Elections!

Once upon a time, there lived a Peppers family in Singapore. The Peppers family had 4 kids, Paul Andrew Peppers, Wilson Peppers, Steven De Peppers and adopted child Sean Dexter Andy respectively in descending age. They are like a dysfunctional family; can't live with each other, having different views and opinions all the time. However, the irony is the fact that they had lived with each other since young. Paul Andrew Peppers is the eldest, being the most upright child, having utmost integrity for all to see and can be considered the smartest in the family. The other siblings definitely do not see eye to eye with Paul, however they were individualistic in their principles and views enough to be unable to be united against their brother.

The day came, when both of their parents needed to take a break to go overseas for a 4 weeks vacation. They needed to entrust even more responsibilities to one of their children during their absence. Paul, being the oldest and the most matured son, had been faithfully taking charge of part of the family's finances; collecting the finances from their parents, taking a tax cut from what he collected, for himself, then distributing the rest to his brothers for their monthly allowances. All this while, this matter alone has already caused discomfort among the other brothers already, however Paul's mother agreed and their father has been quiet on this matter or on every matter that happens in the family, it remains vague whether the father had actually bothered about the family, but he did whatever is required of a father to the family without fail.

The mother then decided that each of them had to fill up a special form that she'll draft out and distribute to them. She'll decide who will take care of the family as the head of the family during their impending absence. Without much thought, the responsibility of handing out the forms fell into Paul's hands, and Paul being enthusiastic about everything important, started giving out the forms as each of them came to him at times when they were free to fill up the form. Apart from filling up the forms, they were each given 5 mins to explain to their mother why they were the most trustworthy candidates to be bestowed upon with such responsibilities. Not surprisingly, the father preferred to stay out of this matter and kept silent.

2 days later, Wilson came to doublecheck if the form he had filled up had been submitted to their mother, but she denied receiving his form. Furious, Wilson confronted Paul and demanded that he better know what's good for him and produce the form he had submitted earlier. Paul, being the one to collect back the forms after they had been filled up, denied having any recollections of receiving his form. Wilson then proceeded on in an interrogative way that his girlfriend was with him when he filled up and handed in the form, so his girlfriend can be his eye witness on that day. Paul responded instead of reacting to Wilson, that he will go check if he had been holding on to Wilson's form, simultaneously, he suggested to Wilson that he could also go back and check his bag if he had been holding on to it. Wilson perceived that Paul was trying to be funny with him and jumped to conclusions that Paul deliberately withheld his right to fight for the opportunity to be the head of the family. Unknown to Wilson, on the actual day, Paul was doing a FSV project halfway and had left the video camera on the table from a distance and had captured Wilson's every single movement. It revealed that Wilson had actually put the form into his file while his girlfriend had to take a call and Paul was replying to a SMS. When told the next day that he had put his form in his file, Wilson being unexpectedly unamazed said ok and that he will go back and check his file.

Above is a clear indication that Wilson had the intention to set up Paul, but Wilson was quick enough to apologise to their mother and dismissed it as a small issue because he had a long day before collecting the form and stress had got the better of him. Paul then commented to their mother that Wilson had intention of smearing his reputation of a responsible son and had purposefully did what he did. Currently, all the other brothers had a past undesirable record. Steven slandered against Paul accusing him of pocketing more money than usual before distributing allowances to them, however all these accusations were unfounded and he had been paying fines to Paul to compensate him, causing Steven's savings to run out fast. Sean was no better, he had previously taken naked pictures of their maid who was working for the Peppers family, thus it was found out later and the maid was sent back. It remains to be seen if Paul was really the only son who had been righteous, honest and with the highest integrity or it's just that he is smart enough to cover his tracks. Now, Paul is trying his best to put Wilson down while Wilson is trying to play down the whole saga. Paradoxically, the mother works for her sons so that her sons can serve her better. The "Candidate" will be chosen over this weekend and the father is still keeping quiet...