The Election Game

**The Election Game** is the eighth episode of the Adelaine Jones Saga and the sixty-eighth Episode overall in Milo's One-shot Series book.

## Plot

At the start of the year, Fairview High School is running its annual Presidential Election for the student body, with one of Adelaine's friends, Frances Payne, running for the Presidency. She is facing up against Matthew Baldwin, a supremacist who had a history of insulting the LGBTQ+ community, along with a history of discrimination against European-Americans. On February 4th, Adelaine, along with her boyfriend Hugh, were talking to William and Sean at the cafeteria when Matthew stormed into the table, pushing both Hugh and William out of the way as he took a seat. Sean told Matthew that everything he says is rude and impolite, which Matthew responded by using a slur to attack Sean, causing him to broke down in tears. After William attempted to comfort Sean, Matthew doubled down by using another slur directed at Sean, resulting in the latter crying even more.

Matthew then turned to Hugh and Adelaine, and told the two to stop letting William and Sean be in love as they are a gay couple, which the two refused. Matthew then attacked Adelaine by saying that he doesn't want to hear a girl's opinion, angering Hugh in the process. Matthew also attacked Hugh for being a European-American, and despite of him trying to keep his composure, Matthew would trigger Adelaine instead after he said that Hugh should be deported for not being a pure-bred American. Adelaine would finally lose it after Matthew attacked Sean for his half-Swiss ethnicity, and being half-Swiss herself, she grabbed Matthew by the shirt and yelled at him to stop being racist and xenophobic.

After refusing to shut up following Matthew's demand, he punched Adelaine right at the nose as she fell, though Hugh would catch her before she would drop to the ground. A fight erupted as a consequence, with Sean and Matthew going after each other as Frances, Lexi and Audrey took Adelaine to the nurse as she was suffering a nosebleed following the punch. The bleeding stopped after a while, however she would suffer a nosebleed again after she sneezed. As a result of it, the nurse told Adelaine to return home in order for her nose to heal, which she agreed to. Adelaine was later picked up by her father, who panicked when he saw Adelaine having blood all over her dress as Lexi returned to her class.

Later that night, the Jones' and the Turners went to Gabriel's house for dinner, although Adelaine, Lexi and Sammy were quiet due to the incident earlier that day. After asking, Adelaine accidentally revealed that she was punched in the face, hence why she suffered the nosebleed, infuriating Jones. After telling what had happened, an angry Jones stormed out of dinner and soon enough, he and Alex were summoned to the parent-teacher conference as a result of the incident. During the conference, Matthew's father Jack insulted Jones' family as Jones' wife was Swiss by birth, and as a result, his daughter isn't American either. Jones lost it as Jack continued to be racist, nearly resulting in Jones punching him, although Alex would restrain him. Principal Gwardieza later announced that Matthew will be suspended for a few days for the action, along with a warning that if he does it again, he will be disqualified from the Presidential Election. In the hallway, Jones met Frances much to his bewilderment, though happily accepted her pins, wishing her to defeat Matthew in the elections. The two would return to Gabriel's house and later back to their own homes.

The next day, the final debate was held between the frontrunners. The debate became a fiery slew of attacks as Matthew was attacking her character, but would begin to get out of control after Matthew called out Frances for her past with Kelsey Griffs. As Lexi shouted to get back to the debate instead of attacking people's character, Matthew insulted Adelaine (whose supporters later dumped popcorn over her) of her Swiss origins. Frances responded with a pledge to bring equality for all regardless of their affiliations, to the cheers of a roaring crowd. After the debate however, Matthew proceeded to grope Frances, Audrey and Adelaine, tipping Audrey's girlfriend Sammy over the edge as Matthew groped his sister Lexi as well. Sammy, Sean and Hugh would finally get their revenge on Matthew by beating him up over all of his actions over the past few days, before they went off to vote. Fortunately for them, some genius manipulation and fake news, coupled with the lack of CCTV meant that none of them were punished. The day afterwards, Frances was declared to have won the election, and after the school day was over, the group went to a café to celebrate Frances' victory.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Adelaine Jones
* Matthew Baldwin
* Frances Payne

### Supporting Characters

* Lexi Turner
* Sammy Turner
* Hugh Anderson
* William Evans
* Sean Dupont
* David Jones
* Alex Turner

### Minor Characters

* Audrey Willington
* Alessia Jones
* Sofia Herrera
* Gabriel Herrera
* Cathy Turner
* Jack Baldwin
* Principal Michelle Gwardieza

### Cameos

* Kelsey Griffs (mentioned)
* Unnamed French teacher
* Lily Lancer
* Jackson Brills

## Trivia

* In the final debate, Matthew was seen to have been present despite of his suspension and that Frances mentioned that the election was tomorrow. This could either be as Matthew was allowed to return to school for the debate or that it was a writer oversight.