章 34: The First Date
After the disappointing run at the haunted house, we headed to the food court to eat. Leo simply grabbed a hot dog while I grabbed a burger. We sat on a bench located under a tree.
Leo took the sausage that was on the hot dog and protruded it outwards. He started licking all around the sausage while staring at me with hot eyes.
"Stop. We're in public." I warned.
Leo ignored me. He then stuffed his whole mouth with the sausage, trying to speak. "Ahh! Huuntuuur, it fuulls soo guud!" He wanted to sound sexy but all they came out of his mouth was some gibberish. I rolled my eyes.
"Stop it. You'll choke yourself." I cautioned.
Leo swallowed the sausage down his throat and ate all the bread in one go. "His eating habits never change" I thought to myself.
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Later, we played on the turbo drop. Every time Leo dropped a few meters, Leo would scream. I simply watched the scenery from my seat, completely unfazed. It felt kind of boring. "Are all the rides here boring?" I thought to myself.
We then headed to the pirate ship ride. We headed to the very top role, which was the most exciting part of the boat to be in. The pirate ship swung upwards to one side and then returned downwards. It then swung to the opposite side. To be honest, even Leo felt unenthusiastic about this ride compared to the others.
After spending a few more hours playing different attractions, we left the amusement park and headed to the cinema to watch a movie. Leo decided that we should watch a romance movie, since that's what was expected for a date. I rolled my eyes.
When we came out of the cinema, Leo was balling his eyes up. "*sniff sniff* the main character clearly didn't deserve this! *sniff sniff* why did he have to die! He should've stayed *sniff* together with the main heroine!" I held my arm around his shoulders and pushed him towards me. He continued to cry on my chest. I ruffled his hair and rubbed his back to comfort him.
At night, Leo made a dinner reservation for a restaurant serving French cuisine located in a 5-star hotel. "Why are we spending so much money just for dinner?" I asked, dissatisfied with the wasteful spending.
"It's our first date, Hunter." Leo whined. "I wanted to make it special! You're not romantic at all!"
"Romance are for girls. We're both guys! What's the point of doing this!" I fired back.
Leo pouted. "Boys can have romance as well. At least, I want to feel this sort of romance with you." He wrapped his arms around my neck to coax me. "I'm paying for the meal anyway, why does it matter to you?"
"No. I'll pay for this." I said. We entered the restaurant at 7pm. The waiter walked us to our seats.
Our table was located next to the window with a view of the entire city landscape. Two candles were lit on the sides of the table, while a menu was placed in front of us.
I opened the menu and found that everything was written in French.
"Hunter." Leo whimpered. "I don't know how to read any of this."
"I'll order for us." Leo sighed.
"You know French?" Leo asked in surprise.
"Yes." Along with 6 other languages, I thought.
"You're amazing!" Leo praised, his eyes shining.
I ordered 2 portions of fresh salad as a starter (hors d'oeuvre), foie gras as a second course (entrée), pot-au-feu as a main course and raspberry and blackcurrant galette topped with vanilla ice-cream as dessert. I also ordered two glasses of grape juice as both of us could not drink alcohol.
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It took the first course 15 minutes to arrive, in the meantime Leo asked, "So how was today?"
"Hm?" I tilted my head.
"Was today fun?" Leo asked again.
I nodded.
"Would you like to go on a date again?" Leo smiled at me, he was giving me a hopeful look, expecting a certain answer.
I frowned. "There's no need to go on dates." I answered.
Leo felt slightly disappointed. "But didn't you think that today was fun?"
"There's no need for us to go through all this." I replied. "Can't we just spend time at your house with your parents?"
"That's different!" Leo pouted. He wanted to dig my brain up and see what's inside to see my thought process.
"Leo." I said softly.
"I don't want to hear it." Leo sulked.
"We're family."
"As in husband and wife?" Leo joked with no energy.
"As brothers."
"Isn't it possible for you to see me as something else?" Leo pleaded.
"I can't." I replied.
"Why not?"
"Because you deserve better, Leo." I stared at him with conviction. "You deserve a better person than someone like me."
"You're the best person in my mind, Hunter." Leo replied with similar conviction. "No one is better than you, and no one ever will."
My heart jumped. "I-" Just then, the waiter arrived and gave us the starter, immediately cutting off our conversation. We started eating the salad without saying anything.
I elegantly reached for the outer fork and knife and ate the salad buy pushing the vegetables from the knife to the fork and lifting it up to my mouth. Leo, in the meantime, simply used a spoon and shoved all the vegetables into his mouth. I wanted to faceplam.
"We're in a high-class restaurant, can't you conduct yourself in a better manner?!" I whispered at him.
"But I'm hungry." Leo looked at me innocently.
"At least slow down a bit, eating that fast is bad for your health." I warned.
Leo clearly did not hear me because when the foie gras came, he shoved it all in his mouth again. I wanted to roll my eyes but that will be quite impolite so I just inwardly cursed.
