tone. "We can vote today during lunch."
Jasmine pipes in: "Hopefully we'll get a better candidate with better hair like Bryce and Gally and Monty and Tyler..."
"Those are your teammates," Hilary points out with uncertainty, yet Jasmine continues on:
"...and Matt and Tom and Saad..."
From the Swedish group, Elias skips across the quad and goes over to the entrance of the lockers, where Anastasia Nabiahc and Olli Määttä are getting their backpacks ready for class. "Hey, do you know which page 'Beau for president' is on?" He raises his textbook-occupied hands up to his eye level.
Anastasia turns to Olli with a confused look. "What? Beau's running for president?"
Olli gazes around his surroundings, spotting John's posters on the pillars by him. "It only looks like John's running for president..."
"No... Ricky and Hampus said Beau's running for president!" Elias informs them, lowering his textbook down.
Then as if on cue, shouting and cheering is heard from the quad. The three turn around to find a massive crowd gathering in the middle of the quad, shouting: "Beau for president! Beau for president! Beau for president!"
Tyler is the one leading the crowd with Beau sitting on his shoulders. Others among the crowd are Jamie, Robert, the teachers, who are the members of Five Seconds of Summer, and one of the principals, Niall Horan.
Chasing the crowd is another principal, Liam Payne. He is shouting to them: "Wait! You guys are staff, you can't take sides with our students!"
Elias turns to Anastasia and Olli. "See?"
From the fountain that is in the front of the quad, Evelyna Starikova, Vladislav Namestnikov, and Ondřej Palát hear the chants. They see what is going on and run over to the crowd.
Evelyna peers up high at Beau and shouts, "Congratulations for running for president!"
Beau peers down at her with a goofy smile."I'm gonna be the president for California? Sweet! I gotta make my speech!"
With that said, Tyler lowers Beau back on the ground, whips out a wireless microphone from his pocket, hands it to him.
But before Beau can take it, another principal, Harry Styles, storms up to him, exclaiming: "There it is! I'll take that!" He snatches the microphone from Tyler's hand and shouts in it: "MAKE SOME NOISE!"
"BEAU FOR PRESIDENT!" everyone in the quad shouts back.
Beau leans toward Harry and holds onto the microphone as well. He then makes his speech: "As your California president, I herebe say it is...BREAKFAST!!!"
Niall points to Beau meaningfully. "I like this guys already! He got me vote! That's what I'm talking about!" He strolls over to the cafeteria, already following Beau's command.
Louis jogs up to Beau. "Uh, not so fast there, 'bright one'!"
Beau gazes at the two principals. "Is it because I hadn't started running yet?" His face lights up. "I need to warm up first!"
Liam steps up to Beau. "The president is going to be named after school. And then we're going to see if you can be in charge or not."
Back in the locker area, John ambles up to Anastasia and Olli, who seem to be the only two sane people at the school at the moment. He has an extremely bewildered look with his eyes out at the quad.
"What is this madness?" John asks them.
Elias is flipping through the pages of his textbook. "I don't know, I'm trying to find the page..."
"Well, Seguin had an idea..." Anastasia starts off.
"...and now I guess Beau's running for president," Olli finishes.
John's jaw drops. "What? He's not even official!"
"Don't worry. He thinks he's the president of California," Anastasia tells him as a way of comfort.
"Pfft!" John scoffs. "Ridiculous!"
"I think you would be much better." Olli puts his hand on his shoulder.
"I know. I know I can count on you two voting for me!" With a smirk, John whips out two campaign button pins and hands them to the two; they take it unsurely. He then turns to Elias. "And I guess you, too." He hands Elias another button pin, then adds in, "It's not on any of those pages." He then walks off.
Meanwhile back at the quad, Beau is still having his speech:
"And we'll have Eggos and chocolate milk and pizza and In-N-Out!" Beau exclaims into the microphone.
Louis takes the microphone from Beau and Harry's grasp and uses it. "Thank you thank you, everyone needs to get to class!"
"This is what I wanna hear!" the science teacher, Michael Clifford, shouts, ignoring Louis's command.
Harry takes over the microphone and shouts: "GET TO CLASS!"
The crowd then disperses to where their zero period classes are located.
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