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Any errors are my fault. I went back and had a nerdgasm over certain paragraphs after they were edited. You have my apologies. There is a lot of detail and it takes time to get to the sex. There will be mistakes feel free to help me improve, by telling me what can be fixed.
My American Dream: Best friends have their dreams fulfilled My American Dream: Best friends have their dreams fulfilled.
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Mathew Moore stood there in silence with a reflective calm, his right palm firmly pressed against the window. He had thought the Columbus Streets would be moving at a faster pace; not on a chaotic level like what he once saw in New York, just a bit busier. He'd been all over the globe researching for his degrees and books, but he never spent so much time in big cities. His college days in Cambridge and Oxford were spent in a type of residential seclusion.
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The last few months were a hell of a time; the election campaign forced Mathew out of his comfort zone. Cleveland and Columbus then into Cincinnati followed by smaller comfortable places, and then repeated again, again and again. The months of campaigning and repetition were now over, and it looked like Mathew would be heading back to the world, of academia. However, his cushy administrative position would not be awaiting his return.
Mathew kept thinking of all the potential good he could have done had he won tonight. Looking at the now darkened reflective glass he saw his business cut dark brown hair, and the navy blue suit that rested like a glove on his tall frame." Could I at least keep the suite after the election?" he thought.
Mathew began to tweak with the lapel pin that had been etched to his blazers for months. He had a sort of idealistic faith in people that could light up a lecture hall. From day one, he believed he could win even though hardly anyone else did. He wasn't supposed to win either; the party simply needed a body in the race. No one else was stupid enough to take on a fortified four term opponent like "Harold Bloom Jr."
Mathew based the likelihood of his winning on his belief that this was the real world, with legitimate concerns; people weren't just going to elect an entrenched name attached to mediocre achievements over the more qualified candidate, were they? The numbers up until the debate a week ago contrasted his idealistic nature.
"Only if the Bloom campaign had agreed to the earlier debates;" Mathew said aloud. Mathew was in his zone when it came to the economy, and it was beginning to show in the polling numbers.
"One more week," Mathew whispered softly. "One more fucking week!" he yelled, punching the wall with his clenched left hand.
Mathew tilted his head to the left of his hotel room, peering at the desk to the side. Resting there mockingly as a symbol of his supposedly unavoidable destiny of failure, was the speech he had written seconds ago. It wasn't the speech he wanted to write tonight.
Mathew had been privately reciting a victory speech in his head for months. It now looked like it was destined to be a private joke.
Just then, a knock came at the door that connected his room to that of his campaign manager. Seconds after the knocking there was a roar of footsteps and chanting in the hallway. "Mat, Mat Mat!" chanted the voice of a unified campaign team.
His cellphone then began to ring.
"Hello," Mathew said.
"This was a fluuuke Professorrr see you in six years." The man said groggily.
"Who is this?"
It sounded like Harold Bloom Jr. "But it couldn't be." Mathew said out loud as the phone buzzed angrily in his ear signaling the end of the call.
The connecting door opened, his campaign manager walked in standing in the middle of the room. Outside supporters were still chanting, getting louder by the second. He stood there with the look of knowing defeat replaced with hope.
The somber appearing campaign manager, with his chiseled features and stylish suit draped over his ebony skin, halted with a pause in his litigator's style. Then words came like lightening. "Mathew we won your, I mean our county."
'What was he expecting?' Mathew thought. Winning his county was better than he should have expected. "That's good news. I guess that's good news, its better.... Erick thanks for running this campaign for me, you're a good friend." Mathew said speaking his thoughts aloud.
Erick had been his best friend all his life, he was the one that convinced Mathew to come back and teach at the college in their small Ohio town. Actually, he had encouraged Mathew to do pretty much every risky thing in his life: choosing to graduate high school at sixteen leaving his friends and home behind for Harvard, applying for the Rhode scholarship, the vacant President's position at the college in their hometown while he was just thirty years old, and at just thirty two competing for the United States Senate.
Erick's somber poker face suddenly turned into a wide grin. "No, I'm a great friend and I want you to remember that when your sitting in the Senate, Senator Elect Moore."
Mathew's eyebrows rose as he said. "If this is another one of your practical jokes Erick, you fucking lawyers! I swear to God if this is a joke, I'm going to kill you, where you stand."
Erick moved closer to Mathew as he began to bear hug him, he whispered into the taller Mathew's ear. "It's not smart for a Senator to make death threats. That's what I'm for."
Mathew felt light like he could faint "By how much?" Mathew asked as his toned white skin momentarily turned pale.
"Fox is saying one percent CNN and everyone else is saying about four," stated Erick.