Chapter 5 of My Attempt at a Novel

Chapter 5: I Dream of Broadway
Broadway Lorimer rubbed her eyes. “Morning again?” she said, as she rose slowly from her bed, which was now distraught with the covers and pillows all over the bed and floor. “Ugh, it is Monday once again. Whoever invented Monday must not have dreamed that it would have become such a day of sheer misery for everyone who has a job or goes to school,” said Broadway Lorimer as she moved towards her closet and grabbed a suit and a suitable pair of pants. “Well, I guess I should be happy that I at least have a job,” said Broadway Lorimer, as she changed into her work clothes. Broadway walked towards her door and gave a quick tug at the doorknob, obviously opening the door. As she exited, she did a few more morning stretches, preparing for another one of those dreaded Mondays. After her daily morning stretches, she walked in a slouched manner towards the first floor bathroom. She again gave a quick, gentle tug at the brass doorknob, which obviously, once again, opened the bathroom door, allowing her to waltz inside. Once inside of her small, tiled bathroom, Broadway Lorimer hastily grabbed her toothbrush, wet the bristles a slight bit by just barely turning the sink on, then applied a few thick gooey blobs of her Colgate toothpaste, which was called “Cool Breeze” or something similar to that. She scrubbed each and every tooth, careful not to miss a spot, remembering when she had the cavity at age 14 and had to have her wisdom teeth pulled. After what she estimated was two minutes, Broadway Lorimer yanked the finely bristled toothbrush out of her mouth, shoved it into a cabinet above the bathroom sink, and grabbed a small bathroom cup from the same cabinet. Broadway Lorimer proceeded to fill the teensy tiny bathroom cup with the tap water which ran steadily out of the shiny metal faucet. Broadway Lorimer gulped down the tap water, swirled it around her mouth once… twice… a third time… and again a fourth time, just for good luck and good riddance. She tossed the cup into the small bathroom garbage can as if she was playing in the WNBA. Broadway Lorimer was a college basketball player with big hope for the future. She dreamed of one day playing on a team in the WNBA. One day, all of her dreams were shattered because of the “accident”.
*FLASHBACK*
Announcer: And Lorimer goes for the three pointer… and it is good!
Crowd: Woo hoo! Lor – i – Mer! Lor- i- Mer! Lor-i-Mer!
Announcer: This Harvard women’s team this year has just been incredible, all of these wins, though, seem to be coming straight from Broadway Lorimer, a crowd favorite and almost certainly the star player on this Harvard women’s team. Wait a minute, there is a guy rushing out of the stands, what is he doing? He has some sort of golf club in his hand. He just darted past security and down right into the court. He is going up to Broadway Lorimer, she is the star of the team, and OH MY GOD! HE JUST HIT HER ON BOTH KNEES WITH THE GOLF CLUB! How could he do that? Security is now finally able to get a hold of him. And now, there are loud boos coming from the crowd, the man with the golf club is having trash thrown at him by the fans, and the campus security guards are escorting the man out to their facility on the other site of the Harvard campus. And the Harvard University crowd is cheering as this terrible, terrible man is being sent off to the police station across campus. But now we all stand in quiet shock and the atrocity that has just occurred.
(Broadway Lorimer gets up out of her own will.)
Announcer: This must be a miracle! Broadway Lorimer, who was just viciously struck by a golf club wielding fan, is getting up out of her own will. I think she may be saying that she is okay. Yes, she is definitely saying she is okay, she is giving the thumbs up sign, we take that to mean that she is okay. So, wow, Broadway Lorimer was just struck very viciously with a solid metal golf club and is getting up out of her own will, with no help from anyone else whatsoever, and is saying she is totally fine. Well, I hope the doctors of this team think that Broadway Lorimer is okay too. Oh, wait, I was just handed a memo by one of my associates here at Harvard that says that the golf club wielding man who hit Broadway Lorimer has been identified as 19-year old Ralph Utica, who is a student here at Harvard University. It seems that this Ralph Utica may have been a disgruntled ex boyfriend of Broadway Lorimer’s from several years back who happened to hold a very, very, very, very, very, very…
Other Announcer: We get it Bob.
Announcer: very very very big grudge against Broadway Lorimer due to their very abrupt breakup. What a shame though. If Ralph Utica really respected Broadway Lorimer, who we, as we previously have mentioned several times, was his very estranged ex girlfriend, he would have let her had her own opinion about their mutual relationship, even if it congflicted with his opinion, which hes seems to believe is the correct opinion to have regarding this matter.
Well, let us hope for the best of health for Brodaway Lorimer and for a wquick recovery, or prefferably no recovery to be necessary whatsoever.
Broadway’s test results were much less than optimistic. She was diagonosed with a torn left novenualar gland and a shatter left aimoliar gland. These injureies would keep Broadway Lorimer out of basketball, for two years, unless a miracle of some sort occurred for Broadway Lorimer. Of course, no such miravcle occurred, actually the worst case scenario ended up happening. Brpoadway Lorimer was sidelined for three years due to her multiple career shattering injuries, and if the small, microscopic chance that she ever did return to pursue a baksetball career in the WNBA, her talent would have greatly diminished due to her injuries. Broadway decided to quit basketball, giving up on her child hood dream of becoming a professional women’s basketball player in the WNBA and also eventually making the United States of America Women’s Basketball (College and Professional- WNBA) Dream Team in the Olympic Games. She decided to pursue a career in politics. While still in Harvard, she majored in law and minored in economics. Broadway Lorimer received her Harvard degree of law at the very young age of nineteen,
working her butt off to earn enough credits to qualify for a Harvard degree of law. Once she had graduated from the Harvard School of Law, Broadway Lorimer received a job offer from a lawyers firm. She applied for the job and was the winning applicant. Broadway Lorimer was a lawyer for ten months, and at age twenty, she ran for Manhattan City Council and won. She served a two year term and then ran for Borough President. She won the Manhattan Borough President’s race in a landslide. She dropped out of her Manhattan Borough President’s job when the mayoral elections came around, ran in the elections, and this time, Broadway Lorimer just barely won, at age 24. She served a four year term, and then decided to run for Senator. Because of her popularity in the state of New York, and especially New York City, she was elected as a senator of New York at age 28. She served as a New York State Senator for a very slow and boring four years. At age 32, the first year Broadway Lorimer was eligible, Broadway Lorimer chose to declare herself as a candidate in the 2024 Presidential Election, running for the ever popular and ever amazing Democratic Party (Woo! Hoo! Woohoo!). She was chosen to be the Democratic representitive on the ballot for President of the United States of America in the year of 2024. She won the election by just one electoral vote and became the 2nd female president in United States of America’s long and illustrious history (The first being Hillary Clinton, who was president from 2008-2016, that is sooooooo obvious!! GO DEMOCRATS!!) The dream that Broadway Lorimer previously had was her true fate in the future, but before she found out that she was President of the United States, she woke up abruptly.