I Kept The Receipts This Time

"I Kept The Receipts This Time" is a serial novel published on SkyStory. 1 chapters in total. My roommate claimed he didn't even have enough money left to…

SkyStory 1 chapters English 13 Sep 2026

My roommate claimed he didn't even have enough money left to buy groceries, begging me to pass along one of my private tutoring clients. Instead of handing over a contact, I simply forwarded a generic message into our department group chat: "Brett is looking for private tutoring gigs. If anyone has open slots or leads, please reach out to him." In my previous life, I had been the consummate nice guy. I gave him the eighth-grade student I’d spent an entire year mentoring. A week later, Brett burst into the conference room during my direct-track master’s fellowship interview, his clothes torn and disheveled. "Evan set me up! He told me they were a lovely family, but the minute I walked in, the mother accused me of inappropriate conduct and tried to extort me for thousands..." "He even took a three-hundred-dollar referral kickback behind my back..." Right there on the spot, our academic advisor suspended me, threatening to call campus security over alleged conspiracy and fraud. I lost my fellowship. I was forced to withdraw. My face was plastered all over campus confession boards, drowned in relentless vitriol, until even my parents stopped answering my calls. It wasn't until after I died that the truth surfaced: Brett had targeted that wealthy mother from the very beginning. He had tried to seduce her, and when she threatened to call the police, he scrambled for a scapegoat—and destroyed me to save himself. In this life, I wanted to see who he would pin it on when my name was nowhere near the paper trail.

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