Living the dream

Authors note: this is a creative story of what i think will happen to Drew Lawson of the Book Game by Walter Dean Myers, after the story ends.

All eyes are on Lawson as he bring the ball down the left side. He fakes right and then makes a quick move across the middle. Now he stop and goes straight up with the ball.. he scores! He scores! And DePaul  Blue Devils win the game. Drew Lawson the second year Blue Devil has just lead his team to their 4^th consecutive win, and come tomorrow DePaul could move up to the 5 spot in the top 25.

“Wow, great game drew”. Said Worrel Clahar in the locker room after the game. Yeah! everyone else chipped in. Drew your leading us to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 6 years. Said coach Purnell.  Let’s keep it up guys and we could earn a 3 spot for the Tourney in March. That’s it that’s what I’ve been waiting for all my life. I just couldn’t stop thinking about the NCAA tournament, I mean it’s march madness the numero uno of college ball.

The next day we were off no practice or nothing, so Worrel me and a few other guys went downtown to watch the Bulls game. I was so excited to watch one of the top point guards in the league Derrick Rose, or D-Rose as some people call him.  The Bulls pulled away in such a good game, it was like I was in it. After that we went to grab some food at McDonalds. You must be thinking McDonalds right now, but come on we’re college students we don’t have money. Me and the guys went on like this for about a week having fun and going to practice, but now it was an hour before game time and it was on.

This game was the last of the regular season and we needed to win, it either meant that we got a solid 3 rank in the tourney, or we fell to a 5. But before that happened we had to defeat 6 ranked Marquette and their star guards vander Blue and Todd Mayo. After it was all said and done we had won the game, not only had I played great but I could feel that everyone wanted it as much as I did. We celebrated that night, but I knew what we still had ahead of us.

It was now that I was the most tired out of the whole season. Sweat was dripping and it was a close game, their team knew I was going to get the ball with only seconds left on the clock. I could hear the announcer speaking as I brought the ball down. He said. All eyes are on Lawson as he bring the ball down the left side. He fakes right and then makes a quick move across the middle. Now he stop and goes straight up with the ball.. he scores! He scores! And DePaul wins the NCAA championship in a terrific overtime thriller one of the best I’ve seen in years maybe ever. Now I just laid there as everyone mobbed the court thinking ” that move gets them every time”.