Hitting It Big

Chapter 1 Former local high school football star, Mitch Crestfield, hits it big. Wins lottery. Billy Grant studied the black-and-white photograph on the front page of the small town paper. It was an old one from Mitch’s senior year. A high-school-senior-aged Mitch, dressed in the school football uniform, smiled from the photo. The winning numbers were 8 15 28 31 34 2. “It was just a quick pick,” Crestfield told this reporter. “Spur of the moment kinda thing while I was getting gas.” Crestfield bought the ticket at the Chevron Quik Mart. Billy glanced at his watch. He was due to meet his brother, Andy, at the parking lot of a popular bar soon for Mitch’s party. He wondered again if he should even be going. He hadn’t faced Mitch, really, in years, but Andy had insisted. And now Mitch had won the lottery. Literally. Last Saturday’s Lotto had been nearly fourteen million. Split between two tickets, so Mitch would get half. Well, minus the government’s chunk of course. He set the newspaper down and went to the front hall of his small, one bedroom apartment and grabbed his leather jacket. From outside, the sound of cars on the street in front of his apartment reminded him he couldn’t delay this any longer. It was now or never. He could call Andy and tell him he changed his mind or he could go to the party and see Mitch again.