"Money is energy...Accept it!"

Linda was excited to start a new chapter of her life. She had taken a three year sabbatical after completing her Bachelors degree. Now she was starting her Masters in Biology in a few weeks. During the past three years, she had worked as a research assistant at a lab and paid off half of her educational debt. However, she knew higher education and academics were always her passion.

She had just shifted in with her roommate Sara into a two bedroom apartment near the University. Her roommate Sara was also pursuing her higher education, specifically, a Masters in Biotechnology. In their new apartment, Linda slept on a blanket in the floor of her room. She and Sara still had to furnish their individual rooms and the common living area. They planned to get a living room sofa, dining table with chairs, and twin bed and dresser combo for both of them.

As budget savvy and debt laden students, they decided to go explore furniture at an outlet store. They had explored low cost online furniture outlets like Wayfair and Ikea, but it was still over the budget for their small monthly graduate student stipend. Linda as the master researcher and planner started researching online for local furniture outlets. She reviewed local second hand furniture outlets in Yelp and Google review. She presented her search results to Linda and they narrowed it down to Russ's Furniture Store. It was a twenty minute drive from their apartment.

The following weekend, they drive to Russ's Furniture Outlet around noon. The store owner Russ Cahill was a second generation store owner. His mother ran the store before him successfully. Russ saw the two ladies enter the store. He approached them, "Hey gals, welcome! How can I help you?" Linda says, "Hi, We are looking for twin beds, dressers, living room sofa, and dining table with chairs." "Come on ladies, follow me," says Russ and leads them to the back of the store.

Used mattresses of different shapes, sizes, smell, and color were present in the back. Linda and Sara went to the "Twin" size section and started perusing the mattresses there. Sara frowned and said, "Yikes, there is blood in that mattress." Linda adds on, "Disgusting." They sifted through over fifty twin mattresses hanging from the ceiling rack. Finally, they were able to locate two mattresses. Sara says to Linda, "Unbelievable that we found two mattresses without any tears or blood in this stench of a place." "Halleluiah," replies Linda.

At once, Sara's phone rang. It was a call from her elder sister who lived in a suburban home an hour away from their apartment. After talking with her sister, she informs Linda, "Hey, my sister's friend has a sofa and a dining set which she wants to dispose off. They both are in good condition. She is willing to give them to us for free." Linda was relieved to hear that she would now have to spend money only for her bed mattress and dresser. She got easily happy at any opportunity of saving money.

Linda calls Russ to finalize the payment for the two selected mattresses, and also adds on two box mattresses along with two dressers, in their final purchase. Russ and his helpers load the mattresses and the dressers onto the girls' old truck. Linda and Sara drive away content with their purchases.

After arriving near their apartment, Linda parks the truck very close to the apartment. Both her and Sara lift each mattress one by one inside the apartment. The mattresses were the easier part. The dressers were a different story - It took huge strain and pain for them to handle the dressers. They lifted and carried each dresser for a minute, then took a break for three minutes, and repeated this cycle, until the dressers were inside their apartment. Impressed by this massive feat and display of their physical strength, the ladies decided to treat themselves to pizza.

Later in the evening, Linda lifts her mattress upright and sprays it with Lysol all over. Then she puts a face mask and dusts the mattress vigorously to remove all particles. As she continues to brush the mattress, her room has dust particles all over from the mattress. She continues to further brush the mattress and increases the intensity of her dusting all over the mattress. Sara then hears a "clink" sound and sees a small key fall out from inside her mattress. She puts the key on her window sill and continues dusting. After sanitizing her mattress, she cleans her room, arranges her bed and retires for the night.

Next morning during breakfast, Linda says to Sara, "You won't believe what I found inside my mattress after dusting it. I got this small key." Sara is thrilled and asks to see the key. She says, "Look Linda, the key has something written on it....B9...with a Sigma symbol." "Hmmm....I see it," Linda replies, "I wonder what it means.." Using her internet research savvy mind and having watched enough crime and investigation reality television, Linda types storage lockers with Sigma symbol and presses "enter" to see results. Linda and Sara patiently wait for the next couple of seconds for the results.

