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1st Floor Lobby- Sunday afternoon

Annie was feeling much better today than she had yesterday, which honestly, she preferred. After listening to radio, she'd scratched some ideas off her list of things to try. Baked goods were out, for instance. Quinn did that, and if Caroline was doing that, too, forget it. Besides, Annie wanted to reach out to the people who couldn't be swayed by delicious calories.

In the early afternoon, she'd gone to the lobby and set up her table. It was pretty low-key. Besides a glittery poster on the wall behind her and some fliers and lot of colorful buttons on the bright red plastic tablecloth (better to catch people's attention), that was it.

Oh, and the sign attached to the front of the table:

HELP ME HELP YOU
What do you want from your rep? I'm listening.

[So very open. And I am going to the gym for like an hour, but don't think I won't be trying to return pings from the bike. I saw someone checking FB from the treadmill yesterday.]

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"That I don't think that I could get away with because there are laws," Annie told him plainly. "That's a tiny bit outside Student Council's jurisdiction."

Also because smoking was a disgusting habit but Annie wasn't going to say that.

"But, you wanted to know what I wanted from my rep," Nathan said, pointing to the sign. "You telling me that you can't do it? Maybe someone else can!"

She was not impressed by Nathan. She decided to just put it all out there.

"On that one, I'm thinking no," Annie said. "I'm gonna level with you, Nathan- You're Nathan, right?- I'm here to listen to your suggestions and see what I can do, but there are limits. It's illegal for anyone under eighteen to buy cigarettes, which means it's illegal for people under eighteen to smoke. That doesn't mean people won't do it, but it'd be illegal and irresponsible to put a smoking area inside a high school dorm building when some of the students are very much under eighteen. Even the administration couldn't do that." Maybe. "So I'm sorry. But I have agreed to look into all your other concerns, which I doubt any other candidate would do."

She didn't know that for sure.

"Wow, that was...a lot of bullshit right there, wasn't it?" Nathan said, almost impressed. "I got a cupcake from Quinn. She didn't lecture me."

He wasn't being annoying to her though.

"I'm gutted."

"It was not! I'm just stating facts," Annie protested.

"In a very hurtful fashion!" Nathan replied, sighing and holding his heart. "You could have been nicer. I've got feelings too! And you didn't even have free food to ease the blow."

"Oh, please, how was that hurtful?" she asked. "I didn't say anything you probably couldn't find on Google."

"I came to you with very real desires and you just crushed them under the heel of your shoe!" Nathan crowed, shaking his head. "I might not vote for you now."

He was just being an ass.

"Well, I'm not going to lie to you. That should be a point in my favor," she decided.

"I do hate liars," Nathan agreed grudgingly. "What are you promising anyway? Don't all you politicians have some campaign aims? Lower taxes, stop the war, not be all gross with your underlings?"

"I want everyone to be able to have an actual voice represented by Student Council, and to give back to the school. Raise awareness on social issues, start a tutoring program, ~~get rid of the black mold~~, and so on," she told him. "Though I'm not going to be all gross with my underlings, either."

"That sounds fucking boring," Nathan accused, making a face. "You planning on anything fun? Anything interesting to those of us that don't give a flying fuck about social issues?"

"Senior Skip Day." Because she loved that idea and had a feeling she was going to be using it a lot on the ones who didn't care.

That did get Nathan's attention. He beamed widely. "Fucking sold! I'd be even more sold if there was food involved but that's good enough for me. Vote achieved!"

Annie smiled broadly. "I thank you for your support," she told him.

Nathan gave her a rather idiotic thumbs up before he ambled away, getting back on track to get into town so he could start his day.

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