Normally, Xandra didnât buy lottery tickets but today she was feeling pretty lucky and decided that it would be a good thing to try. At least once. What was the harm and finally doing something that most Americanâs had already done? Xandra unlike many people, sheâs never played on a lottery ticket. Her parents had never bought them, when she was younger she had just thought it was because they were tight on money. When in reality it was because they had more money than what they knew what to do with. They had set up trust funds with more zeros at the end of it than many could imagine for each of their children. Xandra and Xavier both got these large trust funds when they had turned eighteen. This didnât include all the other money that their parents had left them when they had died. Xandra had always lived off of the interest on her money. She had hardly made a dint in the funds. The Starkâs had even made up separate college funds, that paid for their college if they wanted to go in full. Xandra had been lucky enough to not need to use that money for college she went on full scholarships. The blonde pushed her thoughts from her mind. She had no reason to actually play the lottery other than the fact that she was feeling a bit lucky. She might as well use that luck, whatever she wins would just go into the fund that she had made for her baby. For now she was just focusing on a college fund, then she would move onto a different fund that would help him or her out if anything was to happen to her. That or just help with bills when he or she was older.
Coming to a stop outside of the gas station, she sighed and walked inside. Now or never, she thought to herself as she went and grabbed a bottle of water. Since she had decided to walk for a little bit today, it would be a good idea for her to keep hydrated, even in the cold. Once she had the water bottle, she went up to the counter and also told them that she would take a few lottery tickets. She got a few different kinds a few dollar tickets and then one of their bigger ten dollar tickets. After the cashier ran her out, Xandra stepped to the side with her water and lottery tickets. She might as well scratch the tickets off here, that way if she won she could just get the winnings before she even left the gas station. Reaching into her purse, the woman fished around for her change purse. Once she found the change purse she pulled it out and grabbed a penny from inside of it. With the penny in her fingers she stuffed the change purse back into her purse before she went to reading one of the dollar tickets that she had gotten. She had to match three symbols. Sounded easy enough. Starting at the top left corner she scratched off that area before she moved down one and scratched that one and then down one more. Much to her surprise, she had matched three of the diamond symbols. Glancing over to the side of the rules on the ticket, she dropped her jaw with shock. She had managed to win five hundred dollars with that ticket. What the crap, Xandra wasnât ever this lucky!
Moving on to the next ticket, she read it before she scratched it off. This one wasnât a winner. Next was the biggest ticket of them all which had a larger grand prize. There was no way that she would manage to win on two different tickets. Shrugging her shoulders she went to work on scratching off a few areaâs on the biggest ticket. She had four areas that she had to scratch off. If she matched four of the prices together. Rubbing the penny agaisnt the top portion of the ticket, the material that scrubbed off leaving pieces of color left behind on the glossy ticket below. After scratching off four of the areas like the rules had said too. She started to look over the ticket. It took her a moment to put it together. All four of the spaces on her ticket that she had scratched off had said âJACKPOTâ. What did that mean? She shook her head, as she went back to reading the rules. Jackpot was basically the entire pot of money that they had put aside for this lottery drawing. NO FUCKING WAY!
She gasped as she continued to look over the ticket. How in the world had she managed to win on two different tickets. Grabbing her water off of the counter she went back over to the cashier and handed over both of her tickets for them to check them in the machine that checked each ticket to make sure that they were actually winners. The cashier was even surprised when both tickets came back as winners. The cashier gave her the five hundred dollars for the smaller of the tickets that she got and the rest was supposed to be mailed? Since that went from the state. Xandra wasnât sure but nodded her head. It still surprised her that she had won so much money. Time to go set up the fund for the baby, a savings account that she would be able to put money into anytime she wanted. She might even donate a bit to charity when she got the bigger portion of the lottery money. Then again, she always donated to charity. That was one of her biggest things that she did with some of the money that she got from her business. Heck, she even gave money from her paychecks. She pushed those thoughts aside as she took the ticket back from the cashier. She would need it to go on the website on the back to give them her information to get the jackpot winnings. Xandra still couldnât believe that she had managed to win on two different lottery tickets. She knew she had felt that she was feeling lucky, but this, that was far more than just the small feeling of being lucky that she had. Not that she minded. That would give a rather nice padding to her childâs fund. Probably pay for most of college with just that winnings.
