Riley Gendreau
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A World Where Every Vote Matters: Pt1 (TG-Queen)
🕑 Added 2024-08-14 02:43:49 +0000 UTCFunMeYay's monthly commission for August 2024
It was election season, and this was the first year Ally was able to partake, although she wasn’t excited about it in the least bit, her parents on the other hand were super excited and took her to get registered as soon as she turned eighteen.
Ally’s parents were the kind of people who not only believed every vote counted, but that it was each person's duty to vote. That was fine and all, but Ally didn’t feel the same way. It was her belief that her county didn't count the votes of people like her.
They only counted the votes of the elites, which only voted for corrupted pieces of shit that are only interested in helping the elite stay on top, and never about helping anyone, or doing what a majority of the people actually want.
Then the whole time the people who get elected become rich and make laws that make life harder for the middle and lower classes. She hated it, she thought the system was broken and really wanted no part of it.
That caused quite a few arguments with her parents, who wouldn’t even hear her side or listen to her points. They stuck by everyone needs to vote, and that it only seems rigged because young people don’t see a point in voting.
So in the end, Ally loses the argument with her parents and is forced to tag along with them the next day and head to the polls to vote. Dinner was quiet because Ally was upset about being forced to do something she didn’t believe in.
After dinner, she quickly went up to her room to head to bed. She might as well just go to sleep and get it over with, after all, if her vote didn’t matter then all she was really doing was wasting time to go write on a piece of paper, which while annoying wasn't the end of the world.
Ally went to the bathroom to use the toilet, wash her face and teeth, and change into her pajamas. When she came out she sat on her bed and prepared to crawl up to the pillows and fall into a blissful slumber, but before she could someone cleared her thoughts.
An unknown voice coming from who knows where in her room scared the daylights out of her. Ally looked around and didn’t see anyone, so she yelled demanding whoever was there to show themselves.
Ally hears a voice slap her head and scold herself for getting caught, then from thin air, a tiny little fairy girl, with pink hair, and a long poofy white dress appears in front of Ally’s face. She was floating and holding a magic wand.
Ally was wondering how the hell she jumped into a fairy tale. Ally then asked the fairy what she was doing in there, and more importantly why she was spying on her. The fairy wagged her finger and said she wasn’t spying on Ally.
She was here because she was supposed to grant one wish per night, as it was her new job, and as she was looking for someone to help, she felt Ally’s strong emotions towards her current problem, and that drew the fairy here.
Ally raised her eyebrow. She asked the fairy if she was really going to grant a wish for her. The fairy smiled and said she sure was, she then told Ally to simply speak her wish and it’ll happen, that is as long as it’s not violent or bad.
Ally should have thought about it for more than a few seconds, a free wish meant she could have anything. She could become one of the elites she felt ran the world, but instead, she went with the first thing that came to her mind.
She wished that whatever she wrote on her ballot tomorrow became true, no matter how crazy or illogical. The fairy thinks for a moment, and can’t find any reason not to grant it. She flies up to Ally and bops her hand with her wand.
The wand glows, then the glowing moves into Ally’s hand, before eventually vanishing again. The fairy confirms that her wish has come true, and whatever she writes on her ballot tomorrow will come true.
The fairy reminds Ally that nothing violent or awful will happen, and then warns Ally to be very careful with what she writes, as it could completely change the world. She then smiles and says her goodbyes.
She used magic to make herself vanish and presumably left. Ally walks around her room waving her arm in all the empty spaces just to make sure, and after not finding a trace of an invisible fairy, she goes to bed.
As soon as she closed her eyes, she woke up in the morning. It was so strange she never slept like that. She sat up and looked at her hand. She looked at her hand, perhaps it wasn’t instant, maybe that whole thing with the fairy was some strange dream.
It had to be right. Fairies didn’t exist, and there was no way it granted her the ability to make whatever she wrote on her ballot come true. It may have been a dream, but one thing about it was a good idea.
Instead of casting a normal vote, Ally should just write what she thinks about it. She wondered what she should write, maybe something political, or just offensive. She thought about it as she pulled out the cutest clothes that screamed election.
Yes, despite not wanting to be there, she was still going to dress to impress and show people with style what she was up to. After getting dressed she went downstairs to eat breakfast with her parents.
They noticed she was in a better mood than yesterday, and were sitting there semi-smug because they thought they had gotten through to her and convinced her that this was important. Little did they know she still thought this was a joke, and was preparing to make it a bigger one.
The three of them get into the car and head over to the voting location an hour in town. Once they arrived, Ally got even more annoyed. There was a massive line that stretched several blocks long. So not only did she have to be here, she’d be spending hours just waiting.
She and her family got in line and waited. It took a few minutes for the place to open, and once it did, it surprisingly went faster than Ally expected, although it still took an hour and a half just for her to get into the building.
Once she was inside someone came to her, checked her driver's license, and then brought her to a privacy booth and handed her a ballot to fill out. Ally sat there staring down at it, the options were rubbish at best, and pathic at best.
She was fully set on writing something on it, instead of picking a candidate, but she still wasn’t sure what message would be worth it. Then it hit her, she truly believed the people should be able to vote on matters, instead of picking one corrupt person from each place to represent them.
So she decided to write in big thick letters. “Everyone should be able to vote on everything.” She covered most of the ballot leaving on the little bubbles she was supposed to fill in blank. She took the ballot and slipped it into the secure ballot box within her booth.
She left the building feeling quite satisfied. She meets up with her parents and the three of them head out to do some shopping and other fun stuff while they wait for the voting to end and for them to count and release the results tonight.
Later that night, her parents and older brother were sitting in front of the television eagerly waiting for the election results. Her brother for some reason was just as bad about voting as their parents, Ally had no idea why, maybe a few extra years of them bugging him broke him.
Either way, when they asked her to join them and wait, she lied and said she was too tired from all the excitement. She told them she’d find out in the morning, she then said she loved them and went upstairs to go to sleep. She didn’t think anything would be different in the morning, but little did she know that the fairy really did grant her wish, and everything was about to change.
Comments
FunMeYay
It’s a good start to expand on. Can’t wait to see Ally experience pure democracy.
Riley
I said that myself, but I know whats coming and I think it's going to be fun, C:
last_of_workers
Hmmm, not bad, but having only one part, I can’t say anything specific... in principle, as a foundation for the second and subsequent parts, this episode is quite good, but on its own it doesn’t represent anything particularly interesting... in general, I’m waiting for the continuation!
