I put my phone away and saw Xander sitting there in a daze. I asked, "Aren’t we going for dinner? Are you going to meet your old classmates like that?"
In a day, not only had he grown a stubble but his hair was also unkempt from just having woken up. I wondered what his fans would think of him when they saw how untidy he looked.
Upon being reminded, he got up to go to the bathroom and quickly came out looking like the same shining star he had always been.
It was important to dress up regardless of whether one was a man or woman.
I walked out of the hotel with Xander and hailed a cab to a nearby estate, where there were separate cabins. Each of them was spaced far apart with maximum privacy.
His former classmates were pretty considerate people as they had chosen this place to eat so the fans would not discover them.
I thought this was a reunion at first and there would b e a lot of people, but it turned out that there were only three. Xander introduced us to each other. Only then did I learn that they were his university roommates.
Wine was inevitable at a men's party. The men spoke and drank, gradually growing tipsy.
"So, are you still single? Say, you're such a capable man yet you don't even have a woman beside you. Others will pity you if they learn about this,” said one o f the male classmates while looking at Xander.
"You know how loyal Xander is. Do you remember the first semester of freshman year? He got himself drunk and started crying, forcing us to find his crush. How could we possibly know who his crush was? When he sobered up the next day, he wouldn't tell us her name no matter what. Since then, he has become completely unreachable. No opposite gender dared to come three feet close to him."
All the men except Xander were excited to talk about the past. He glanced at me and drank his wine in silence. It was rare for him to be silent.
I did not know that Xander was actually so loyal. It was hard to tell from how he normally behaved.
The dinner continued late into the night. The men were drunk, and Xander had completely passed out.
As the only person who had not drunk, I hailed a cab for each of them according to the addresses they told me. I then got the attendants to put them in the cars.
The cab pulled over in front of the hotel's entrance. Xander was still asleep and I had to exert a lot of
strength to drag him out of the car.
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