Blind Old Man Leaves Inheritance to His Grandson’s Best Friend — Story of the Day

A teenager loses his inheritance to his best friend after he tried to make him pay for a crime he did not commit, and somewhere in the mix of all this is a blind old man who played a great gamble.

John was an 18-year-old raised in a wealthy family; his clan, the Ojais, had owned a bunch of hotels all over the world for decades, and it profited them greatly.

The business was started by John’s grandpa, Kevin Ojai, and after he retired, he handed over the company, which had by then expanded and grown, to John’s father, Jacob.

As a person, John was jovial and flamboyant; he had been raised in comfort and was so used to it that when he showed his best friend Clay new things he got, he didn’t see it as showing off.

John was a thrill-seeker, and he thrived off the attention his money could get him. Just a mention of his name was enough to make any girl swoon, and his looks were perfect.

Clay, his best friend, was different, a direct opposite. Where John loved to be seen, he enjoyed being anonymous and even made efforts to make himself so.

As far as wealth was concerned, his family’s status was just a step above poverty. His father, the great deserter as Clay nicknamed him, had left his mother when he was ten because of what the doctors described as a hole in her heart.

The medical condition left her unable to work, and Clay’s father had no interest in slaving for an invalid and her child, so he went out one day and never returned.

Clay had been given no choice but to man up after that, and he did. He and his mother survived on handouts from church members and friends until he was old enough to get hired for small jobs.

He met John a year after his father left, and it did not take very long for him to know that his friend was not from a poor background.