The Lottery-Ch 1

Penelope Garcia sat looking out her apartment window wondering what she was going to do with her life, she lost her last job when the company closed and she was a week away from losing her apartment. She looked down at the lottery ticket in her hand and brought it up to her lips and kissed it and said, "you have to be the winning ticket, you just have to be".

She looked at her watch and said, "it's almost time for the winning lottery numbers, she headed over toward her couch and sat down and picked up her remote and turned the tv on. She sat back and closed her eyes hoping that once the winning numbers were called that everything in her life would change for the better".

Derek Morgan walks into his house and takes his jacket off and hangs it up on the coat rack and walks into the kitchen and wraps his arms around his on again off again girlfriend Savannah". She turns around and said, "welcome home honey, I hope that you're hungry", he smiled and said, "I'm starved but how did you get in here"?, she said, "wellllll your super let me inside, I hope that it was alright"?, he took a sip of his beer and mumbled, "yeah it's alright".

Savannah said, "are you tired, because if you are I can give you a massage", he said ,"nah I'm good but thanks", she turned around and started taking dinner up. She walked it over to the table and sat it down in front of him and said, "here you go my love", he looked up at her and said,
"thanks, it looks delicious".

She sat down beside him and said, "Derek honey we need to talk", he looked up at her and said, "oh really, what about this time"?, she put her hand on his and said, "I'm not getting any younger and I know that we have been seeing each other for a while again and I want to settle down and start a family".

Derek took a deep breath and said, "Savannah, I'm not ready to settle down and I know that we have talked about this before and you said that you understood". She stood up and said, "well I don't, I want to marry you and have your babies, what's so wrong with that"?, he stood up and said, "there is nothing wrong with you wanting to get married or starting a family, it's just that I'm not the man in that family photograph that you are wanting".

She said, "I know you love me Derek", he laughed and said, "Savannah tonight is not the night for this fight, I just need", she said, "what you need is to get a fucking job and settle down". He laughed and said, "I do have a job, I'm a police officer that specializes on protective details and you know that".

She threw up her hand and said, "that's it Derek, you make your choice now, either we get married or we're over", he took a big sip of his beer and said, "well sweetheart if you are putting it that way, GET OUT". She pushed him and said, "that's it, we're through" before heading toward the door.

Derek laughed and said, "boy do you have that shot right", after she left he cleaned up the dishes and pulled out the cold pizza from the night before and carried it over to the couch and sat down and turned on the tv. He took a bite of pizza and watched as the woman from the lotto came on and said, "alright it's Wednesday night and you know what that means".

Derek rolled his eyes and said, "yeah it's time to get some poor suckers hopes up that they are going to win", the lady said, "alright tonights winning lotto amount the largest in Virginia history at a whopping $500,000.00". Derek took a sip of beer and said, "damn maybe I should have bought a ticket", he then chuckled as he sat back against the couch.

Penelope sighed as she closed her eyes and said, "please please let me win", she opened her eyes and watched as the first colored ball was pulled and the woman said, "the first number on tonights lotto is 35". Penelope smiled as the woman said, "the second number is 20", Penelope couldn't believe it, she actually had the first two numbers.

The lotto lady said, "lotto number three is 18", she took a deep breath and said, "oh my god, oh my god", the next number was called as the woman said, "the next number is 47". The announcer said, "and the final number tonight in the winning lotto isssss" and Penelope watched as the last ball stopped.

Penelope watched and listened as the announcer said, "10, so ladies and gentlemen the winning lottery numbers are 35, 20, 18, 47 and 10", she jumped up and down and started screaming when she saw all of those numbers on her ticket. She sat down and said, "oh my god, oh my god, I just won the lottery".

She picked up her cell and dialed a number and after a few rings she said, "OH MY GOD JAYJE, I JUST WON THE LOTTERY"