The Perfect Platform

By Priscilla Laster

This is the story of two young kids who reach adult-hood to realize they've always been more than willing to be boyfriend/girlfriend. When Andrew wins $128M (through a lottery ticket), he conceals his fortune to make sure Michelle will except his marriage proposal for only loving him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Priscilla Laster
• Release date: Mar 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311312563

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The Perfect Platform

by: Priscilla Laster

Millionaire, Proposal, Fiction, First Time, Romance, Lottery, Female, Secret Crush

This is the story of two young kids who reach adult-hood to realize they've always been more than willing to be boyfriend/girlfriend. When Andrew wins $128M (through a lottery ticket), he conceals his fortune to make sure Michelle will except his marriage proposal for only loving him.

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Chapter 1

Most of the events in my life haven't always gone the way I would like, when something unexpected yet wonderful happened I won the lottery. The girl that I've been dreaming of, well I'll tell you how it goes, it's hard to tell it in a short story but if you got time. Here it is, how this all happened had me asking, does she want me for my love or my money? That is a question a lot of wealthy people ask, do you love me for my love or just want my money. Sometimes that question is a very hard one to find the answer to. Sometimes it's easy, and not always the answer you really want. What would you do to find out, what would you risk to find the truth? My name is Anthony Carpenter. My friends call me Andrew, I'm more or less an ordinary young man except for the fact I'm six foot one with very heavy muscular body because I worked alongside my Dad for years. You might say I'm stronger than the average person. I'm not like a weight builder and spent eight hours a day lifting weights. Normally I spent ten hours a day carrying lumber or other building supplies. I can bench press more than my own weight, I weigh one hundred and eighty pounds and I can bench press two hundred and twenty-five pounds. I do have a six-pack set of abs. My hair will vary from medium blonde to golden blond after I'm outdoors long enough. Mom says I'm a gorgeous young man with my hazel eyes and tan skin with golden blond hair, but I think she's a little prejudiced being my mother. My Dad is a carpenter and every summer when school is out I helped him build a house or two. This summer was no exception we started the first house. The gentleman we were building this house for, wanted to use rough lumber just a lower building cost a couple thousand dollars. The lumber was green and uncured and had lain exposed in the rain for the past three days prior to beginning construction. I could carry three of the 4 x 12 that were about twenty to twenty-two foot long at a time. They were water soaked and each weighed over one hundred and twenty pounds. It's the only way I can keep up with my Dad. Seeing me carrying three he made me stop a said the way too much and the ground was too slippery for him to lose his best carpenters helper. I thought it was too slippery to run with them as well. He took a break and let me carry a half-dozen down to get ahead of him. That day was my eighteenth birthday, and I would begin my senior year high school in the fall. One more year and I would be free to go or work where ever I chose. I agreed with my father to stay and help him and finish school. I was hoping to get into college but the finances were not there, I was lucky to get a secondhand light pickup truck for my eighteenth birthday. It wasn't in too bad shape other than having more than sixty thousand miles on it. I knew Mom and Dad scraped and saved a long time to afford the pickup for my birthday. So I am very grateful for the truck. That evening we began laying down the subflooring having finished with the heavy 4 X 12s. By noon the next day were finished with the subfloor. We took a break for lunch, which is not normally how we work. But mom had left early to work and Dad wanted to get started before the temperature got too hot. We ate our hamburgers and soda that we purchased at a little local restaurant.  Before pulling away from the restaurant I looked at my gas gauge and it was on empty. So on the way back to the job site I pulled into a gas station to fill up. Handed eighty dollars to the gas station clerk a girl in my class named Michelle. Michelle was a beauty. Although her family was as poor as mine, Michelle had the attitude and the appearance that put her in the in crowd with the rich kids. You know the kids that come from well-off families which never had to work at a summer job in their life. Michelle would say she's doing this just to have something to put on her college entry letter. But I knew she was doing it so she would have the preppy clothing she wanted at the start of school. Michelle never gave me the time of day from when we started high school, but I always had a crush on her. When we were little, Michelle and I always hung out together at school. We were young and innocent so nothing ever