Tell The Truth Novels & Stories

“Pero ang sabi niya, hindi raw si Abigail ‘yon. Bakit mo kailangang magsinungaling?” Natahimik siya bago magkibit-balikat. “Babae pa rin naman ang kasama niya, hindi ba? Anong pinagkaiba no'n?” "Kaya mo lang ba ‘yon sinabi para masaktan ako?” Tinitigan niya ako sa mga mata. “Hindi ko kailangan magsinungaling para masaktan ka, Arielle. Truth always hurt, you know?"

"Paano pa ako babangon nito? Lugmok na lugmok na ako. Ayoko ng maniwala sa kanila. Feeling ko anything na sasabihin nila mali. May butas ulit. Hindi totoo. Ayoko ng makarinig ng kasinungalingan ulit. Nag sasawa na ako." "Pain was your teacher. Trust me. Kaya ako naging ganito kasi pain trains me. Pain teach me how to fight. Teach me how know the truth. Teach me how to accept lies and turn that lies into truth. Just absorb it. And from that pain you'll know the reason why you are fighting. What you are fighting for." "But its killing me."

“I told him the truth. Sinabi kong tayo na.” Mabilis akong napalingon sa kaniya. “Lukas, bakit mo sinabi 'yon? Dapat hindi mo muna sinabi sa kaniya. Masasaktan siya.” Kumunot ang noo niya. “Why not? It's the truth, Blair. Hindi naman pwedeng itago mo ang katotohanan tungkol sa atin. Saka, deserve niyang malaman. Kapag sinekreto natin sa kaniya ay mas masasaktan siya.”

"you said she will hurt if we tell the truth po..so if the truth hurt..what's more lie can do po Dada..mas masasaktan siya kapag Nagsinungaling tayo po" natigilan ako sa sinabi ng anak ko.. If truth hurts..what's more lie can do? Iniisip yun ni Jj samantalang ako,Hindi ko naiisip na baka mas masaktan siya sa kasinungalingang pilit kong tinatago..

----- I want to say yes, oo may kapatid ako, oo tama ka Sopia ang pangalan niya pero bakit ang hirap sa part ko na aminin. I want to know the truth kung bakit hindi mo ako makilala. Hindi ko na kayang magtiis pa Stella. --- "Inaantok na ako, hindi ka pa ba uuwi?" "I want to sleep here." Nanlaki ang mata ko sa sinabi niya. "Nahihibang kana ba?!" "Seryoso ako." "Iisa lang ang kwarto dito. Hindi tayo pwedeng matabi." Kinakabahan na ani ko.

Baka masalisihan nila ako. "Where are you?" he asked. "Buying archi things. Why?" I lied. Ang dami ko nang kasinungalingan sa buhay. They said, it's easier to say the truth than to lie. Because you don't need to memorize. But why is that a lot of people kept on lying? It's because we need to lie to protect something. Either our secret or the truth that could ruin everything… and to protect someone. "Nothing. Just checking on you. You know, Atty. Ibasco issue."

“Sorry din, Sir Luke. Akala ko talaga nagsinungaling ka sa akin. Akala ko…” “Ssshhh, stop.” agad niya akong sinaway. “Just… don’t accuse me right away. If something’s bothering you, ask me first. Talk to me. Don’t jump to conclusions like that. Ayoko ng ganun. Ayoko sa lahat ay ang inaakusahan at niloloko ako. Ayoko din ng sinungaling at nagtatago ng lihim sa akin. If there’s something wrong, I want honesty. I want the truth. Always. Is that clear?”

I told him facing the floor, acting like I'm about to breakdown. Tumingala ako at tinitigan siya pabalik. I'm freaking freezing here dahil sa undergarments lang ang suot ko ngayon. This fvckin man really knows how to let me hate his guts. Nakakabwisit siya. If I could just end everything by telling you the truth and take everything what's mine, then I would. But knowing that it's not that easy because its the truth itself, I'll be like getting ready to suicide and putting a foot on my own grave. He must never know the truth about me. Not this early. And not like this.

Gusto kong malaman kung bakit hindi niya ako magawang pagkatiwalaan, kung bakit tila siya may galit sa akin. But I know I will never get to understand him. His principle is solid, he wants the truth and only but the truth. But now I realized, there are different versions of truth. The truth he wants to believe, the things that looks like the truth but are not, and the truth which is the truest. We all believe not with the truth but on what we think is real. Nakita kong umilaw ang laptop niya sa dilim. He's sitting infront of the round-table and he's been calling a lot of people earlier. Natigil lang saglit at ngayon ay ang laptop naman ang kaniyang binuksan.

Na ang kasinungalingan kong iyon ang magiging pundasyon ng lahat ng ito. Now that everything’s real… the truth might destroy her. Hindi niya kailangang malaman. Hindi niya kailangang pasanin pa ang bigat ng lahat. She already lost so much.