Loop of lies {FAKE DATING!!}

#5 squeaky grocery cart

as days by the weight on my shoulders was being lifted. it was 11 March already. I aced my math exam surprisingly well, with an unwavering certain about my math exam I find my way to the bus, finding stella and amelia on the second last seat. they ask me where the others are to which I reply "they are coming"

Diya and I grab my phone from the place we hid it in bus's last seat instead of giving it to the teacher before going to our respective classrooms. One more exam to go and the tensity of exams will be rolled off our shoulders. in these crucial 19 days I have lost my capability to sleep, in the last 48 hours I have had three cups of coffee and just six hours of sleep. I didn't sleep last night too but in the early morning my mom saw me studying I told her to not concern herself and that I took a nap and woke up early in the morning to study some more.

'Just two more days' I remind myself

we had information technology exam and as was foreseeable I haven't studying anything for the whole year, I was always more focused on other subjects. dammit, I didn't even have a notebook for it, I never made notes. Don't ask me how I always got away when it was time for checking notebooks of students. And we had tremendous amount of time to study well, i.e. 2 days. definitely enough for studying or revising 12 chapters. I already wanted to relax for the hell of it but after 13 March we will be done and dusted.

With all this stress the only fun activity I did was pouring more lies on Irina and others. every time I am telling them a false story or moment with my fake boyfriend, Annie, and I side eye each other every time, only we know the truth. the way I have crafted my Aiden in ways its almost inch-perfect and sounds like the perfect boyfriend every girl fancy, each and every time stella, amelia, Irina or Diya, at least one of them always tell me that he is definitely the dream fictional guy I have got, and I am fortunate. only if I would really get a guy like that.

A few times, I put fake couple on my story on Instagram to make it more of a vivid relationship. I don't try to overdo it but just enough.

and as I expected Irina became really suspicious on that day seeing the pics I sent her; she directly messaged me saying I have sent her these pictures from Pinterest and my eyes widened to the size of saucers reading that. it's true but how dare you say that, and I obviously panicked a bit but then I sent her the chats screenshots although she wasn't online that time. at evening I texted Annie about that.

21 FEB, 4PM.

texts with Annie:

"dudeeeeee i am doomed"

"what's wrong?"

"She suspected the pics and claimed it to be fake and picked from Pinterest" i reply promptly

"Shit shit shit! did you send her the chats?"

"Yes, i did" as soon as i hit the send button another message pops up, it was Irina, I took a deep breath before checking it.

Irina's texts:

"Aww the texts are so sweet, and your boyfriend really talks like a fictional character, he is like one of those book boyfriends :)" the sigh of relief I took on this one

"Yeah, so now you know i am not lying" i reply finally calmed down

"It isn't like i wasn't trying to believe you, but the pic was too perfect, so I was perplexed anyway I am so happy for you!!"

"Yeah, he is too perfect to be real but here we are Hehe" just me bragging about a boyfriend who doesn't exists

while I am texting Irina, Annie is bombarding messages like crazy asking about the situation I quickly open her flooding messages and first send her the screenshots of my and Irina's texts.