2 Chapter:2(It was my fault)

Chang's POV

Ring!

My door bell rang or I thought so. Maybe, it was a dream. Just let me sleep me for a little bit longer.

Ring! Ring! Ring!

My door bell rang again and again, which made me really pissed.

Who the hell was ringing the stupid bell and ruining my precious sleep.

"Guess, I have to open the stupid door now," I groaned.

I yawned while opening the door to reveal a very furious looking Xander.

Shit! I am late again- I cringed mentally.

"Hey buddy, what are you doing here?" I asked pretending to be innocent and not knowing the whole ordeal.

He narrowed his eyes at me and said, "You damned idiot! Do you really think you can fool me by pretending of not knowing the fact that you freaking woke up late...like for the millionth time!"

Opps! Guess, he caught my lie and to be honest I was a very bad liar.

Since my lie didn't work I knew that, I was I'm deep trouble. Well, there goes nothing.

"Yeah....I just got up late....ummmm....from my evening nap. I was so tired from all the upcoming exam preparations that I didn't sleep last night at all," I confessed truthfully.

Dang! I should have the truth earlier to him, otherwise he wouldn't have been so pissed right now.

"Ok," he nodded, trying to calm his anger.

"Wait for me! I will be ready in 5 minutes," I yelled while running off to my washroom.

I quickly washed off my face and brushed my teeth and did the other stuff for getting ready.

I slammed the door open to my small walk-in closet and rummaged through my dresses and finally decided to wear my white t-shirt and black jeans with a sky blue jacket.

I didn't have that much branded clothing, but whatever I had was more than enough for me.

Ever since, I was disowned from my own family mansion....I changed my way of leading a life in a peaceful, yet wholesome life.

I was never left alone due to my way of making friends and helping others. But my only true best friend was Xander as because he never befriended me for any sorts of advantages or leaving me behind to get hurt by others.

Coming to the real point, I needed to get going as I didn't want to anger Xander even further as I did already.

I quickly ran upto my living room to see a very annoyed Xander waiting for me while tapping shoes on my wooden floor.

"Bro, I-"

"Hello, dear. How are you?" I was cut off by the sweet voice of my most favourite person of the world, my mom.

"Hey, miss Wei! I am doing great but now tell me, how have you been?" Xander genuinely smiled.

"I am quite in a better health now and thank you for asking."

"No need to thank me, aunt. Actually, I rudely have to go now as it's time for work. We will surely continue the talk later, but now if you please excuse me?" he politely asked.

"No problem at all and please come here more often to visit us. It really makes me happy to see you here with us," my mom smilingly replied.

"Surely will do," Xander said.

"Chang, you will be late so take the snack box I prepared for you," my mom said after Xander left.

I shoved the snack box inside my backpack, kissed my mom goodbye on her forhead and walked down to the main street to catch up with Xander's fast movements.

"Xander! Wait for me!" I said trying to catch up to him.

He turned his face further away from me, totally ignoring me.

Dang it! I really made him angry this time.

I catched upto Xander and sighed, "I am really sorry, Xander. I know, I always get up late due to which we are often yelled by that oldie. But today, I swear, I didn't mean to get us late."

He still ignored me and kept on walking.

I really pissed him off this time. Maybe I should stop pestering him for sometime, which will work on calming him down. But it's so damn hard to not talk to him even for a second.

Fine, I will give him some time to cool off- I mentally scoffed.

...

Both of us walked inside the cafe to see our old knuckle shelled, Mr Will pacing on the cafe floor with an ugly scowl painted over his face.

He snapped his direction towards us and walked angrily towards us.

"Why are you both late? I swear, it's the hundredth time you boys have been late for work! So, tell me what's the reason behind today's latecoming?"

"Let me guess, you were late because you both were sleeping late as usual," he added.

I wanted to clarify the situation by telling him a lie or half of the truth since he may be merciful enough not to fire us. But before I could answer his question, Xander cut in and said, "Sir, it was my fault. Actually because of my exams I had to study late at night, which caused me to get tired at noon and doze off. I am really sorry, but please forgive us this time."

What the freaking hell? Why did he had to lie, yet take the entire blame on himself?

Due to his sacrificing, yet stupid decision of cleaning my mess...he may get FIRED! What am I going to do with this idiot!

"Oh...so Xander, you made Chang late. Fine, since you are being so humble...you will not get paid for today. And don't plead me for paying you, because you should be grateful that I didn't fire you."

Oh, hell NO!

Even though I am really grateful of Mr. Will not firing my idiot of a friend, but he would still punish Xander for my mistakes.

I know, Xander is in a tight situation due to the lack of money. So, I can't that dumb oldie to cut off his day's wage. Damn this is totally unfair.

I looked at Xander with sorrow and pain knowing that, my stupid ass was the cause for Xander's hard earned money to be lost as he took my blame on his shoulders.

I feel like a awful friend...a stupid shitty friend who caused trouble to his own best buddy knowing that he was tight in situation.

Why the FREAKING HELL did I have to wake up late at the noon!

Whatever I did was wrong, but now I can't even fix this friked up mess!

I should try talking to Xander as I can't tell anything to the manager or speak out the truth as the manager may fire us both because of lying to him.

I went upto Xander for apologising for my friked up mistake, but he just totally ignored me.

Shit, what the hell am I going to do now?

...

~Later that day~

The rest of the time went on me trying to apologise Xander and him avoiding me.

At this moment, I feel so guilty as if I snatched the hard earned wage of my bestfriend or I really did.

I feel like the worst friend ever.....like who ever does something as reckless as I did?

Only if I woke up earlier this noon, then  this wouldn't have happened.

Why the heck do I have to be so reckless?

All this recklessness will get me into  another serious problem like today.

So, I have decided not to be reckless and take responsibility for my activities. And I can only fix this mess by giving up my today's wage to Xander and work overtime with him which I don't do unusually. I don't do overtime as I have not much, but a decent amount of money. But today, I WILL WORK OVERTIME.

I can't tell how much sorry I am today, for causing so much trouble to Xander and the only way I can fix it is by paying my today's money. I also decided that, I will not wake up late from today onwards to avoid any unnecessary troubles like today. One more thing is that, I will never let Xander take my blame and repay in all ways possible. 

From today onwards, my mission is to be more loyal friend to Xander and trust him fully. Today he earned my trust fully by taking up my blame and as much it hurts to say that he had to take my blame....he proved his honesty towards me for which I will always be grateful.

I WILL BE THERE FOR YOU XANDER- I thought.