Loren Smith

An Eventful Day

I wasn’t one for luck or chance, but today seems like one of those days. The one where you say “what the heck” and you buy a lottery ticket on your way home. I always believed they were rigged, however, that didn’t stop me, Jamie Patterson, a 22-year old nobody, from stopping at the gas station to buy myself a mega-bowl ticket. The thing about being a nobody is that you never expect anything for yourself, so when I turned on the television to check up on those numbers, you can imagine my surprise. Every single number was right there! I had to rewind to make sure I heard correctly. Rewind, Play. Rewind, Play. I probably looked insane, but sure enough, every single time I pressed play, I heard the same numbers every time. 11, 8, 7, 15, 81, 3. What do I do now? Do I jump up and down? Do I cry? Do I scream? Do I run up and down my street like a madwoman that doesn’t care if she disturbs her neighbors because that’s definitely my preference right now? I composed myself and sat quickly on my cream-colored sofa. Geez! I swear you could’ve heard my bones vibrating in excitement. My whirlwind of emotions led me to pick up my phone and pressing the first contact I saw. Ring! Ring! Ring! Click! “Hey Jamie, excited for our date?”