After she finished eating her breakfast, Irene proceed to the basement, feeling excited, at the same time amused by her dream.
When she arrived there, she inspected the wooden closet closely. It looks so old!
She attempted to move it away from the wall, good thing it's not that heavy. She managed to move the closet away from the wall without much difficulty.
There's an old painting hanging on the wall after the closet was no longer blocking the view. She quickly removed the painting and voila! She saw a hidden drawer attached to the wall.
"Oh, my God! It's real!" she exclaimed. She got fired up! Curious to know what's inside the drawer.
Feeling excited, she opened the drawer and saw twenty medium size black pouches inside. She grabbed one pouch and took a peek inside. She saw shiny yellow-colored stones!
She went to the bed and emptied the contents of the pouch on the bed.
OMG!
She grabbed the golden shiny stone and inspected them one by one. They looked like real gold!
She counted the glittering objects, there are a total of 200 hundred small nuggets in just one pouch!
Oh, my God! Her impossible dream is getting real!
Her short stint working in a pawnshop and jewelry store that specializes in buying and selling gold taught her a few tricks, it's handy to her at this very moment. She knows simple ways to identify if these shiny stones are real gold! She put back the stones in the pouch and rushed towards the staircase, going back to the kitchen.
When she arrived at the kitchen, she grabbed a plastic basin and filled it with water, then she dropped the contents of the pouch into the bowl.
WOW!
The gold nuggets sunk into the bottom of the basin! A clear indication that the stones are real gold!
"Hooray! I have real gold in my position!" she gushes happily.
Not satisfied yet, she picked up five golden nuggets and put them on the platter, then she poured white vinegar on them.
Holding her breath, she waited for a few minutes, wanting to know if the golden stones would change color. If it changes color, it means the gold nuggets are fake!
Half an hour later.
To Irene's delight, the color of the stone didn't change. After passing two tests, she can finally confirm that the gold nuggets are real!
She left the kitchen and went back to the basements as excitement and happiness were building up in her system. If the rest of the contents of the pouches are real gold then she will become a wealthy woman soon!
When she arrived at the basement, she wasted no time and removed the rest of the pouches and put them on the bed. She emptied all the contents into the bed.
Behold...
In the bed is an array of gold, the largest numbers that she had seen in her 23 years of life on earth.
These gold nuggets can help her family in so many ways. It can change her family's destiny, from rags to riches!
She was jumping up and down in absolute joy, overwhelmed with happiness.
For a few seconds, she was confused about what to do next.
Mind blown, she stood beside the bed, staring at the golden nuggets as if she was dreaming.
A few minutes later.
Irene finally breaks away from her frozen state.
Of course! She knows what to do next! She needs money!
She will visit a store in town that buys and sells gold. She will sell some of the gold nuggets.
Fantastic! She already had a plan. She put all the nuggets back into the pouches and returned them to their original hiding place.
She will only bring one pouch to the town and sell the gold nuggets in gradual manner to avoid alerting bad people. Once bad people know that she has lots of gold in her position they might rob her, putting her life and her family in danger.
Hmm, what to do with the rest of the gold nuggets?
She can't sell all the golden nuggets in one store!
She should travel to faraway towns and cities to cover her tracks, just like what the main protagonist did in the novel that she had read last year. Drake was the main character in the Golden Dream novel that she had bought from a book sale. He found large amount of gold in the mountain. He didn't sell his valuable finds in one go, he sold them gradually, selling only a few gold once a year and doing it in different cities to cover his tracks.
"What a brilliant idea!" Irene gushes.
She would do the same.
She began waving plans in her mind.
She will no longer sell the ancestral house. She and her family will return here so that the house and the whole property will be taken care of.
As for her, she will be traveling in different cities. She will only come here to get the pouches and continue selling them in the cities all over the country to limit her exposure.
The one thing that she feared the most are the thieves. They might go after her just like what happened to Drake in the novel. He was haunted by robbers at every turn.
But she can't let fear paralyze her, destroying her only chance to become a wealthy woman!
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and she was lucky to be the one given this amazing chance!
Oh, boy! Her brain was getting hyperactive.
A few minutes later.
She restore the wooden closet on its original position and left the basement, locking the door securely outside. She went to her room on the second floor to plan her next move.
From now on, no one will know the existence of golden nuggets inside the secret drawer on the wall in the basement, only her!
Her gold findings can either bring her endless bliss and fortune or endless trouble if she is not careful with her plan and movement from now on.
Wait...
The person who told her about the location of the gold nuggets is the person in her dream. That mysterious guy named Brent!
Who is he?
Is he even real?
Or does he only exist in her dream?
Things about him are getting weird...
How did that guy know about the gold nuggets hidden in a secret drawer in the wall?
Ah, yes! She remembered it now. Brent told her that it's his gift to her.
Is Brent one of the ghosts living in this house?
Does her grandmother's ancestral home become haunted by ghosts all of a sudden?
Or Brent was just a figment of her hyperactive imagination? Created by her desperate mind?
She released a deep sigh.
Lately, she noticed some mysterious occurrences in the house.
It all started with the ring that she had found in the closet in the basement, the object that she can't remove from her finger no matter how hard she tried.
Then she dreamed about the mysterious handsome-looking Brent.
In her dream, he revealed to her the location of the golden nuggets hidden in the basement and claimed them as his gifts to her.
The golden nuggets are real, but how about Brent?
Is he a real person or just a figment of her imagination? Or just a random guy in her dreams?
Or maybe the gold nuggets were also part of her dream and when she opened her eyes tomorrow morning, they're already gone.
Maybe...
Damn! Things are getting crazier around her.
The craziest thing of all is the appearance of the mysterious guy in her dreams named Brent, informing her about the existence of the golden nuggets in the basement.
Or maybe...
Ouch!
She's getting a headache all of a sudden just thinking about these weird things that are happening around her.
She hoped she's not going crazy!
Irene spent the rest of her day making plans in her head, continuously staring at the golden nuggets that she put in a plastic box fearing that they might disappear anytime soon.
She's constantly on the edge, fearing that her blissful dream of getting rich will vanish into thin air in the blink of an eye!
Hopefully not.