She believed
everything she was ever told. From a young age Lilly was always
taught to tell the truth, she had always assumed that the rest of the
world knew that as well. It was a blind faith that she had in people
and grade school wasn’t much different from home. She figured sense
the teachers were smart, they must know everything too and only speak
the truth. Her classmates would tell her such amazing stories about
Paris, or the magical creature that gave them every answer to
homework. She never once thought to doubt them. She had no reason to.
Her life went on around her as she kept her head up in the clouds. It
suited her well.
High school
started and was beyond eye opening. Lilly had many firsts in those
days. Her first crush. Rayden was the star of the football team and
everyone wanted him. Lilly followed her friends and listened to them
talk about him. How hot he was, how someone else heard a dirty rumor
about him. The girls would fly into a fit of giggles each time.
“Hey Lilly
wait up!”
Hearing her
name but not recognizing the voice, Lilly turned around. Her jaw
almost dropped open with surprise. “Rayden, what’s up?” Her
head cocked a bit as she spoke, it was an odd behavior but one that
she had picked up.
Heather
squealed at the news she was just told. “He’s such a player! Are
you really going to go out with him?”
“Is he
really?” Lilly pulled her legs up against her chest. “I don’t
know who to believe, he seemed so nice and genuine.” Her brain spun
as she sat there with her best friend.
Three days
later Heather picked up her phone without thinking twice. She spoke
into the phone, concern in her voice. “Are you okay? I didn’t
hear from you after your date!” Her words flowed out at what seemed
like five hundred words a minute.
Lilly on the
other hand was holding herself back. Her tone was low and there was a
hint of tears in her voice. “The stories were right, you were
right. It was terrible.” Heather could hear the tears start to fall
from her eyes.
In that moment,
she believed everything that she had ever heard.
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