What do you think: Can money destroy a friendship or not?

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Well, I would really like to know your opinion. Even if I am just about 18 I already experienced a very hard event involving my trust, a person whom once i believed to be a good friend and money. What exactly happened? Very easy. In December my mom went to work in Italy because we could no longer survive. So I remained alone at home. My neighbor, just a level up, is like 23 or 24 years old and it's a she. Well I believed that we were friends, and when I entrust a person which such a name, I will always try to help that person. So that day came. My mom had to send me some money to pay the bills, but since I was a minor, she had to ask someone adult. I told her to transfer them to my neighbor account. Firstly she disagreed, but in the end she approved. So now my mom sent the money. We went, took the money and that's all. But after 2 or 3 hours she came to me and asked me, begging, if I could lend her $50 (In my country $50 are a currency and they do mean a lot of money).She also added that she will give them back the next day, but she definitely had to pay them that day for something like a rent or something, for guess who?: her BOYFRIEND. ...I stood and think, but I said OK. Your my friend, I will help you, you even said that you will give them back tomorrow, so where's the harm? Next day didn't come after even 2 week. I kept calling her and she always told me that she was talking with friends from allover the place, but she never gave them back. (I didn't tell my mom about this , then. I hoped that she would pay them back) After a month she came and asked again, now to pay gas for her BOYFRIEND..... I stood... I admit I was not stupid, I was damn right RETARDED. Guess what? I said yes. "Let's help her, in the end she is still my friend, no? I mean she would definitely not lie to me ,..Right?.......... Well that proved to be wrong. My mom came after 4 month and my neighbor still didn't gave the money back. She went to my mom and said that she will pay them the next day. Now, there are more than 7 month since I gave her $100 and, after hundreds over hundreds ( I am not making up, she actually created more more lies)and threats from my mom ( she is getting pissed off already, she managed to give us at least half of the sum. Right now my mom is on the verge of desperation. She had to pay something weeks ago and she needed that $100. She begged the person to wait and wait. My mother began to call her every half an hour ( Why? Because my neighbor said that she will give them next hour, the next one because now she couldn't make, because her mother was at a conference, because her grandfather didn't care about her - she lives in his house- that actually her mother had a surgery ( in 2 hours? this morning was at her job, We know it because my mom found out) Eventually she said that the rest of the money will be given today at 4 pm. Guess what? Now it's half past 6 and she hadn't given any money and still played the victim. My reaction? You are DEAD to me. Just bring the money the money and we're done for good. My mother's reaction?If in max 2 hours you don't bring the money, I will make sure that until next day, your ENTIRE family will find out what kind of person you actually are. Now what do you think? What should I do from now on? Did something like this has ever happened to you? What did you do? One thing I know, My friendship with her is gone already and we will never be friend ago, nor do I want that. She mocked me for more that 7 month. I know this because she could've given the money if she wanted. She definitely is more rich than my entire family( maybe not that rich, but make the comparisation between a old person who still has a job, and 1 neice that works- the other one,my neighbor has a sister ; and me who is still in high school and I can't work anywhere( more reasons ) and my mom who got fired 7 years ago because the place where she worked got bought by some other comany and those people decided that the older people will get fired. And guess what? From then on my mom never got any chance to get hired again on the base that she is too old to work, but she didn't get the chance to get on anticipated pension, because she didn't had all the years to do so ) That's all. I would really want to hear your opinion. :D