Infelicitous Bliss

Every now and then good things come to fruition, but what is a mundane man supposed to do when something extraordinarily good transpires. This is something Adam Everett started to ponder when one day he opened a small ebony book crowded with pages and something else entirely; Bills were hidden between the pages, but something stopped Adam from retrieving the money. It would surely be wrong to take the money without reading the story inside. Between each page is two one-hundred dollar bills, and that times the one-hundred pages denotes there is at least twenty-thousand dollars inside.

For a normal person reading this would take merely an hour, but Adam grew up without much edification. A mother was notably absent in his life, and he had always believed that she probably didn’t want him in hers. He lived with his Dad until he was sixteen years of age. His father was not a very good person, but he wasn’t abusive either. When he asked about his mother the man simply sent him on his way. The only reason Adam learned to read at all emanated from television, and he gleaned information from labels on the potation he had to bring to his father.

Adam decided to finally open the book and started to slowly siphon the information that was inside. Inside was what appeared to be a woman’s thoughts throughout her life. It seems like she is a barkeep in the locale. The pages begin to talk about a man she was seeing, but started to show some worry when it came to having kids with him. The woman had some health issues that concerned her apparently. In detail the woman described the marriage ceremony, and it must’ve been good considering the words used. The next few pages described briefly that she was headed to the hospital to give birth.

As Adam flipped to page fifty-six things became quite strange; It seems that the writing has changed slightly as if someone else was writing at this point. The new writer dropped someone’s name -LeeAnne. It seems the new writer was very close to the original owner. The new writer described in detail how happy he was with her, and that he writes this hoping that when she got out of the hospital that she would see it. The final relevant page was the fifty-eighth of the book. All of the pages after are filled with recipes, but one of them seemed to be ripped out. The fifty-eighth had the name of a place.

The location was somber, but comely in a sense incomprehensible to most. Through the gate he could see a cemetery. Why would the book take him here? He walked to exactly where he was told, and finally learned why he was taken here. There was a grave adorned with the photo of a petite blonde woman, and her name matched the one in the notebook -LeeAnne Everett. There was a small oak box resting next to the grave with Adam’s name on it. He opened the box to find one final page with matching rips and all.

“Hi I’m not sure if we’ll meet, but we were supposed to.” read the page “Just know that if I’m not, I love you.” Confused by what he was reading he decided to press on “I have entrusted my life savings into this notebook, if Hank is faithful he will give it to you when you leave the nest.” He was unsure how this should have affected him, but it seemed that a weight was lifted off of his shoulders. It seems his mother died giving birth to him, and his father spread the bills to keep him reading. The area seemed naturally brighter, and in that instant he decided that the book itself was the best thing that had ever happened to him; He finally had some closure. No longer crestfallen, he took his twenty-thousand -and for the first time he thought about his future- he decided to quit his dead end job, and enroll into a college.