When Leo finished the foie gras, he simply stared at me using my fork and my knife and cutting it into a few pieces before slowly placing it in my mouth.
"What?" I asked after I swallowed the meat down my throat.
"You look like a prince right now, Hunter." Leo gleamed.
"Are you saying that you're the poor girl that ended up being taken by the prince and became the princess then, Leo?" I joked.
"Yes. I'm your princess, Hunter." Leo smiled, staring at me while putting his elbow on the table, supporting his head threw his hand.
I choked.
When the main course came, I already felt slightly stuffed. Leo, however, gladly wolfed down all of his food again. I ate slowly while Leo stared at me. I felt slightly uncomfortable on the inside.
"Can't you go on the phone or something?" I asked.
"No." Leo replied.
"Aren't you bored?"
"I can stare at you all day without getting bored, Hunter." Leo said with a sleazy smile.
"It feels like I'm being hit on by a bad man." I thought to myself.
Leo's favourite course, the dessert, arrived after I finally managed to finish the main course. I stared at the galette, unmoving. By the time I took my fork and knife, Leo have already finished the whole thing. He licked his lips that was filled with ice-cream in delight. I slowly nibbled on the food, waiting for my stomach to finish processing my previous course. By the time I finished the dessert, it was already 10pm.
I asked the waiter for the bill. Leo wanted to pay for me, but I refused. I took a look at the bill and widened my eyes. Tearfully, I gave the waiter my debit card. It's lucky that I get a high salary from tutoring Adrian, or else I would've needed to declare bankruptcy after this meal.
We took the bus home. While on the bus, I stood beside Leo. He was starting to get quite sleepy so I grabbed his waist to prevent him from falling.
"Hunter." Leo breathed close to my ear. "I want to be with you forever."
My heart started beating faster.
"He's really good at flirting." I thought to myself.
I returned the favor by pinching the fat on his waist. Leo furrowed his brows in discomfort.
"Don't joke around." I whispered back.
"I wasn't joking, Hunter." He stared at me. "I want us to stay in the same class all the way through university, then we can get married, maybe adopt a few children, and live until we die of old age."
"You're thinking way ahead of yourself, Leo. Just live day by day." I retorted.
"Mhmm...." Leo fell asleep, unable to hear me. His head was leaning against my shoulder, his body slumped close to mine.
I dragged Leo off of the bus and went back home. Tucking Leo to sleep on my bed, I decided to sleep separately this time. I took a shower and slept in the master bedroom, thinking about the sequence of events that happened today.
章 35: The Primaries
The next day was the first Monday of October, where each classroom and faculty division would assign a delegate to vote for a candidate in the primaries. Leo, who was trailing behind Mike in the polls, arrived at school much earlier than me in order to convince more people to vote for him. His actions were viewed as enthusaism by some and desparation by others. Leo mostly campaigned for the freshmen, who were the swing votes that Leo much needed.
The primaries would take place after school in a special afternoon ceremony. Therefore Leo still have a few more hours to convince the students.
Each class have a different way of choosing a delegate, but most classes would choose 5 students randomly and have them represent a candidate in the elections. Voting for the student would mean voting for the candidate the student is representing. The student who received the most votes would become the delegate of the class and must vote for the candidate he or she is representing. Of course, some classes have their own unique rules in choosing delegates passed down by tradition.
In general, Grade 12 will choose their delegates in the 1st period, Grade 11 on the 2nd period and so on. Therefore, Leo have until the 4th period to convince the Grade 9 students to vote for him.
When class started, Leo have been to busy posting on social media to even listen to the teacher. This went on until lunchtime, where we met Rebecca and James, who were both in different classes than us.
"Don't worry Leo! I have already convinced my class to vote for you!" Rebecca exclaimed, patting on Leo's shoulder to reassure him.
"I have also convinced my class to vote for you." James added quietly.
Leo gave a smile, stating, "I'm really not worried about the Grade 10 students. Most of them would be forced to vote for me anyways to maintain the dignity of our grade. After all, I'm the only Grade 10 candidate running. I'm more worried about the Grade 9 students."
James, Rebecca and I nodded.
"I'm going to go to the freshmen and campaign for them." Leo said. "You guys eat lunch without me!"
As Leo walked away, Rebecca commented, "He's really hardworking when he's doing the stuff he's interested in, isn't he?"
"You don't see him that enthusaistic in class." I snorted. "It's better to get good grades than doing these random things."
"Now, now." Rebecca soothed. "Leo's just doing what he likes. You should just support him with the best of your ability."
"Aren't I doing that already?" I rolled my eyes.
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In the third period, the classes of Grade 10 started voting for their delegates. Our class unanimously elected Leo as our delegate, since Leo's fame is our class' fame. Other classes also selected their delegates.
After fourth period, the afternoon ceremony started. Leo was sitting nervously next to me, moving around in discomfort. I patted my hand on his shoulder to calm him down.
The staff asked each delegate from each class and faculty division to come up on stage. Leo headed up, with a nervousness that I've never seen before.
