Story Cubes Contest #5 entry - short story

My entry for @jacobtothe's Story Cubes contest nr. 5.

Every week, @jacobtothe rolls 9 story dice and invites everyone to create a story (in any medium you can be creative in) using at least 3 of those dice. These are this weeks 9 dice, I used them in this order (1 being top left, 9 being bottom right):
2 - 5 - 7 - 4 - 8 - 3 - 6 - 1 - 9

Here's my short story, hope you enjoy!

My name's Michael Strutter and I'mma let you in on a little secret:
the secret of my fortune.

My dad always had high hopes I'd become a basketball-player - and he still does, by the way. My mom on the other hand would've liked to see me become an airplane pilot (she doesn't anymore). But I've always been a restless, free-wheelin' n' free-dealin' cowboy, getting my fun along the way.

So when I was 17, I decided to combine my love for the ocean and my passion for photography, and I bet you can imagine my folks not being very entousiastic about that. I left home, aboard the Sweet Georgina, off to photograph the Blue Striped Grunts in the Caribbean (that's an actual kind of fish, kids, googly-it if you doubt that).

Imagine my surprise when on my first divin'-trip, I followed some funky little fish as it crawled off into the Caribbean sand - full fathom five. I searched for it and as I dug around with my hands in the sand, I brought up a little wooden chest. I secretly took it up to the boat and opened it. Inside was an ancient treasure map, drawn by the legendary pirate Jacoby Greenbeard IV'th, himself.

I hollered to the captain that I would be leaving the ship - and 't was a good thing I did, cause last thing I heard about Sweet Georgina was it went right up into flames - sinkin' to the bottom of the Carribean.

I studied the map and eventually figured things out, and with my little salary, I was able to venture deep into the heart of the Amazon. Piranhas, apes, crocodiles, I saw the lot and I got away with all my limbs in the right places. I got real close to the location of the treasure when suddenly, I hit a fork in the road. Imagine me there, just dunno which way to go, really.

So I stuck up my middle finger and said, "ef you, fork in the road, I'mma do this. I'mma find this treasure an' I'mma make me a fortune!"

Guess what? I found that treasure.

It was a little recipe.

It was Jacoby Greenbeard's IVth recipe for beans in a hot sauce.

I got back home, said 'hi' to mom & pop, made the beans in hot sauce and it was delicious.

I made a fortune selling them beans in hot sauce.

Wanna know the recipe?