One shots

Mother's Day

The students of Francoise Dupont School had prepared a special event for this year's mother's day. They had invited all their families to support their mothers in a self organised pageant, where each student could nominate their mum for a special category.

They had chosen the usual attributes, most people would expect in a mother.

The most caring.

The most supporting.

The most creative.

The best cook.

And another category had been added without their knowledge, but they were about to find out about this only when it was read out loud by the headmaster Mister Damocles.

Said man was just climbing the few steps to be on the small stage and reached for the microphone.

"Welcome, dearest mothers, students and of course all your family members who came here to support you. At first I want to introduce all the categories, your children nominated you for, being:

The most caring.

The most supporting.

The most creative.

The best cook.

And last, a category none of the students knew about either and which was added by the sponsor of our prices, which is called:

The hottest mum

The audience gasped, wondering who might have been so bold to announce a category like that and who of their wives, sisters or daughters would be elected.

The participating women were nervous all of a sudden. And they also weren't certain if winning was good or bad. If they lost everybody would be looking at them with pity, yet if they won, they might be called slutty or similar names, due to being so shameless to look hot at a school event.

The students were shocked too. After all, they were the ones who had to pick said woman. While the girls started a wild discussion, the boys only turned deeply red and muttered to themselves. It was more difficult for them as none would dare to call their own mum hot, but they also were too well raised to say this about one of their friends' mothers.

When the discussion turned into yelling and shouting, the door to there classroom they were in opened and the person who stood in the opening made them all be silent in an instant.

While they stared at the man, who didn't need to introduce himself, he informed them about his plan and asked them for their help. When he was finished, the boys sighed in relief and the girls were excitedly chattering.

The afternoon went by quickly and after all guests had tasted every sort of cake and pie, as well as cupcakes, macaroons and eclairs, the principal stepped onto the stage again, this time holding five envelopes in which the winner of each category was written on a note.

There were no surprises, as Marlena Cesaire made the best cook, Sabine Dupain-Cheng was the most caring, Anarka Couffaine the most supportive and even Audrey Bourgeois was elected as the most creative.

Then Mister Damocles made a gesture to someone and a moment later, Adrien stepped onto the stage. He took over the microphone from the principal and cleared his throat then said with a sheepish grin.

"This is all a little surprising, even to me, though I am over the moon due to the reason I am standing here. Nominated for the category 'Hottest Mum' was just one person, yet she has no idea so far, that she has been and she certainly wouldn't believe who nominated her for it.