The Loan From My Best Friend
PART 1 CHAPTER 1 "You already owe me $50,000 and want to borrow another $5,000?" Charles said exasperated. "You are digging yourself deeper and deeper in the hole with your fucking gambling! When is it going to stop, Jim?" He looked me straight in eyes and asked me, "How are you planning to ever pay me back, Jim?" I looked down and said to him, "Charles, $55,000 for you is a drop in the bucket, man! I have no one else I can borrow from and if I do not pay these guys $5,000 today, they'll put me in the ER, maybe the grave!" Charles looked at me with a perplexed expression. We were standing in his kitchen eating sandwiches. Charles was my best friend from college. He is white, blue eyes, blond, a little over 6 feet tall, athletic build from working out every day and, at 25, he had already sold a software company and was worth a few million dollars. I am six inches shorter, half-white and half-Latino, skinny, not athletic, and not as attractiv...