She asked him a question and he replied. A red flag sprung up in her brain... Something seemed off, this couldn't be right. They continued talking for a while and she tried ignoring the voice in her head that began with a whisper and then became loud enough to drown out her thoughts... "He is lying... He is lying to you Suzie Q." She wondered if it were true, he really had no reason to lie about this... It was all in the past, a past that she had no part in.
That night she went back home and tried tracing back his steps... Something seemed amiss... She checked her email on a whim hoping to put her mind at ease. And suddenly there it was... Exactly 5 years ago, he had sent her an email stating the exact opposite of what he just told her a couple of hours back. Her heart sank... and it had nothing to do with the topic at hand. That, in fact, was an insignificant, trivial matter. Something she didn't give a rat's ass about. But the fact that he would lie about something so small made her question his integrity.
This was the man who had once reached out to her with words as gentle as softly falling rain and eyes as warm as the setting sun. The first time she ever asked him to promise her something, he immediately said "I promise" before she could even tell him what she wanted him to commit to. The first time he spoke to her, his voice drizzled upon her like the strains of her favourite music. And the first time he said good night, she spent the night tossing and turning in a dreamless sleep. And now here he was, lying to her about the silliest thing in the world.
She sighed and lay her head back on her pillow. And just as she was about to shut her eyes, her phone lit up with a text from him. "You looked so beautiful this evening. It reminded me of all the lonely evenings I spent before, hoping that you would someday be mine."
She didn't reply.
"Are you awake?" He texted again.
She ignored the text and opened Netflix.
The next morning, she typed, "Hey, sorry! Looks like I dozed off early and missed your messages last night. OMG you say the sweetest things!"
It was her turn to start lying.
That night she went back home and tried tracing back his steps... Something seemed amiss... She checked her email on a whim hoping to put her mind at ease. And suddenly there it was... Exactly 5 years ago, he had sent her an email stating the exact opposite of what he just told her a couple of hours back. Her heart sank... and it had nothing to do with the topic at hand. That, in fact, was an insignificant, trivial matter. Something she didn't give a rat's ass about. But the fact that he would lie about something so small made her question his integrity.
This was the man who had once reached out to her with words as gentle as softly falling rain and eyes as warm as the setting sun. The first time she ever asked him to promise her something, he immediately said "I promise" before she could even tell him what she wanted him to commit to. The first time he spoke to her, his voice drizzled upon her like the strains of her favourite music. And the first time he said good night, she spent the night tossing and turning in a dreamless sleep. And now here he was, lying to her about the silliest thing in the world.
She sighed and lay her head back on her pillow. And just as she was about to shut her eyes, her phone lit up with a text from him. "You looked so beautiful this evening. It reminded me of all the lonely evenings I spent before, hoping that you would someday be mine."
She didn't reply.
"Are you awake?" He texted again.
She ignored the text and opened Netflix.
The next morning, she typed, "Hey, sorry! Looks like I dozed off early and missed your messages last night. OMG you say the sweetest things!"
It was her turn to start lying.
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