You can't lie

It had been exactly a month since the liar gas was exposed. It all started in a science lab. It was supposed to be kept a secret by the inventors but one of the scientists had been careless enough to allow the release of the dangerous gas into the atmosphere.  At first, the government tried to conceal this secret, hoping it would go unnoticed by the public. But then, things grew worse. It wasn't even a minute old after a lie when the victim would cough and fall to their knees, then pass away. Once the citizens noticed, they tried to migrate to other countries, but at a rapid pace, every country in the world was hit. My first experience was with Sasha Mark, we were all in the school hallway. My friends, Berry, Casey, Jane, and I. Sasha was our school's popular. She liked everyone and got the mutual feelin

"Are you insane?" Grace attacked, pulling away and keeping me at arms length, running her eyes all over me in scrutiny. It was great to see her face again. She looked beautiful than I remembered.One month had never felt so long. "I tried every possible way to contact you! God knows I was tempted to come to your house. Why would you think of ignoring my calls. I was so creeped out. I thought if I didn't see you here, I was going to make my way to your house regardless of the circumstances." She pulled away, noticing my reluctance to give her a response."You didn't return any of my texts, Ariyah, what's wrong?" She scanned her eyes through me.I hated for her to walk away like Jane, without knowing the cause of my silence. I breathed heavily, not knowing what to do. I pulled my phone put and typed aggressively, ignoring her worried face.*I'm sorry but I can no longer talk to you. I have decided to be a mu

"But how would you know that?" I squinted my eyes at him.  "Because Ariyah, whosoever they pointed fingers at is an actual dead man. They are trying to put the blame on someone." He stood to his feet, his hands behind his back. 

"M..mom?" I called with a gasp. This was plain doom for me. "How did you get your hands on that?" The living room appeared to be spinning. Our house usually looked disordered. The brown couches were tightly packed together, every desk had a lamp on it, thanks to my mother, multiple fish tanks lined the demarcation between the kitchen and the living room. All of that detail seemed choking at the moment.  

"Ariyah, where on earth are  you running to? For the love of God, wait up!" Grace continued to chant from behind me. It was disturbing how she wouldn't give up. How could Luke have been so careless  to let such vital information escape his mind? "Out of my way!" I pushed aside an innocent redhead taking a selfie and doing the peace sign.&nbs