Soon we all finished dinner. My mother and Taylors mother talked for a few minutes before we left. On the way home my mom decided to stop by the grocery store for a 'quick stop shop' as she calls it.
"Haley, will you go and get me two loafs of bread please?"
"Sure mom, no problem," I said. When I came back I saw my mom picking up something that looked familiar.
"Mom, you're not really going to play that again are you? I mean every week you always spend your money on that when you could use it on something else more important. You never win anyway, so whats the use."
"Haley, I am just having a little fun, and its not like we need money or anything. Plus, our chances of winning are greater if we enter than if we don't. It's not hurting anything, so I don't see what the problem is."
"Geez mom, I was just being sarcastic. I didn't mean for you to take it so seriously and get all defensive, sorry. Oh, before I forget, here's your bread."
"Thanks honey, put it in the basket while I fill this out," my mom said refering to a lottery ticket.
"Can I help this time?"
"Sure. Pick some numbers."
"Ok, ummm......how about 3, 14, 2, 25, 8, 4 and 23. Yeah, those feel like winners to me!"
"Haley Elizabeth Parker, you have just picked the winning numbers for the lottery, what are you going to do now?"
"I'm going to Diney Whorl!(Disney World)" I exclaimed a little too loud, for people started to turn around and look at me.
"Haley your full of yourself," my mom said.
"I am not! I was just playing along with you. Ew, mom, can I get this magazine?!? Please?!?!?!?"
"Ok. What is it?"
"Its called Seventeen. I really like it. All of my friends at school are subscribers, so when they bring it to school I always have to borrow it."
"Well why don't you subscribe? When we get home fill out the subscription form and I will send it in tomorrow."
"Really mom? Wow, you really are the best!," I said as I placed the magazine up on the checkout counter with all of the other items that we were buying. As soon as mom payed for the food, we were out of the store. I helped my mom load the groceries in the car and then pushed the buggy back to its spot. I got in the car and we rolled out of the parking lot. As I was flipping through the magazine, something caught my eye. I was looking at it very carefully and intensly. It was an ad for a CHANEL new model of the year. I was never really interested in modeling before, but for some reason I wanted to try it this time.
"Hey mom. Can I enter this contest?"
"I don't know, can you?"
"MAY I enter this contest?"
"Well whats it about?," my mother asked. I explained everything to her and read her aloud then rules and the information that you had to send in. "I don't see why not. Sure its fine with me."
"Thanks mom!," I said as we pulled into our driveway. I hopped out of the passengers seat of the car and made my way around to the trunk. I pulled out three bags of groceries, and took my house key out from my pocket. I walked up to the door and placed the key in the its rightfull hole. I turned the key to the left and the door opened. I walked in and placed the groceries on the floor in the kitchen, then I made my way up to my room. I got a piece of paper and a pen out of one of my drawers, and sat on my bed. With my magazine opened to the page with the entry form, I copied down the questions and answered them on a piece of notebook paper. When I finished I found two pictures of me and placed in the envelope with my entry form. I sealed the envelope and went downstairs to hand it to my mom. I saw my mom sitting on the couch watching t.v. I looked over at the clock on the wall in the kitchen and saw that it was 10 til 6:00. The lottery drawing came on at 6:00 on channel 10. Poor mom I thought, she always tries but never prevails.
"Mom, heres my entry form for the model contest."
"Ok sweetie, just put it over on the counter and I will put a stamp on it and mail it off in the morning."
"Thanks mom," I said as I was about to make my way up to room, but stopped because something caught my attention.
"And this weeks lucky lotto numbers are........3, 14, 2, 25, 8, 4 and 23. If your the lucky winner, please call us at this number within the next 24 hours."
"OH MY GOSH!!!! HALEY YOU DID IT, YOU PICKED THE WINNING NUMBERS!!!!!! WE JUST WON 183 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!" my mom shreiked as she made her way over to me to hug me.
I couldn't believe it. I was in shock. There was no way this was happening to us. Never in a million years could I have imagined anything like this to happen, but it did.
"Oh my gosh, what am I going to do, what am I going to do? Who am I going to call and tell first?!?!?!" my mom said as she was pacing back and forth around the kitchen and living room like a crazy person.
"Mom, get a grip on it. Its not like the worlds coming to an end. We only won 185 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!! I GOTTA CALL TAYLOR!!!!!!!" I yelled as the news was finally starting to sink in.
"I GOTTA CALL THE NUMBER FIRST. THATS WHAT I HAVE TO DO, I HAVE TO CALL THAT NUMBER!" my mother said in hysterics as she made her way over to the phone and called them. While she as talking to them, I started to think about what we were going to do with so much money. We would have to give some of it to daddy and charities, and things like that, it just wouldn't be right for us to keep all of that money. Maybe now mom could quit work and stay home with me and we would finally be able to spend some time together. Just as I was in midway though over this, my mother hung up the phone.
"We are going on a trip tomorrow to New York to get out money," my mom said. "You better start packing now."
"Mom, can the Hanson's come with us, please?!?!?!" I begged and pleaded.
"Sure! Heck, you could invite the whole world!" my mother said as she was sreaming with excitement running up the stairs to her room to pack.
I was too excited to pack. I had to go and tell Taylor and invite him and his family with us to New York.