Vegas and Stavie

Ms Stavie went to Las Vegas for her summer vacation. She wanted to go to wild Vegas because she was exhausted from a year of teaching in the school. She left Cyprus on a hot boiling Sunday and arrived there on a warm Monday night. Ms Stavie went to Las Vegas because she had heard how great and fun the casino games are in the States.

As soon as she arrived she rushed through the airport with excitement. When she saw the first casino on the way to the hotel she stopped the cab, paid the driver and rushed through the traffic into the casino leaving her luggage behind. Ms Stavie ran in there rapidly but had to stop to look at the beauty of the casino. The casino looked great. It was so shinny, clean and full of pure gold as decoration. Everyone knew the casino as the Casino of Beauty. The place was full of rich glamorous people. Ms Stavie could hear the noise of people laughing and of glasses of wine dinging together because of happiness and cheers.

She started off by buying one scratch and win lottery ticket. She put the ticket in her back pocket and rushed to play roulette and blackjack for the first time in her life. Then she bought the chips and joined a table which was playing blackjack. She played a couple of games losing a few and winning a lot. After those games Ms Stavie thought she was too good for her competitors. She joined another group which was playing roulette. In her new group there were 2 people apart from herself a Saudi Arabian man and another male Indian. They were the best gamblers in the whole casino. The Saudi Arabian was very posh and thought he was better than the rest of the universe. On the other hand the Indian was wearing a Punjabi suit and a head wrap. Ms Stavie had so much luck on her side AGAIN. She kept beating them so the Indian gave up.

After the Indian left the table MS Stavie felt her first victory. The Saudi Arabian man told Ms Stavie in a loud voice ‘One on one or give up’. Then he went on to tell her the rules ‘We play till one person losses all his chips and loser is forced to leave’. She replied ‘Who am I to let you down’ trying to hide how nervous and worried she was. But she couldn’t stop. She was addicted to the game. So they started off with a tough round. Ms Stavie won 5 chips of $500 and the Saudi won 6 chips of $1000. At the second round her luck ran out. She set all her chips on the color black and the Saudi set 1 chip on red and spun the roulette wheel. That was it for Ms Stavie. The ball landed on 15 red and she lost all her chips.

She left sadly from casino remembering she had lost her luggage and money. Ms Stavie found the closest bench to the casino and tried to sleep on it feeling guilty about what had happened. She felt worried. She felt scared and was about to cry. Soon after she lied down on the bench the police came up to her and took her to prison thinking that she was a homeless beggar.

The next morning Ms Stavie woke up in jail. She had slept on the coldest corner in the room because there was no place to sleep. She was thinking about her night that passed and what she did in the casino. Then all of a sudden she remembered her lottery ticket that she had bought in the casino. So she checked her pockets. She found her ticket and felt really happy because she had a chance of winning her money back. She screamed from happiness because she found the ticket.