Title: Elections Disclaimer: I don't own star wars, I make no money. Summery: It's student council elections time in GFFA! Author: Liz Skywalker E-mail: lizskywalker@hotmail.com A/N: Look at the end. "Will everybody please calm down?" The teacher's voice rang out. The assembled high-school students grumbled and took their seats. "Thank you, now as all of you know, student council elections are coming up soon. Here is the offices: President, Vice President and Secretary. President can only be an 11th grader, Vice President can be 10th and 11th and Secretary can be from 9th to 11th. Now, get nominating!" "Camie, are you going to run?" The voice came from behind her. "Oh, Fixer. I don't know. I can only run for secretary, you know. I don't want to be it, but I have a feeling people will nominate me any way." "Well, I'm going to run for secretary. Hey, Luke!" He called to the passing form. "Hey Fix, Camie. Was up?" Luke asked them. "The ceiling. Seriously, are you going to run?" "No." "Why not? You have a chance of winning." "So does the other 15 kids in our class." "Yeah, but Luke, you've got charisma." Camie insisted. "That may be so, but I'm still not running." Luke crossed his arms. Something in him whispered that it was more than charisma and of course he wanted to be on the Council. He shivered, some how knowing he could make everyone vote for him. "Oh well." They all walked to their next class. Later by the nomination sheets: "Okay! Who signed me up for running???" Camie yelled down the hall of the high school. A few people looked down, but no one confessed. "At least you could make it look a little like my handwriting!" Camie took her carver and neatly crossed a line through the Aurek-Besh letters and rewrote her name. The names for secretary now read: Fixer, Camie, Deak, and Windy. Later outside the student lounge: "You'd think, with this weather, we'd get out for the cold!" Windy complained. "Aint that cold out here, Wind." Luke said, shrugging his shoulders. "It would be considered hot any where else." "It's 100 degrees standard! It's as cold as night!" Windy complained. "Yeah, whatever. Got a campaign slogan?" "Yeah! Vote for me for secretary!" "That's so plain." "And you could think of better?" " 'Course. Here's one..." Later in the student lounge: "Wouldn't it be cool if we all ran?" Deak asked no one in particular as he went over Huttese irregular verbs. "Why?" Jibs asked, looking up from his fiction pad he was reading. "Well,...it just would!" "I was thinking of running." Adiza confessed as she flipped through her Huttese note-pad, looking for a journal entry. "If the whole class runs, I'll run." "I'll run if you run, Adiza." Luke said. "Okay, it's official! The whole 9th grade is running for secretary!" Deak yelled and went to get his carver. Later in the High School Hall: "Hey Benni, you know you're running?" Luke asked. "I am?! That's news to me." Benni said as she struggled to keep a grip on her books. "Deak signed everyone up." Luke explained. "Why don't we all just run under one name: The 9th grade! Vote for the 9th grade for secretary!" "That's a good idea! And I'll write down the new kids' name, you know, the new one that'll come next year who just tried out." "What's her name? Sarai?" "No, Adiza. The old Adiza went nuts when she found out." "I don't blame her." Later in the library which doubled as the student council room: "I'd like to welcome all of you to Election 15! Starting from the bottom, let's have the nominees for secretary come up and make their short, and I mean it, speeches." One by one, the 9th graders got up and said why they should be elected and what they would do. This ranged from good speeches to little 'I was nominated, and this is cool, just don't vote for me.' At the end of this, Luke got up. "There's one more nominee. It's the entire 9th grade! We're running as a whole." The whole room burst into cheers. The teacher hushed and then announced the speeches for Vice President. A Few Minutes Later: The teacher opened the ballots and started counting out the votes. "The President for next year's student council is Elanna Weiner. The Vice President is Shoshan Butler. And, drum roll please, the secretary for the year 15 is... Well, who do you think it is? Don't look at me. My elections are tomorrow. Yes, this is loosely based around my student council elections. They are elected the year before at the end of the year. I'm running for secretary. All the characters are based on my friends. Luke is me, Benni is my best friend. The Adizas is true also. I signed her up. If any of my school friends are reading this, HI GUYS! Anyway, wish me bad luck on the elections tomorrow!