Love At First Sight

**Love At First Sight** is the second episode of the Adelaine Jones Saga and the fifty-second episode overall in Milo's One-shot Series book.

## Plot

10 years after Adelaine was born, she was about to enter Fifth Grade, which she was extremely excited about, particularly as she can finally be in the same class as her best friend, Lexi Turner, who is the daughter of her father's former colleague, Alex Turner. After Adelaine helped her father to make the table, the three dined with some of their more expensive cutlery as they ate macaroni and pork chops for dinner. Adelaine was still extremely excited when she went back to her room to prepare for her first day in Fifth Grade. After she prepared everything, her parents tucked her in for the night as she hugged her stuffed cat to bed.

The next morning, Adelaine got herself dressed up before finding her half-awake father, David Jones. Jones was slightly annoyed when Adelaine told him to wake up, though Alessia, who is Adelaine's mother got him out of their bed quickly. After Adelaine and Jones had their breakfast that Alessia cooked, the two left their home to get to their bus stop, where Adelaine reunited with her best friend Lexi, wearing a blue dress. The two shared a hug before Lexi's father Alex complimented on how cute the two are. Adelaine and Lexi chatted to each other, both at the bus stop and later on the school bus itself, where Lexi said that she hopes of there being new boys in the school for the two to be able to date, which Adelaine embarrassingly said that she isn't the type to have crushes. They arrived at the school and was led by a teacher to their classrooms, before the two separated to have their own lessons.

The two resumed talking to each other during lunchtime, with Lexi saying that the class was mostly the same as from the Fourth Grade. They also talked about clubs, of which Adelaine was already sure that she wanted to join the theatre club. After a relatively uneventful afternoon, the two were leaving the school when they saw the bulletin board, advertising for clubs, of which there were posters about the theatre club and the robotics club, which were the two clubs that Adelaine and Lexi wanted to join. As Adelaine was walking home after Lexi was picked up by Alex, Jones caught her and told his daughter off for walking down the street alone. After getting back home, Jones told Alex that Adelaine would be coming over, which Alex quickly accepted. Jones and Adelaine then walked to the Turners' home, dropping her off and telling her that he'll be picking her up at dinner. Adelaine first said hello to Sammy Turner, who is Lexi's elder brother. Sammy was focusing on his maths homework, and when Adelaine asked him about things, he became slightly annoyed, which Adelaine quickly apologized. After they got some lemonade from Alex, Lexi and Adelaine went upstairs to her room, which is filled with blue items. They chilled out before Adelaine had dinner at the Turners' house, after which Jones and Alessia picked up Adelaine before the family went home. Adelaine's parents also allowed her to join the theatre club, which she was extremely happy of.

Two weeks later, Lexi revealed that there a European boy who had a funny accent, although Adelaine wasn't able to ask what his name is. After the school day ended, Lexi and Adelaine walked down the hallway to their interest club meetings before they went their own ways. While Adelaine was walking down the hallway to the theatre club however, she tripped on a pencil and as she forgot to zip her backpack up, her items fell out of her backpack as she fell face first. She looked up and saw a handsome red-haired boy with black eyes, outstretching his hands to help her. The boy apologized that he accidentally bumped into her, and he quickly helped Adelaine to pack her items back up. When the two both grabbed the last paper, their hands touched one another, causing both of them to blush. The boy revealed that he is also heading towards the theatre club like Adelaine, and introduced himself as Hugh Anderson. Adelaine introduced herself back before the two agreed to be friends, still blushing from the encounter.

The two quickly got to the theatre club interest meeting together, with Hugh suggesting Les Miz (Les Misérables), though the teacher rejected as it was not appropriate for the Elementary School students to do the musical. They finished the interest meeting before Lexi's robotics club, and the two chatted to each other as Hugh revealed that he is also in Lexi's class. He said goodbye to Adelaine before lifting his hands to kiss it. Adelaine was surprised and realized that Hugh could have a crush on her, though she shook off the thought. Lexi surprised her while Adelaine was still thinking about Hugh, though she stopped blushing quickly to not give off any clues about her encounter with Hugh. Adelaine and Lexi went to their cars as Adelaine was taken back home by her father, where he asked her about her school day, though Adelaine did not bring up Hugh kissing her hand to prevent Jones getting too worried of it.

While Jones was at the backyard flipping some burger buns, Adelaine was helped by Alessia for her maths homework before they had burgers for dinner. Alessia also revealed some details about her work, including that Sammy was indeed one of her students. Adelaine then went back up to her room and began to chat on the phone for hours on end, exchanging every topic possible until they got to Hugh, who Lexi confirmed was indeed the boy she was talking about that afternoon. Lexi was quite supportive of their relationship, and they were still chatting until 2am, when Jones discovered that Adelaine was still awake, and told her to go to bed. During the autumn period, Hugh and Adelaine have became good friends, and she had also discovered that Hugh was French-Italian-American as he has an Italian father and a French-American mother, leading to his unique accent. The two had also exchanged their phone numbers by this point and had begun texting each other. While at Adelaine's godparents' house however, Hugh texted her in a flirty way, resulting in Adelaine blushing enough to be noticed by Sofia and Alessia, who were sitting at the living room. Although Adelaine tried to disguise it as Lexi being the one who likes Hugh, Sofia quickly saw through her expressions to know that she's the one who has a crush on Hugh, which she does. Sofia said that she will keep it a secret for now, but told Adelaine that she'll have to tell her father eventually. Adelaine later fell asleep as she was watching The Wiz (the Wizard of Oz) in her guest bedroom.

