How are you today?

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Forgot to mention.

I stumbled into Sam quite often these days. He smiled but I avoided him. I make sure to take a separate elevator to be away from him.

But truthfully I miss him as a friend. Sam was the first guy that I made friend with after I joined the company that I'm working with right now. He joined his company few months earlier than me.

Most of his friends that ridiculed me have left the company. Sam was promoted to a higher position but he's alone now. Well Nick is around. But i rarely see him.

Yesterday I had lunch with my colleagues in a shopping mall's food court. Sam sat few tables apart. He ate his his lunch alone.

Last week both of us had our lunch with our colleagues in the same food court. We sat quite close to each other. At one point, Sam just looked at me.

I feel guilty. As much as I want to have him back as friend, I can't. I keep remembering what his friends did. He followed them because well, they are his friends and colleagues.

Maybe I should give him a chance as it wasn't his fault to begin with. Maybe I should volunteer to apologize. I miss him a lot. I'm torn.

Maybe I should mend my relationship with Nick too.

Don't you dare apologise, you did nothing wrong....it was YOU that was wronged, and a real friend would have stepped up and put a stop to what happened to you...WHO exactly did that?

Nick is a collegue, not a friend. Friends look out for each other, step up when required.

An old saying...a friend is someone that will bail you out of police lock-up, a real friend is the one sitting next to you in police lock up.

Nick didn't even bail you out.