Hello babe, where are you I'm inside I replied can you come out please? I just parked in front of the gate, Why won't he just come in, I mumbled, as I tried to place my baby gently in her crib, she had fallen asleep while breastfeeding, such a peaceful child, I thought. Taking my wrapper, I wrapped it round my shoulders to cover my chest and upper bust, as I had a spaghetti dress on and was not ready to have a change of dress yet.
Stepping out, I found his car right at the spot he said he was, I walked up to him with a frown on my face, opened the front door and sat right next to him, but I was greeted with a full smile on his face, what is it? I asked, as I watched him pull out a small polythene bag, he handed it over to me, I could see joy and happiness written all over his face, open it he said, wow! I uttered in suprise, where did you get money from? The business deal I told you about finally worked out, he said excitedly, use 50,000 naira for now to sort out basic things needed in the house, I'm off to the market to get new goods to refill the store, when I"m back we will discuss further, okay, I said, releasing a breath of relief, as I tried to open the car door...
Waah waah, I heard my baby crying, I stirred from sleep, instinctively going to carry her, oh no! It was just a dream. A wave of sadness rippled through me, as I gradually became fully alert while nursing her. We were still deeply in debt, as hubby's business deal didn't work out. Instead, he lost out on the hard-earned capital and loans he received. His mood these days was devoid of happiness and joy.
My mum walked into the room, she must have heard her granddaughter cry, as she always does in the middle of the night, she helps in carrying the baby, after nursing, I gave her the baby to burp and rock her back to sleep, but I didn't go back immediately to bed like I usually do, I kept on replaying the dream in my mind, truly, there was no foodstuffs left in the house and I had a hospital appointment in less than two days, we needed money badly, I must have been lost in thought that she noticed and asked why I was moody, I narrated the event of my dream to her, after which she asked us to pray about it, then she jokingly said it could be a lottery number you know, I've heard people dream about receiving money or just random numbers then went ahead to try their luck in the lottery.
I've never played the lottery before and don't even know what type to play, the most common in my country is lotto, popularly known as known as baba Ijebu, I decided to try my luck, as the day broke, I sent my younger sister to give the attendant at the lottery outlet a 200 naira note, with the number 50 and 1 written on a piece of paper, as the 50,000 naira I received in the dream was in 1000 naira notes, also to ask of the time the results will be out, my mum also staked same price with me, making a total of 400, I guess it was just for the fun of staking, we jokingly teased ourselves of trying out the lottery for the first time, and didn't expect to win, my mum prayed though for it to work haha.
We almost forgot about what we had staked , it was afternoon already, the result would have been out some hours back, my younger sister was not yet back from school, so I decided to go check the results myself, I wore a light weight cotton blouse on a penciled jean trouser on getting there, I asked the attendant for the result of the game played in the morning, she pointed at a board where some numbers were written boldly, I scanned through the numbers and couldn't believe my eyes, number 1 and 50 were part of the numbers, with my heart pumping with excitement, I quickly brought out the two tickets from my back pocket, showed it to her and inquired to know how much I had won, 48,000naira for each ticket she replied with a smile on her face and asked me to wait a little while to get my cash totaling 96,000 naira , I couldn't believe it, even when the cash was offered to me , she asked if I had another number to stake, of course no.
I arrived home, gave my mum her part of the winning, she danced for joy, we couldn't believe our luck, my dream number worked, how it did? I'm still baffled, I was able to get the basic things needed in the house then, food stuffs, medicines etc