Ashley, The President, and the Lack of Cell Phones

The scene opens as a middle school aged girl named Ashley heads to school. Her father, a politician, is already at the office so the maid and staff see her off.

Now the scene changes and years have passed. We see this girl, now high school aged coming home from a day at her high school. Once again her father is absent. As she arrived at her apartment her brother meets her in the hall. “I didn’t want to alarm you so I decided to meet you in the hall to tell you. There are a lot of people waiting in the apartment to speak to you. Something has happened.” As Ashley and her brother enter the apartment we see dozens of people crowding the small one bedroom space. This is no surprise party or intervention. We now learn that her father has become President of the United States and there has been a terrorist attack in the city! These people have all come here to tell her that her sister has not been heard of since she left her middle school an hour ago. With access to the city shut down they have come to Ashley for help. Shocked, Ashley asks her brother why he has not yet done anything. “Well, ever since I tried to stage that coup 17 months ago I have no influence or power! I only have this desk job because you gave it to me! It’s up to you now to save our sister!” So Ashley takes off on her mission to find her sister.

Meanwhile, the scene changes and we see her sister getting out of school and going straight to the Whitehouse safe room. But since her dad, the President, has long refused to buy the family cell phones Ashley has no way of knowing this. So Ashley travels needlessly into harms way.

The scene changes again and we see the President notified that Ashley is in the city searching for the very sister that is now safely by his side. The President collapses to the floor in grief. If only he had purchased that family cell phone plan!!