How to lie ✔️

Chapter 11

***words***

"Words. Words are tricky to put together, and make them make sense. It's hard to please everyone with words. It's hard to make words flow." I began my speech about Jake.

"...Jake was my close friend. He was more then a friend. He was my boyfriend. We had gone to the same pre-school, had both moved from California to New Jersey, and we both liked each other."

"Jake was a very special person in my life. He was my very special person in life. We had so much in common, so much to learn about each other..." I continued my speech, but after there it got really boring.

After all, I hated my life right now.

Jake was gone. I loved Jake. And he was dead.

And Sarah, oh Sarah...she was gone too.

Now all I have is a friend who is a criminal, a broken heart, and a community who hates me.

I finished my speech and walked home.

*

December 1st

I was falling again.

Except this time not on the floor.

I was falling for him.

He was falling for me.

"Ryan?" I whispered, as I lightly tapped his head.

"Yeah?" He whispered back.

"Thanks for this." I whispered, as we watched the movie together.

"No problem. My treat." He replied, trying to make this as much as not a date as possible.

But we both knew we both wanted it to be a date.

But we were both too scared to make it real.

We watched the movie together; a daughter of a villain tries to kill the 'hero' who killed her father.

Sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!

"Your dead now."

BOOM.

The lights flickered on in the theater. It was the end of the movie.

"What? That's it? She dies?" Ryan complained.

"I guess so." I chuckled.

"That was a horrible movie." Ryan laughed, shaking his head and throwing some popcorn at the screen.

"Ryan!" I yelled, trying to stop him.

"But she dies! That's not fair!" He pouted.

"Yeah I know. Now let's go!" I laughed.

"Fine." He glared at me but he eventually stood up.

"Well at least it was fun hanging out, Elliot." Ryan said after a while, as we walked out. We put our 3-D glasses in the black endless bin.