Love at Second Sight...Wait What?

Chapter 1

"Great, anything else you want to throw at me right now!" Jason growled glaring at the sky for a second as he tried to manipulate his vehicle through the freak flash down pour.

"Thank you, Roswell weather," he muttered.  He jerked the wheel as the wind blew against him.  Its strength trying to push him off the road.  He focused as hard as he could to see more than a few feet ahead of his car. 

Suddenly, something jumped right in front of his vehicle.  His reflexes kicked in and he slammed on the brakes and jerked the wheel.  He over-corrected and felt the vehicle begin to roll.

"Oh, shit!", was his last thought before his head was slammed against the window and he was knocked out.

The Officer responding to the crime just shook his head in sadness.  A young father, just on his way home from work.  He thought as he called in the accident to dispatch.

"Yeah, uh I got a one vehicle accident, the car rolled about two or three times and landed upside down in the ditch.  The driver is DOA. No passengers at this time, apparently tried to miss something in the road from the swerve and skid marks," he finished.  He logged in the man's name and told dispatch to send or call the man's wife and family.

Her life was gone.  Her body sat unmoving, inside was an empty shell.  A black hole sucking the light and life from her bones.  Her mind was functioning at instinct level.  Her three girls were all sitting with her on the couch in a hugging bundle of young hearts and arms.   She couldn't move to take their affection.  The phone in her clenched hand was already beeping from not being unconnected.  Her heart was shattered with jagged pieces puncturing her soul.  She couldn't breathe.  

Her girls were confused at her unresponsiveness and kept a hold of her.  She finally blinked and took a small breathe before the tears that were building for the last fifteen minutes finally broke through the damn of stubborn denial.  

"G..g..girls," she stuttered sniffing slightly.  The tears continued to fall.  Niagara falls had nothing on the power of her loss.  

"G..g..girls, that was...the police...they," she hiccuped and tried to hold in her sobs just a little.

"Daddy, he won't be coming home anymore," she whispered.

"What do you mean?" asked her oldest daughter, ten year old Elizabeth.

"Daddy was in an accident and he...went to heaven," she replied quietly.

Her youngest, 3 year old Ruby didn't fully understand," We will see him again right?" she asked.

"Not for a very long time sweety," she said hugging her girls close.

Elizabeth and her middle girl, seven year old Lacey began to cry realizing the situation.

Ruby began to sniffle understanding that everyone else was upset.

-2 months-

It has been two months since her world had ended, Jenni thought.  She had been grieving trying to get all of the after death controversies over and done with.  Her mother-in-law helped out money wise which she was grateful. Jenni had a job that would keep them afloat, but just barely.  They wouldn't be able to do a lot of things other than pay bills and have shelter.  She knew she had to do something drastic.

Getting up out of bed she did her routine, shower, breakfast, kids to school.

This was her day off from work so she was going to budget and get all of her finances in order.  She made all of the necessary sacrifices for her girls.  Trying to stay strong in front of them.  But she was dead, numb inside going on auto pilot, a robot doing the motions of living.  Today was the last day of school for the girls and she knew that she had to be able to make food last for the summer.  She also had started almost from day one of playing the lottery for her husband, Greg.  He always said she should play cause she would win.  She had been playing for two months without a result.  These last two weeks she was putting in $20 dollars instead of $10.  She sat down and went on-line to look at her numbers.  They didn't have cable because it cost too much.  She looked at her ticket 10, 17, 31, 52, 21 pb 40.  She looked at the numbers on the screen  10, 17, 31, 52, 21 pb 40.  She looked again and again and again.  Then she looked at the amount and sat there numb for about fifteen minutes.   Then falling to the ground sobbing all her grief, chanting why over and over. After a few hours Jenni sat up and looked up at the proverbial cosmos..."Thank you, my love," she whispered.  Getting up she cleaned herself up before her girls got home.  

Once her brain clicked back on she realized that she had won the $10 million dollar jackpot! Well, after the government bullshit she would get...$2.5 million!  She decided to keep working and do everything the same as usual.  She turned in all the information she needed to and waited for the check and the press in about a month to come to her door.