Results show a storage company Sigma with many locations. A storage location near Russ's furniture store is also shown. Sara says to Linda, "Hey girlie, what do you think if we go to the sigma storage location near the furniture store and look for a B9 locker?..." Linda replies, "Smart idea....except I don't think this is how it works....Even to enter the storage facility, one needs a separate entry key. Having just the individual storage locker key is not enough these days, girlie . . . Also what if it the locker is owned by a mafia, criminal or a dangerous person? And what if they find out? What will happen to us two?" "You are overthinking this Linda," replies Sara, "All these mafia, criminal business happens in television and movies only.. real life is much different I would think." Sara further says, "Let's just go to the storage location. If someone finds us, we can explain ourselves and say that we are here to return the lost key." After enough convincing, Linda agrees to visit the storage.

Linda and Sara arrive at the Sigma storage, both sweating profusely due to the high temperatures in the afternoon. To her shock, Linda did not see any entry lock to access the storage lockers. "Shit Storage," says Linda as she further observes that the security cameras are covered with tape and not functioning. She and Sara search for locker B9, both wondering what will be inside. A strange calmness and certainty overtook them as they continue to look for the locker. Their earlier fears and concerns are no longer present. Linda says, "Just imagine if we find tons of money, or treasure, or some precious valuables inside the storage locker. This reminds me of the HGTV show Storage Wars. These people bet on unclaimed storage lockers without knowing the contents of it... and sometimes the person with the winning bet get a locker full of valuables...yeah, but there are also some folks who got a locker full of trash....garbage....just imagine...who even puts garbage inside their storage??" Sara replies, "Someone whose mind is not right, duh... I think we are getting too much into the entertainment world of treasures and wealth....maybe we'll find nothing of that sort inside the locker....probably some old furniture based on our luck as perpetual students. " "LOL," replies Linda.

Lo and behold Linda and Sara are in front of locker B9. Sara says, "Lets wish well, and open the locker." The key fits in perfectly and Linda successfully opens the locker. As expected, they see old furniture stacked up to the storage ceiling, and old torn suitcases. They dig in through the furniture and the suitcase. "Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Linda!!! Linda! Come here! I can't believe my eyes, I can't believe it.....," screams Sara. Linda then sees a torn suitcase and inside a zipped pouch within the suitcase, she sees dollars. "Dollars! Dollars! Dollars!!! AAAAGGHHH!!!" Both her and Linda shout. Both are breathing heavily. Linda decides to take an executive call. She says, "Let's take this pouch and exit the storage facility." Both girls immediately leave the facility.

After arriving back to their apartment, the ladies sit on their dining table and place the zippered pouch on the table. They unzip the pouch, and empty its contents on their table. Along with the dollars, Sara notices a small black notebook that was also inside the pouch and shows it to Linda. Linda says, "First things first.....let's do one thing at a time...Let's count the cash first."

"Twenty thousand dollars! Girl, its Twenty thousand dollars... We are rich girl!" says Linda. Twenty thousand dollars is a big amount for these two debt laden poor students who don't even have five thousand dollars in their individual savings account. Sara says, "Girl, yes, we are rich...let's divide up the cash, we each keep ten thousand dollars. We will use it to pay cash for groceries and gas for the next year or two. This will allow us to take significantly lesser debt for our education." "Great thought, I agree.. Let's do so," replies Linda, "This is a gift for us from the universe . . . who knows...somebody knew we needed the cash and guided us.... who knows..."

Sara then gives the small black notebook to Linda. Linda opens the notebook. As she turns the page of the notebook, she finds it is all empty. Thinking that it is an empty notebook, Linda reaches the last page of the notebook. She shows the page to Sara. Both of them cry as they read the sole quote in the last page of the black notebook, "Money is energy . . . Let it flow . . . When it flows, it comes from all directions and in such abundance . . . Accept this energy . . . It is yours."