In January, Hugh called her "Bellissima" (Bellissima is Beautiful in Italian) while Adelaine was talking to him and Lexi, resulting in Lexi getting excited and squealing about the relationship. A few days later, the GPD along with the Jones' went to a steakhouse for dinner, and while Adelaine wanted Lexi to keep her mouth shut about Hugh, she eventually brought him up and started her teasing tirade after she asked Sammy about if he has a girlfriend yet, with Adelaine jumping into the discussion, exposing the secret in the process. Despite Adelaine and Sammy told Lexi to stop, she continued and wound up saying it loud enough for everyone to hear. Adelaine felt completely embarrassed and Lexi felt terrible when she realized what she had done, and as the dinner was coming to an end, Adelaine went into the bathroom and begun to cry as she was scared of how her father would react. Later on, Alessia went to comfort her daughter, and hugged her as Adelaine cried into her chest. They then had a conversation in Swiss-German (the translation is at the Trivia section) before Adelaine cleaned herself up and got out of the bathroom, after which Lexi apologized to her, which she accepted.

Jones was initially displeased by his daughter's revelation, although his face softened after he saw Adelaine's sadness. She continued to cry as Jones drove back home before they sat down at the couch to have the discussion. Adelaine then admitted that she is scared of her father, much to Jones' confusion and bewilderment. Adelaine cried again as she told him that she thought her father would be mad at her for having a crush on a boy. After Jones shared his father moment with Adelaine, he became surprised when Adelaine admitted that Lexi was right that she is flirting a boy, although he understands that Lexi was exaggerating the truth. Jones then went on to question Adelaine about the boy that she has a crush on, eventually asking questions that Alessia was displeased about. Jones suggested that Adelaine talk to her godfather Gabriel Herrera about it, who just so happened to be visiting the Jones' later that evening as they were concerned about Adelaine. She also told him about Hugh before Gabriel and Sofia left.

Three months later, Adelaine and Hugh were about to perform their first musical together, with Hugh telling Adelaine to stay behind after the performance. The two and the rest of the cast received applauses before they went to the backstage. It turns out Hugh had bought Adelaine a large bouquet of flowers, and when he presented it to her, Adelaine was surprised and ecstatic and gave Hugh a big hug. He also presented her an envelope before the two left, although that bouquet of flowers was quickly noticed by her father, as well as Lexi who revealed that they were indeed roses. Jones was uncomfortable about Hugh giving his daughter roses, though Alessia gave him a death glare to just let it go. The envelope had Hugh expressing his love towards Adelaine, making her blush madly. She texted Hugh to say thank you before she went to bed.

In May, Adelaine, Hugh and Lexi, along with the rest of the Fifth Grade were graduating. Both Adelaine and Hugh got straight As, while Lexi got an A/B honor roll. Towards the end of the ceremony, Hugh decided to talk to Adelaine, the latter had decided to tell Hugh about her crush on him. After a little exchange, the two confessed their crush towards each other at the same time, with Lexi, standing afar, gasping while the two told her to shush. Adelaine first kissed Hugh on the cheeks, but Hugh then kissed Adelaine on the lips as they shared their first kiss. Adelaine then finally introduced Hugh to her parents, and while Alessia gladly accepted Hugh and shook his hand, Jones was more cautious and even questioned what did Hugh do to his daughter, though he ultimately accepted Adelaine's plea of letting her to start dating Hugh. The episode ends as the Turners and the Jones', along with Adelaine's new boyfriend Hugh went to the Herreras' house to party the night in order to celebrate their graduation.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Adelaine Jones
* Lexi Turner
* Hugh Anderson
* Alessia Jones
* David Jones

### Supporting Characters

* Gabriel Herrera
* Sofia Herrera
* Sammy Turner
* Alex Turner

### Minor Characters

* Miss Zoe Barnaby
* Unnamed theatre teacher (possibly Miss Mindy Zinkavich)

### Cameos

* Miss Charlotte Stevens
* Cathy Turner
* Unnamed Principal
* Unnamed teacher
* Camilla Anderson (mentioned)
* Enrico Anderson (mentioned)

## Continuity

* **My Love Is Family**: The episode takes place 10 years after Adelaine was born, with Lexi Turner, who was born around the same time, also appearing, now becoming Adelaine's best friend.

## Trivia

* The Swiss-German conversation that Alessia and Adelaine had after Lexi exposed her crush on Hugh can be roughly translated to as follows:
	+ **Alessia**: Why are you crying?
	+ **Adelaine**: Because I'm scared.
	+ **Alessia**: Scared? Why?
	+ **Adelaine**: I'm afraid of how Dad would react to what Lexi said.
	+ **Alessia**: I won't let him get upset with you, but I think it's about time that you and your dad talked about it, right?
	+ **Adelaine**: Thanks Mom, but before we go, can I clean up? I'm a mess!
	+ **Alessia**: Of course sweetie! I'll wait outside!
* This episode has the longest time span in the Adelaine Jones Saga, covering her entire Fifth Grade from her first day to her graduation.
* The episode is also the second longest episode in the series, with roughly 18,800 words.