One Cent. One "Gold Digger"

Synopsis

After a month of breakup, Alex Reed, my ex, Venmoed me some money in the middle of the night. I was half-asleep, only to find he Venmoed me one cent. Then his message popped up: [Emily Young, can you stop being such a gold digger? It's been a month since we broke up, and you still can't let go of even three cents?] He called me a gold digger. I didn't even bother to reply. I Venmoed the one cent right back to him and blocked him. The next morning, my roommate shoved her phone right in my face. My photo was pinned to the top of the campus gossip forum, with the caption: [Gold digger made it. Who's riding in the Rolls-Royce with her?] Three thousand comments were flaming me, calling me shameless. Alex even replied underneath: [She was always like this when we were together. She blew through 7,000 dollars of mine in just one month.] I laughed. We were together for three months, but he didn't spend a single dollar on me. He didn't know that the Rolls-Royce belonged to my dad, Richard Young. My dad was a school board member. He would find out soon enough. I would make Alex grovel and swallow that "gold digger" insult.