3x5. ASB Elections: The Outcome of Home Economics
Toward the end of the class, everyone has finished making their partner's jerseys.
Ashton is looking over his class. He then says in a dramatic tone: "And now it's time...for the final reveal of...the curling jerseys...!"
Evelyna raises her hand. "Don't you mean hockey jerseys?"
"Yeah, yeah, hockey jerseys," he says, throwing the dramatic tone away.
With many giggles, Jasmine giddily turns to her partner, Bryce Harper. "Here's what I made you...!" She unfolds and holds up a hockey jersey for Bryce. It looks like how it's suppose to, but there is an extra addition of many pink and purple hearts sewed on the back, around "Harper."
Bryce stares at it with a frown. "I'm not a hockey player."
"But you can still wear it...!" She giggles some more as she hands it over to him.
With a huff, he takes the jersey and tosses her her own jersey. As she unravels it, she squeals with happiness. "Bryce Harper made my jersey...!"
Bryce rolls his eyes and begins doing his hair.
"Here you go, Faragher!" Brendan hands a goalie-cut hockey jersey to his partner.
"And here you go, Gallagher!" Ryan says with the same tone, handing Brendan his hockey jersey.
"Ahhh, here's your jersey!" Emily says excitedly as she spreads the jersey she made for her partner, Matt Hackett, out in front of him. "You see, the front patch was a bit hard to sew because it's so big with so many curves, the fingers were especially hard to sew and I didn't want to get too close to the edge where the thread would snap easily but I also didn't want it too deep where the thread would be sown onto—"
"It's nice, Emily," Matt cuts in softly.
"Really, you think it's nice! I think I could've down a better job on the numbers on the—"
"Thank you."
Emily smiles at him. "Yeah, you're so welcome!"
Matt hands her the jersey he made for her. "Here's yours."
Emily's eyes widen with excitement with a long gasp as she unfolds it before her eyes. "It's so beautiful!" She lays it out excitedly. "The logo, the numbers on the sleeve, I like that tilting 'L' and 'R' there in my last name, and oooooh, that 'C' on the front looks nice...!"
"Here is your jersey!" Max presents his partner, who is Jamie Benn, his jersey, which is neatly folded.
"Oh, thank you...," Jamie says softly as he takes it and puts it on his lap. He then gets another folded jersey and hands it to Max. "This one's yours."
"Aw, you're so sweet! Thank you, Jamie!"
"Jersey!" Rickard shouts as he gives his partner, Artemi Panarin, his jersey.
Artemi silently takes it and observes it. He then makes an odd look as he sees that the word "Panini" is on the place his last name is suppose to be. He turns to him. "That's not my last name."
"Oh, I like the name 'Panini'!" Rickard tells him. "It reminds me of bread! And it's your nickname, yah? You're Panini!"
Artemi warily gives him his jersey. "I didn't put your nickname on yours..."
"Aw, that's fine!" Rickard take it and looks at it. "I like it! Thank you!" He hugs it with a huge, closed smile.
"Made by the one and only Tyler Seguin." Tyler holds out the jersey for his partner, Hampus Lindholm. "Be proud." He hands it over to him.
Hampus takes it and scrutinizes it. "Oh, I like the leprechaun! And the colours, too!"
"How about the patchwork?" Tyler asks flatly.
"That's good, too! Here!" Hampus hands him the jersey he made.
Tyler takes a look at it. "Not bad... It's good... Yeah... It'd work..."
Evelyna turns to Beau with excitement in her eyes. "Can I see my jersey now? Can I? Can I?"
"Calm down!" Beau tells her with a goofy, deep voice. "I'll show you right here-y!" With acting like royalty, he grabs a jersey from the pile of jersey and unravels it in front of her.
Evelyna's smile immediately morphs into a gawk as she takes in her jersey.
The patches of her jersey matches the condition of the ice's designs in The Freezer on the first day of practice: the patches are everywhere but where they are suppose to be. The logo is on the right sleeve, the letters are scattered in the front and back, with some hanging off from the hem of the jersey, one of the big "4"s is on the front and another is upside down on the back, and the little suppose-to-be sleeve numbers are on the shoulders and front.
Beau spots Evelyna's gawking and says, "What, you don't like it? It's my best!" He smiles proudly, yet still looks silly.
It takes a few seconds for Evelyna to speak, but it is obvious that she is shocked. "Um, it doesn't go that way, Beau... This looks... Let's see here..." She takes the right sleeve and pulls at the logo patch; it's sewn in good. "Nope, no way to put this back delicately..." She groans and leans back. "Awful!"
"Awfully good!" Beau corrects with a failed smirk.
"Haha, you're weird..." Evelyna begins to turn away from him.
From the other side of the room where Brendan and Ryan are located, Ashton shouts, "That's not very nice! Say you're sorry!"
Evelyna turns to Beau with a small frown. "I'm sorry, Beau, I didn't mean it..." She then hugs him.
Beau hugs her back. "Aw, no worries, I get that all the time!"
Evelyna pulls away from him. "I wonder what Vladdy's up to..." She leans her elbows agains the table with her hands holding up her head. She sighs dreamingly.
Beau taps her on the shoulder.
Evelyna jolts in her seat and turns to him. "What?"
"What about my jersey?"
"Oh." She swipes a jersey off her desk and hands it to him. "Here."
Beau takes the jersey and looks at it. "Awww..." He frowns. "It looks like the others..."
"Uh, that's how they're suppose to be like."
Beau crumbles the jersey and tosses it to the other pile of jerseys he made. "Don't forget your jersey!" He proudly hands it over to her.
Evelyna takes it like as if it is a bag filled with trash. "Okay..."
Ashton then approaches Beau's and Evelyna's desks. "How's the jersey-swap going?"
"Look at this." Evelyna holds out her messed-up jersey in front of the teacher.
"Isn't it wonderful?" Beau exclaims. "I made it!"
Ashton's jaw has dropped with his eyes on the cloth with many scattered patches. He then turns to Beau. "You-you made this?"
"Yes, sir-y!" He nods with a huge, closed smile.
"And I told you that you can make others, right...?"
"Yeah! I have 'em right here!" Beau leans over and scoops the pile of "completed" jerseys off from the ground and onto the table. He begins paging through them. "I did Bortz's, Knight's, Tavares's, Ondřej's—"
"NO!" Evelyna screeches as she snatches Ondřej's jersey out from his hands. She peers at it with a horrified look. "No, Pally's jersey's ruined as well! There's only the letters 'Š'... 'K'... 'E' and... 'A'!"
"Yeah, I did Ondřej Kaše's jersey!" Beau tells her.
"Oh." Evelyna tosses the jersey back at Beau.
Ashton looks very iffy. "So, Beau, um, how many jerseys did you do, exactly?"
"I did the whole varsity team! And most of the ones who aren't here!" Beau looks very proud of himself.
"Aiy... I'm gonna have a nice chat with the principals..." Ashton turns around and shuffles away.
Evelyna is eyeing the other jerseys with disgust.
Beau turns to Evelyna. "What?"
Evelyna shakes her head and goes back to daydreaming about her one and only Vladdy.
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