Blainewood Academy: The Beginning

Chapter 33: A Hard Election, Part 1

Disclaimer: It's not a sexual term.

9:35 P.M., History Class.

Justin was busy doing yet another pop quiz made once again by Miss O'Halloran. This time, Owen wasn't there with him because we was out due to a little bit of the bug. But yet, Justin sat beside Heather once again, and Geoff as well. Both Justin and Heather exchanged a type of morse code so that Miss O'Halloran wouldn't hear a peep out of the both of them. Justin tapped the tip of his pencil a little bit just to communicate with the beautiful asian. But from where Miss O'Halloran was standing here, she swear she could hear computer typing a mile away.

J: This is boring...its like living in hell with all the bad accountants...

H: Me too...this feels like 30 minutes I'll never have back...

J: Meanwhile...you'll help me with the election, right?

H: Depends...you running?

J: No, Geoff is...I'm gonna be his running mate.

H: That's awesome...I wish I could help you out, but me and Alejandro have to help Courtney with her election.

J: That sucks. I wish you can come help us...

H: Yeah, me too...

As Justin and Heather look at each other in a sweet smile and a sigh, they we're cut off by a typing of the pencil, which happened to be Geoff.

G: Hey, what's going on?

J: Damn, he found out.

H: We'll have to talk later.

J: Understood...I may have to kill Geoff for ruining this. Later.

H: You too.

As Heather focused on her test, Justin soon turned his focus on Geoff. He didn't look too pleased that Geoff interrupted his silent, yet sweet moment. Geoff tapped on the tip of his pencil to the desk again.

G: What where you and Heather doing?

J: I should kick your ass for this...

G: Agreed...you got the election buttons ready?

J: Ready and able. Don't let that no-good pansy Alejandro get his hands on them. He may tend to use it to poke little kitties.

G: Got it. Over and out.

"Ten minutes left before the test is over, I suggest you all hurry up." Miss O'Halloran warned the students. Justin and Geoff had barely the time to communicate morse code again. They realized their mistake and went on right to work. The test just happened to be a history of Canada. The test was pretty much a snorefest, so that if the two we're finally done, they could get some sleep.

Unfortunately, they didn't get a chance to as they were cut off by an announcement by the principal through the intercom.

"Students..."

"This better be good..." Miss O'Halloran muttered.

"I just wanted to inform everyone once again that the two candidates will be handing out buttons during lunch hour to show your support. After school, there will be a debate held in the Blainewood Auditorium. Thank you."

"About time..." Miss O'Halloran said to herself once again as she now took her attention to the work-infested students. "Okay, everyone. The test is done, please send them to my desk immediately."

As Justin and Geoff both heard those words. They became embroiled in a hurry. Serves them right for daydreaming through morse code.

"Mr. Morrison, Mr. Michaels, if you're done imitating Road Runner already...I would like to see the papers now." Miss O'Halloran warned them once again.

And what pace were Justin and Geoff making so far? They we're just memorizing history at the speed of light and notching them down just like a japanese bullet train going hyper speed.

"Okay...I don't have to do this, but...10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2-"

"FINISHED!" Justin and Geoff shouted in pride as they took their test papers over to Miss O'Halloran. Not to mention they sweated a bit. Who knew hard test work burned major calories? (Of course, there's no proof that working in a kickstart pace actually does that. Especially if it does cause a little bit of stress and sweat.)

"It's about time too. Next time, I prefer to stay awake in the middle of work. Not typing like lemmings." Miss O'Halloran found out all along.

They went back to their seats as Justin and Geoff muttered to each other.

"Damn eagle eye vision of hers..." Justin whispered to Geoff slightly, feeling the same thing as well.

Meanwhile, around the hallways...

There were piles of students who showed up for their complimentary election buttons that was soon handed out by both Courtney and Geoff. Of course, they were seperate miles away from each other.

Banners of "Vote 4 Courtney" and "Vote 4 Geoff" we're plasted over the hallway walls and even sayings of 'Vote for Courtney' and 'Vote For Geoff' were heard over the candidates themselves.

