Truthful lies

WAR

I started him in the eyes and looked into his soul. He opened his mouth to show his teeth as if he was a wolf. He stared right back at me and could see the desperation in my eyes. I still made a effort despite my unescapable defeat. I wanted to win, but I knew my muscles were giving out on me. I winced with pain but covered it with a laugh to make him think I was confident. He saw right threw my act. "MARK!" I yelled. He had slammed my arm into the table with such force I thought he would break the glass. When we lifted our arms there was sweat where our arms had been laying. I looked up at him as a smile stretched across his face.
"Every time" he almost sang as he stood up to grab an apple off the counter. I looked at him as if he cheated, with judgement in my eyes. He smiled and sat on the couch next to Jamie . Jamie put his arm around mark and accepted him into his blanket. I sat on the seat to the left of them still trying to burn a hole into Mark. Jamie looked at me and saw my glare then took marks apple and bit it. "You shouldn't cheat like that. It's not good for the soul" Jamie smiled as he chewed. "What soul" I said as I put on my reindeer socks that my dad had just sat on the couch beside me, Still warm. Jamie laughed and said "good point" as mark scoffed and said "as if I needed to cheat. You can't even cheat in arm wrestling". Jamie smiled and said "just like we thought you couldn't cheat at thumb wrestling but you still found a way". Mark tried to hide his smile and said"that wasn't my fault". He was referring to the time he was thumb wrestling with my dad and had put Vaseline on the top of his thumb. Jamie smiled at mark and kissed him saying"yeah, your just talented" mark smiled into their kiss and I continued to stare at the movie playing on the screen in front of us.