What a strange situation. Boss asked every employee to come to his office. What happened? Only I knew the answer to this question. Somebody tore the cheque I filled in. Since I work in the reputable bank and I had to work hard to get this job, immediately after getting to know what has happened I felt very insecure and stressed.
We all met in front of the boss office. Each of these suspecious so called friends was giving face like they feel soo annoyed. Boss wasn´t there so we had to wait. In such situation every second seems to be neverending. We all joined the bank just few months ago, we all thought we were friends, we were almost at the same age, young inexperienced boys and moreover we all thought we could rely on each other. Finally our boss appeared with very strict and worried face. „Come in, boys.“ he said. Each banker took his seat and the boss started investigation. „Well, I am shocked but there is a rat among us. Somebody who is able to deliberately tear the cheque his colleague filled in, I am sure somebody like this has nothing to do here. I consider it totally silly and I feel very sad to deal with this. Actually, I am talking about our great worker David. Today in the morning he came to me and shared what happened. Each of them looked at me, I felt weird but I was sure every body would do the same in my situation, every body would complain to boss. Every issue like this is very emberassing and each of suspecious boys was trying to impress the boss with his innocent explanation. Anyway, it didn´t work, vice versa it made him more furious. Later he announced: „I will call the police!! I can see that each employee makes silly excuses and we should involve the police in this matter. Let´s see if we can catch the villain. He paused and continued: „Boys, remember that every man should behave as real man but here I can see only little scared cowards!!“ yelled the boss.
All of a sudden Peter stood up and said: „Sir, it was me.“
Each colleague including boss was staring at him with open mouth and asked: „Whyyyy?“ He just added after few seconds of silence: „I felt jealous of his popularity and it made me insane.“
The boss was thinking how to react. Every word he was about to say wasn´t good enough to express how disappointed he was. In the end he just said: „Ok, I appreciate you decided to confess and I will think about the way how to punish you.“ He left the room and each of us realized we would never be the friends we used to be.
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Great story! You had me glued to the page from start to finish!
English tip: The word "everybody is usually one word and means the same as "everyone" (all of the people). You can use it as two words if you're actually talking about the body: "Every body is different. Some bodies are tall and thin and other bodies are short and stout. "
Q. What language is your keyboard set to, Luzzi? The quotation marks ("....") in your dialogue looks strange. It's no biggie, but I was just wondering how you made it look like that.
well...we did, we do and we will do mistakes in future, but it's not fair to hate, start ignoring and break friendship.
At least he's brave and man enough to admit his mistake.
Well, I think it's not a right thing to do by not considering him your friends. I know he has done something bad but you can't really punish him forever.
Nice writing and nice blog....I really like such blogs based on such stories.