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"There are too many people here. Let's go outside." "Who needs to hide from the public eye? It's you!" I wrenched my arm free, my face burning red, and screamed hysterically, "You and Mom and Dad—working together to deceive me! Telling me the family went bankrupt, that we owed money, telling me you were testing haunted houses! "But in reality? They were traveling abroad, and you came home every day to relax! The only one suffering all this time… was me!" My control snapped. Tears poured down my face.

"There were signs that not everything was okay around him. He started having secrets. He put a huge mortgage on our house without telling me about it." My stomach drops. "What?" "When I found out, I went crazy. We had several arguments." Her voice is barely audible now, like confession spoken in the dark. "But he was being secretive about his dealings, obviously hiding things from me. I kept asking what was wrong, but he wouldn't explain. Just kept saying everything would be fine, that he was handling it." The hospital room tilts sideways. Dad — my anchor, my hero, the man I trusted above everyone else— had been... lying. Not just to me, but to Mom too. Building walls of deception around pro

"I underestimated you. Let's just get a divorce." Disappointment weighed on my chest. Back then, I cut ties with my family to be with her and even lowered myself to being a food delivery guy just to help pay back her debt. She had lied to me all these years, saying she needed more than two part-time jobs to make ends meet. It turned out she had lied. The last thing I would ever imagine was that I was living in a hoax. She was hiding everything… even another man. Our family had been nothing but a big, fat lie.

"Let's take this outside." "You're the one with something to hide!" My eyes burned as I wrenched my hand from her grip and screamed at the top of my lungs. "You, Mom, and Dad—you all conspired to lie to me! You lied about us being bankrupt, lied about the debt, lied about those 'haunted-house sleep tests' you were supposedly doing!" I choked on a sob. "But what's the actual truth? They're traveling the world, and you're going home to a warm bed every night. I was the only one truly suffering this whole damn time!"

At the end of the day, we all have no one to rely on but ourselves. The house is pretty much the same as another average next-door residence. Dull brown wallpaper and cheap wooden floors. All he had to do was ask and he’d have a better house than this but the little shit was stubborn. Maybe his wife would have been content staying at home if he had invested in some luxuries. “Make this quick. I have to work early tomorrow.” I pulled my gaze away from the dreary wall hangings and went straight to the point. “You lied to us.”

An orphan? Now I was definite that there was something shady going on. She told me she had a big family, and not just that, she'd told me possibly hundreds of stories of the said family, there's no way that any of it could have been a lie. I paused in my reading as I thought over my memories, the nagging feeling in my chest told me that there was far more to this story than what I could see, and this family is just the tip of the iceberg. Nevertheless, at least for now, I continued to read.

"Well, we wanted to buy this villa, but you bought it in the end, right? Both of us posted on social media for a long time that we're getting this villa. All our family and friends know about it. So, we didn't dare tell them the truth after you bought the villa and kept insisting that we've bought it… "We're to be blamed for having such pride." Boris pretended to slap himself. "We thought that we could save enough to buy a villa here, but we haven't been able to do that. Just a few days ago, my mother-in-law called and asked to visit our new villa. We're going to be exposed, so we decided to look for you here."

The hell? "Um...about that..." I touched the back of my neck. "I'm already in contact with my roommate, we thought it was best to get to know each other before we resumed. And she has a little family problem, her Mom got into an accident so she won't be resuming anytime soon." I lied like a pro while keeping my head up high so they wouldn't find any loopholes in my story. "Oh my God, that's really bad." My Mum said with disappointment written all over face.

She lied, hiding the truth that was far too unbelievable to share with anyone. “Hmm, that’s nice,” Marvina said while looking through the content in her handbag. “But, where did you buy it? I might as well try this shower gel.” “It was, um, from an old shop that was closing down a long time ago.” Jennet spewed another lie to cover the truth. “Oh, that’s a pity. But, do you know if they have another branch somewhere?” Marvina glanced at her. “Oh, it was the only shop in my residence back in my country. I don’t know much about their new branch because I went there once before I came here. Last I heard, they were closing down because of debt.” Jennet narrated a smooth lie.