There were a total of 30 delegates. The staff moved a whiteboard towards the middle of the stage and gave each delegate a magnet with the sign of a tick. One tick would represent one vote. When a delegate placed a tick on a candidate, the staff would announce the class and the candidate the class voted for.
The sequence of the voting starts from the freshmen to the teachers in ascending order. Threfore, the candidate from Class 9-A walked up to the whiteboard first.
"Class 9-A votes for Mike Alexson."
The first vote of the day started with a disappointment for Leo.
"Class 9-B votes for Mike Alexson."
Leo's face turned ugly.
"Class 9-C votes for Mike Alexson."
Leo's face turned grim.
"Class 9-D votes for Leo Wilson."
Leo gave a sigh of relief.
"Class 9-E votes for Owen Stark."
Leo gave a look of surprise. He did not expect someone other than him and Mike getting a vote from the freshmen.
"Class 9-F votes for Leo Wilson."
After the freshmen delegates stepped down, the people from Grade 10 headed up.
"Class 10-A votes for Leo Wilson."
"Class 10-B votes for Leo Wilson."
"Class 10-C votes for Leo Wilson."
"Class 10-D votes for Mike Alexson."
Leo gave a look of surprise. Class 10-D was James' class. Even though he thought there might be some faithless delegates in Grade 10, he did not expect it to come from James' class.
The rest of Grade 10 voted for Leo Wilson.
Afterwards, the Grade 11 students headed up, all voting for Mike Alexson except for Class 11-F, who voted for Owen Stark and Class 11-E, who voted for Leo Wilson.
Class 11-E was Adrian's class. To my surprise, Adrian was actually the delegate for his class. It seemed I completely underestimated Adrian's abilities.
When the Grade 12 studnents came up, people expected Mike to lose some votes to the other Grade 12 candidates. However, to everyone's surprise, all the delegates from Grade 12 voted for Owen Stark, becoming the dark horse of the primaries. Even the classes from Mike's and the other candidates' class voted for Owen. I narrowed my eyes.
The votes are now tied between Leo, Mike and Owen. Therefore, it is now up to the teachers' votes to determine the winners and loser of the primaries.
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[This section is under the POV of Mike Alexson]
As a senior student, Mike was sitting on the front row of the gymnasium. He stared up at the stage, smiling. If Hunter were to see his smile right now, he would want to punch him in the face.
Mike thought, "The votes from the students have gone just as I planned, except for Class 11-E, who was supposed to vote for me. However, this slight mistake will not make a dent on my plans."
"I have already discussed with the principal of my arrangements. If the teachers voted for me in both the primaries and the elections, my father will donate $10 million to the school. Enough for them to build a new swimming pool and new equipments with plenty to spare."
As he waited for the teachers to vote, he couldn't help but deepen his smile.
However, once he heard the next announcement, his face immediately turned ugly.
"The Faculty of the Natural Sciences Division votes for Leo Wilson."
Mike completely did not expect that the teachers would vote for Leo. He cried in his heart, "What is going on?!"
"The Faculty of the Life Sciences Division votes for Leo Wilson."
There were black lines on Mike's forehead.
"The Faculty of the Mathematics Division votes for Leo Wilson."
"The Faculty of the Arts Division votes for Mike Alexson."
"The staff members vote for Leo Wilson."
Finally the principal headed up to the stage and placed his tick next to Leo Wilson's name, signifying his decision.
"The principal votes for Leo Wilson."
"Please give a round of applause for the nominees of this school year for Student Council president: Leo Wilson and Mike Alexson!" The principal headed to the podium and spoke on the microphone.
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[This section is in the POV of Hunter and Leo]
Leo immediately jumped from his seat. He immediately hugged me excitedly.
"OMG! OMG! I WON! I WON! I became the front-runner for this year's elections!" Leo screamed in happiness. He was crying from excitement, jumping up and down while hugging my back.
"Congratulations," I said, surrounding my arms around Leo and smiled slightly.
All the students stood up and clapped.
After the clapping stopped, a staff member announced,
"The final results for this year's primaries are:
Leo Wilson: 13 votes
Louis Wong: 0 votes
Mike Alexson: 9 votes
Adam Lincoln: 0 votes
Owen Stark: 8 votes
Leo Wilson have won the plurality of votes, becoming the front-runner for the elections. The runner-up is Mike Alexson, lagging behind by 4 votes. Leo and Mike please come up to the stage and retrieve your nominee badge."
Leo happily ran up the stage and took the nominee badge and front-runner badge from the staff's hand, immediately replacing it with the candidate badge.
Mike Alexson walked up the stage looking quite gloomy, he reluctantly took the nominee and runner-up badges from the staff and stood next to Leo.
A staff member took out a camera and took a photo of Leo and Mike standing next to each other, before asking them to head back to their seats.
"This concludes today's electoral primaries. The presidential elections will take place on Friday, two weeks from now." The principal said.
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