"Edward Cullen?" A chubby, balding man man calls out my name.
I stand and nod. He tells me to follow and he leads me down a linoleum hall, his heels clacking on the tiles. I thought Tom Cruise was the only man to wear lifts.
He motions me into a room, which I can only assume is his office.
"I'm Aro Muscato-"
"Like the wine?" I blurt out. In my potential millionaire haze, I've lost my filter.
"Sadly, yes." He grins and I know he's not offended. "Anyway, I see from your paperwork that you believe you have the winning Powerball ticket?"
"Yes."
"I need to ask you a few questions. There have been a lot of people who are claiming to have the winning ticket, so we're screening everyone carefully, I'm sure you understand." I take a good look at him, and he looks exhausted.
"I get it. What do you need?"
He gives me a bit of a list, including the information where I bought the ticket, who the cashier was, along with the ticket itself and my drivers license. I give him everything and as he scans the ticket, his eyes slightly widen at the numbers.
He clears his throat and excuses himself from the room.
Five minutes.
Ten minutes
Twenty minutes later he comes with a another man, holding a large file.
"Edward, I'd like you to meet Eleazar Santos. He's head of our legal team and would like to ask you a few questions."
We sit and discuss the exact same things that I talked over with Aro and after ten minutes, Eleazar and Aro excuse themselves to the hallway.
"Let's go ahead and pull together the normal press conference and tell people we have a winner," I hear Aro say.
"We need to wait to see if anyone else comes forward before giving this guy over two hundred million dollars," Eleazar counters.
"Any office pools or state workers would have claimed it by now, plus we have that only one person won and he's sitting in my office."
I want to tell them that this is more money then I'll ever know what to do with.
Wait.
They're giving me all of it?
They come back in and sit across from me, both looking very serious.
"Edward, I only have one question left for you," Eleazar grins.
"Okay."
"Did you want it all at once, or would you like monthly installments?"
What would you do?
