A Billion(aire) To One Chance
A SHORT STORY “ Um . What ?” A sheepish shrug. Like he hadn’t just completely blown my brains out of the known galaxy and everything beyond it. “I bought you a house.” I shook my blankly numb head in complete bewilderment. “I told you I couldn’t afford to buy a house. Or even rent one.” I got an almost equally blank look of bewilderment in return. “I know. That’s why I bought you one .” That last sentence came carefully measured out, like he was talking to a particularly stubborn or stupid child. So . Well. Anybody else out there with a completely dopey former best friend who became a billionaire and returned to buy you a seven-figure house in London? Or maybe that was just me. I had known James Tyler Scott since we were in high school. We did our Post-16 education in the local college, in the same Performing Arts course, where we became quite close friends. Then, we ended up in the same drama school in London for a Musical Theatre Degree and stuck together tightly because...