S2 Chapter 11 - The NeXt Student Council President

All across Starlight High a loud noise echoed throughout it that was heard by all. Didn't matter if you were in the gym, eating in the cafeteria, stuck in the filthy locker rooms, sleeping in a boring class, or even chatting it up in the teacher's lounge, you heard it. And that noise was someone shouting at the top of their lungs…

"WHAT THE HELLLLLL?!?!?!?!?!?!"

The source of that voice is the baffled Evan Dixon, who is looking at something he never thought would happen. Someone trying to campaign for being the next student council president, and that someone not being him!

"Oh hey, that's me," X remarks as he looks at the posters supporting him as student council president, "Wait, how come I'm running for the election?"

"I just told the teachers you agreed to it so they allowed you to run," Ronnie responds.

"This- This is unfathomable!" Evan scoffs as sweat begins to drip down his face, "X drop out of the running this instant!"

"I would," X begins to say as he looks at the poster of himself, "But they really got my good side in this, when did you even take that picture of me?"

"That's from last year's yearbook," Ronnie answers.

"Oh in that case it's awful and I demand you to create a better poster for me, your supreme leader," X commands.

"I would say no but we need you to win so fine," Ronnie sighs before walking to his next class.

Evan is completely baffled as X Locke walks past him.

However, X just places his hand on his shoulder and responds, "Hey man, they're clearly just trying to have a lil fun, so why not let them? Besides there's no way that I'd actually do well."

"Yeah," Evan remarks as he calms down, "It'll be impossible for a joke contestant like you to get to the final debate!"

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"HOW DID THAT FUCKER GET TO THE FINAL DEBATE?!" Evan roars.

Evan Dixon is standing behind the stage that was set up in the gym, getting ready for the final debate, where the two last contenders make speeches as to why the student body should vote for them. The others with him back there are Georgia Gibson and Bernard Ginger.

"Yeah, I thought nobody was going to care," Bernard uninterestedly remarks.

"He hasn't even done anything besides have some people set up posters!" Evan Dixon remarks.

"They are some pretty good posters," Georgia adds, "They really went well with the font choice."

"You think I give a damn about those shitty posters!" Evan yells.

Georgia sighs, "Was just saying."

Evan begins to walk up onto the stage as he says with a laugh, "I'm gonna have to nip this in the bud once and for all!"

Evan carries himself very well as several of the students in the bleachers, who were forced to show up to this mandatory assembly, watch on with intrigue. He's done several of these speeches in the past, he's bound to do well on this one. Across the stage standing by his own podium is X Locke, X looks at him and gives him a thumbs up. However, Evan ignores the goodwill as he's ready to stomp on that pest…verbally.

"Alright then, we'll have each participant make a speech that lasts roughly 2 minutes," Teacher Jolyne Joggers explains, "Afterwards the students get to vote on who they want as the president of the student council. Evan Dixon, you may begin your speech."

"Thank you," Evan says as he takes a bow before beginning his rant, "Now my legacy as a student council president speaks for itself, we all know how much work I've put in this past year and if you elect me once more, then I'll do an even greater job than before! Besides, who would even want to vote for that joke of a human?!"

Jolyne glances up from her notes as she realizes Evan is going off script from what he sent in beforehand. A part of her wants to stop this but the other stronger part of her wants to see how this turns out.

"The guy never shaves yet still only has peach fuzz on his face, you'd think he was some anime club reject the way he always has his hair cover his eyes, his fashion sense is totally wack, we all know the books he tries to sell are full of lies, the music he makes was meant to be tossed in the trash, and he's more flakey than the school's cinnamon rolls!" Evan continues.

"The school was better before he joined last year," Evan remarks, "So why even want his ugly mug as your student council president when you can have a hot stud such as myself as your president!"

In the bleachers, Elizabeth tries to hold back a laugh at Evan calling himself a 'hot stud'.

"That's all for my end of the speech," Evan remarks as he smugly adjusts his collar.

"I see, well then we shift over to see what X is going to say," Jolyne Joggers remarks.

"Thank you Thank you," X replies as he takes a look at the script he wrote before ripping it up.

"Now Evan sure said a lot about me just now, too bad it was all a bunch of malarkey," X begins,

"Nobody even knows what that word is!" Evan interrupts.

"Oh please Evan, we all just had to hear your annoying voice for so long, how about you hush up so we can let our ears not be in pain?" X suggests.

"C'mon!"

"You like to go on & on about how the school was better before I joined it," X remarks before smirking, "But I do wonder, who was the student council president last year? Surely they'd have more of a say on how the school is instead of a 'anime club reject' like myself."

"Th-that's not important!" Evan yells.

"Now why does Evan want to discredit me so much? Is it because I'm as awful as he claims or is it because he's compensating for something?" X questions, "We all know he'd be nothing if he didn't have his friends following along with his whims and desires."

Hearing that, Bernard, Georgia, Victor, and Trisha feel a small sense of validation from those words.

"Yeah right!" Evan snarls.

"And you wanna hear the crazy thing?" X says into the mic.

"Wait, don't-" Evan panics.

"He keeps begging me for my help!" X laughs, "I've always refused so now he's throwing a tantrum, that's all there is to it."

"Now hold on! I wasn't begging him or anything-" Evan tries to defend himself as the crowd is laughing.

Giving up on defending himself, Evan goes to yelling insults at X, "You really think you're gonna win this whole thing by spouting nonsense!"

"I don't really care about that, I'm just trying to have some fun," X remarks, "You're the one who's getting all fired up about this-"

Before anyone can react, Evan slaps X across the face as hard as he can, leaving a mark where he got slapped. Everyone is silent for a second, even Evan as he realizes what he just did.

"You really thought you did something there?" X Locke questions.

X takes a step towards Evan, Evan tries to take a step back but he trips and falls onto the stage's floor.

"Being the student council president must have made you think you were something special," X remarks as he begins to walk closer to Evan, "Yet that's the only reason people have tolerated you for so long. You think if you didn't have that role you so desperately cling to that anyone would care about you? Face it, you're just an afterthought to everyone here, and you always will be. Without it, you have nothing of value. You're nothing."

Evan tries to shuffle away but X grabs him by the shirt and leans in close, "I thought I warned you, Dixon, about what happens when you try to fuck around."

Evan is shaking as X finishes his sentence with a smile on his face, "You're bound to find out."

Evan closes his eyes, preparing to get attacked, but X just drops him on the ground and walks off the stage.

"Sorry but I don't like touching wet garbage for too long," X remarks as he shakes Evan's sweat off his hands, "Anyone got a paper towel?"

The whole gym erupts in euphoria over what just went down, and that for the first time in their life, a mandatory assembly wasn't completely boring.

"Well then, since violence is against our school guidelines," Jolyne begins to say, "Evan Dixon is hereby eliminated from the running."

After hearing those words, Evan faints. Bernard & Georgia go over to check if he's okay.

"Which means that winning by default," Jolyne Joggers states, "X Locke is our new student council president."

Hearing those words, X hesitantly remarks, "Wait what?"

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