Levi Beck

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.

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