Reckoning the Bills, Writing off Love
My fiancee, Ruby Gordon, is the richest person in Glenridge.
Yet on day one, she demands we split everything 50-50.
"It's the only way I'll know you actually love me and aren't just after my money," she says.
I really do love her, so I agree.
Five years pass like this.
We split the cost of the leather shoes she buys me.
We split the pre-marital health checkup.
We even split our 5000-dollar rent.
Then, one week before our wedding, Mom ends up in the hospital after a car crash.
Two bills hit my phone at the same time.
One is a 12,000-dollar surgery fee for Mom.
The other is my 1,000-dollar share for the wedding suit.
Looking at my bank balance, which contains less than 1,000 dollar