Levi Beck
was just getting back home from his grandmother’s funeral, he ran up to his
room and threw
himself across the king size bed, still mourning her death. The nineteen year
old really loved
his grandmother and thought of her as being the best thing that ever happen to him. Her wonderful memories soon flooded his young mind and began to overwhelm his grieving
soul.
Levi Beck
felt that his grandmother was the only one in his family who actually understood
him and what he
was trying to accomplish. She felt his
pain in a way no one else could. She was
more than
just his grandmother, she was a dear friend. His dad deserted him when he was
an infant. His mother
was abusive and non-caring. Therefore, his grandmother was his only rock, and
now
she was
gone. Levi Beck was a good kid, he did not hang out with bad people. He always dreamed of a
better life for himself and those around him. He was in his last year of high school. His
grades were pretty good. However, he
knew that it would take more than good grades to help
get him out of his slump. Prior to his grandmother’s death he had played the Illinois
lottery, and that was only just a few days ago. As he began to remember about
purchasing
some lottery tickets, together with some regrets of not being there during her
last days, he
dared to dream again. Beck crawled up
out of the bed and went over to the nightstand
where the tickets were and gathered them up and went over to the laptop
computer to
check the online numbers. Soon he was on
the Illinois lottery’s website. Still feeling remorseful
over the death of his grandmother, Levi Beck did not have confidence in much of anything,
he was just going through the motions. He peered over his lottery numbers and then the
numbers on the computer, and then again, and then again, and then again. This can’t be
true, he kept on saying. The numbers from the website matched one of his tickets.
After
multiple re-checks and loud swearing, it was true, he had won the lottery. Beck
had never won anything
in his entire life. It seemed that his grandmother’s death had become old news
very
quickly. He jumped up and down with remarkable glee, and Beck wanted and needed
to tell the
rest of his family and friends that he now had money. He was now rolling around his bedroom floor
and shouting. The smile on his face had stretched from one ear to the other.
There was
sunshine all in his eyes. Levi Beck glowed with optimism. The first thing he
would do with some of
the money will be to bury his grandmother with grace and dignity and buy her
a great
looking headstone that reads, Rest in
Peace, Silvia Cage Steel in big broad letters.
His young
face lit up the room, like fireworks light up the sky on the Fourth of July. Levi Beck’s
once morbid face went from sadness and regret to all bright smiles, in a span
of one hour. He
would gleefully now take over the burial duties and give his grandmother a proper
and respectable
send-off from this, God’s Earth.