Mostly, there was a whole lot going on from Geoff's side. Geoff was busy wearing a Uncle-Sam like hat and Justin was busy passing around buttons which expressed Geoff's responses. Buttons like 'Go Geoff Go' and 'Geoff 4 Prez' were soon handed out. Justin was quite surprised how many people showed up for Geoff's support.

"I tell ya, Geoff...this is huge..." Justin said as mostly everyone from the blue and black dorms were receiving Geoff's presidential buttons.

"Yeah, it's much like my parties I held back in summer vacation, except that everyone's not officially naked." Geoff said to Justin as he passed another button to one of the students in the Blue dorm.

As Justin was busy opening the next box of buttons, he happened to saw Heather a mile away. He looked at her with such compassionate worry and yet such amazement.

Worry of the fact that Alejandro had his arm wrapped her at all times. That made Justin's heart sank like the Titanic itself. Justin felt a state of sadness come through him. It felt like a long time since they both felt miles apart from each other truthfully.

As Heather finally took her focus on Justin, what happened next made them become so close together spiritually. They both felt a state of sadness come between them. Never had Heather been so enhancefully enchanted by those blue eyes of Justin's. Both felt loneliness inside. It was like their souls wanted to touch each other through their shelter of safety. But at the same time, Justin also fueled determination inside him, yet he still felt sadness for her.

Heather soon shed a tear without even crying one bit. The tear was so silent, even Alejandro didn't pay attention. But Justin did. It wasn't until he started to shed a tear as well. Justin just couldn't live his life of loneliness with Heather being wrapped around those unclean hands of Alejandro. But those tears that both Heather and Justin shed to each other represented their loneliness, knowing they couldn't live with each other growing apart all the time. Justin just yearned to be with her, and so did Heather, even though he was with someone so violent and so hated like Alejandro.

As Justin kept daydreaming, someone finally snapped him out of his lonely daydream.

"Justin, are you crying?"

"Huh?" Justin finally snapped back to reality and saw Trent standing there looking a bit worried. he acted fast and wiped the tear away. "Oh, no. It's those onions. I swear if you can feel them a mile away, it looks like you're crying. Can I help you?"

"Yeah, I want in on your friend's support for Student Council president." Trent replied as Justin gave him a button that featured Geoff's face and the words 'Geoff 4 Prez' attached to it.

"There you go..." Justin said right to Trent handing him the button.

"Thanks, man." Trent replied as he put the button on his light green shirt.

"Hey, Trent. You gonna stick around for the debate and all? You're gonna watch me own!" Geoff exclaimed right to Trent.

"I wish I could, but I got a date with Gwen. I'm gonna take her to this little bistro where it's open mic night. I'm gonna think of doing a little country song for her. She may not be used to that stuff, but she likes it when I perform that kind of stuff for her." Trent told them truthfully.

"Yeah...nothing sounds more romantic than a gothic hootenanny." Justin joked at Trent.

"Shut up..." Trent chuckled as he now took his focus to Geoff. "I'll see you around, man. Good luck."

"Good luck with Gwen too. Don't fill them shoes!" Geoff joked as well as Trent left out the door and back to his locker. He then took his focus to Justin. "You think it's gonna go well...?"

Justin took this into consideration.

"Well, the way I see it Geoff...either Trent may end up going on a sugar attack because of the latte he consumes, or it may actually go well. Either way, I probably wouldn't be there. I would rather be here for my friend than nothing." Justin said as he raised his eyebrow.

"Awesome." Geoff responded, and then shouted to everybody proudly. "Okay, who wants a button? Everyone?"

The people, or supporters of Geoff, raised their hands. Which left Justin to glance back at Heather.

Unfortunately, she was just nowhere to be seen, much to Justin's disappointment. She'd had already left with Alejandro. But inside, Justin was already feeling dark because of the way he looked at Heather earlier. He let out one depressing sigh. He'd had hoped that Heather would come to him and Geoff's side to show support for the party boy, but she was forced to support Courtney instead, thanks to her untrusting boyfriend of hers.

This just didn't feel so fair to Justin after all...but he just had to move on with the silent tear that was formed in his eye. Luckily, no one saw him shed a tear.

He kept his silent heartache and went right back to work.

Geez, you really gotta feel for Justin and such. Can he get it together to see Geoff's speech in the debate against Courtney.

And how will Trent's date go with Gwen?

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