Something Borrowed Novels & Stories

she thundered the moment he picked up, her irritation evident in every word. “Well, you couldn’t give me the money today, so I borrowed it to you today, with an interest, of course, twenty thousand,” he stated gleefully, his tone indicating a twisted satisfaction at the complications of their arrangement. “What nonsense are you spouting?” she asked, struggling to comprehend the audacity of his demands. “Well, this is how business works. I need the money you owe me, so what else do I do? I borrow. So now you’ve got to pay me with interest,” he explained.

"Not quite. I don't pay rent for my cafe. This entire building is mine. I'm not particularly talented. Baking is just a hobby of mine." I never imagined the handsome cafe owner was actually my landlord. I double-checked the name on my lease. He explained that it was his mother's name. She was currently out fishing somewhere in the Azure Ocean, and she had handed all property matters over to him. So technically, it belonged to him. I stared at him in shock, then scooped up every single pastry in the cafe. I didn't even pay. I paid the next day, of course, explaining that I had just been joking.

Kenneth whispered to her ear. Tanya looked up and met his gaze. Still holding her work one hand and the other on the box of suitcase, Kenneth tried to walk out of the reporters clutch but no exit as the silver light from the camera is flashing violently capturing each moment. After a deep breath, Kenneth said finally, "She indeed borrowed the loan!" Everyone gasped. Tanya looked at him immediately and whispered, "What are you saying? It's Bianca's doing" Without sparing the woman in his arm a glance, Kenneth continued, "My Wife indeed borrowed that loan for shopping so I could pay it back which I did"

I asked "Have been taken as an hostage " he said "What? " "I borrowed money from a loan shark and today is the due date, I can't pay them back and so they have taken me "he said '"father why? Why will you borrow from a loan shark" I asked "I needed to feed you and your mom, I couldn't let you take all the responsibility " he said "But you brought more problem dad, do you even know what is happening right now?"I asked "What's happen........." He couldn't complete his sentence because the phone was snatched from him

"You sure you didn't buy a refurbished one?" Zack asked. "I got it from the official store." My throat felt dry. "Three months ago." Three months earlier, right after I bought the laptop, Vivian begged to borrow it. "Lindsay, my company's starting this short-form video project, and I'm doing the editing." She grabbed my arm, practically bouncing. "My trash laptop can't even run 1080P without choking. Yours is crazy fast. Let me borrow it for a month? I swear I'll be careful."

If he was talking about the amount of money that he 'borrowed' since last semester, it was an ungodly amount. Suddenly, bad memories of him borrowing money from me flooded inside my mind. I remembered him taking all the pocket money that my parents gave me for the month, resulting me to have to starve the whole time, and also him appearing out of nowhere and took my money away while I was on my way to buy my favorite figurines, that it resulted in me to have to find the remaining figurines from any online store as they were a limited edition one, and have to pay twice the actual price for the same figurine too. I clenched my fist angrily.

“You don’t understand-“ “Oh, I think I do” Marcus reached forward and snagged a piece of paper from my numb fingers, it was a copy of the signed document where I’d stated in writing the amount I was to borrow, payment plan and acceptance of any punishment in failure to pay as specified. It was all there, including my thumbprint at the bottom. You are aware those people are known to take a limb when you are late on a payment? And to borrow so much money” he clicked his teeth against his tongue. “The interest rates are through the roof too, you might just be in a lifetime of debts darling”

"Michael Smith, are you seriously accusing me of telling the shop to swap your laptop parts? Are you crazy? What would I even gain from that?" "What would you gain?" I repeated coldly. "Maybe you thought I wouldn't notice, or maybe you just didn't care." "You're slandering me!" he yelled. "The report is in my hands," I said firmly. "It's officially stamped and documented. You owe me 7,000 dollars." "7,000 dollars?" he screamed. "Michael, are you insane? I just borrowed your stupid laptop, and now you're saying I owe you 7,000 dollars? Why don't you just rob a bank?"

He had me investigated, so I wasn't surprised he knew about grandma's condition. "Thanks to Rafael, grandma was able to undergo surgery yesterday. She's just recovering now," I replied. I hadn't planned on telling him that Rafael had helped me, but I was afraid he might already know, so I decided to be honest. "Is that what the three hundred thousand dollars he gave you was for?" he asked. I bit my lip and nodded, shame washing over me again. "I-It wasn't a gift. I borrowed it from Rafael, and I'm paying him back," I lied.