Delulu Roommate Goes Rogue

For three years, Julian Whitmore quietly bankrolled his roommate Elmer Chapman—tuition, living expenses, fifty dollars a day—asking only that Elmer sit in on his private tutoring sessions. Elmer repaid him by kneeling in gratitude, then by fetching meals and cleaning his room, and Julian tipped him for every errand.

Then junior year arrives. Elmer strides into class in designer labels, hurls fifty coins in Julian's face, and announces a billionaire father has found him and handed him a black card with no limit. He gifts luxury bags to all forty-three classmates—everyone but Julian—and the room turns on Julian, whispering that he bullied a poor boy for years.

Julian goes quiet. The black card is gone, and the purchase notifications on his phone tell him why: there is no long-lost father. Elmer stole the card his own father gave him. One phone call later, the card is in Elmer's name—and every cent spent on it will come due.