My Lucky Day, Her Fatal Flaw

My name is Gabrielle Johns, a rising architect with everything going for me – a dream career, a great apartment, and loving parents who sacrificed for my future. I was heading to my family's lake house for a long weekend, my best friend, Jen, complaining beside me as usual.

That' s when the vintage hearse hit my car, a minor fender-bender that Jen immediately declared my "lucky day."

Bizarrely, her words seemed to come true: my career soared, and my parents had the full down payment for my new condo.