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My mommy and daddy are good, honest people. Daddy likes to tell me that my cape is on wrong and then bop my nose. Daddy’s face always smiles more when he tells me that my cape is on wrong.
Granddaddy tells mommy, daddy, uncle Valant, and uncle Roger that he’s proud of them after a show. Granddaddy swallows while he says this, mommy notices that as well.
Mommy one day tells me that I can see when people lie. Mommy doesn’t seem to do anything when she tells me this.
Mommy wasn’t lying to me.
But not everyone lies. Mommy is a good example of that.
When I grow older, mommy goes away. When daddy, granddaddy, and uncle Valant tell me that she’ll come back, granddaddy swallows, daddy smiles at me, and uncle Valant’s pointer finger squeezes like he does when he’s doing the awesome trick with daddy.
I know that they’re lying to me, but I know I shouldn’t say anything about it right now.
One day, granddaddy gets really, really sick. He can’t move very well. Granddaddy tells me that he’ll be okay. But he swallowed, I know that he won’t be okay.
One night, Daddy tells me that he’s gonna go visit granddaddy and to not leave my bed until either uncle Valant or daddy comes back.
For once, daddy isn’t smiling at me. He’s being so serious for once, it’s scary. I don’t like when he doesn’t smile at me.
The next day, I get told that daddy isn’t going to come back. Daddy is being held in custody because he did something bad to granddaddy.
I managed to leave and see daddy, but he was behind this wall of glass.
It felt wrong. Daddy lied to me.
Uncle Valant stood beside me, every time he spoke about last night to daddy, his pointer finger squeezed.
It took a while, but daddy was in the court house and I wanted some water. I remember going up to these two people and asking for some help because daddy was being talked to by the spiky haired man.
That’s when this man with drill hair leaned down to me and handed me a paper. It was in granddaddy’s handwriting, the man told me to give it to the old boy in blue to save my daddy.
His hand was placed on my back and he was smiling, it was a comforting smile. I never want to forget how nice it looked.
Later that day, daddy disappeared. He never told me that he was going to come back, he just told me to wait for him.
Then the old boy in the blue suit took me in. He is a nice guy, smart and honest. I later find out that the paper in granddaddy’s handwriting wasn’t real and the old boy in the blue suit lost his job because of me.
I guess lying runs in the family, because I lied to everyone around me by being nice.
One day, the old boy in the blue suit told me it would be okay to call him daddy, but only if I found it comfortable.
I’m so happy to have a new daddy! He wasn’t even lying when he said it, so it makes it all better.
Just him and me, against the world.
One day, daddy brought the man with drill hair back. He smiled at me and shook my hand. He told me that his name was Kristoph Gavin.
I don’t really like Mr. Gavin. He seems off, but daddy likes him so I don’t say a thing.
Sometimes Mr. Gavin says something to daddy while I’m sitting on his lap, they’re strange things.
The time he told daddy that he trusted him while fixing his glasses, his hand looked evil. Like a demon cut its way into him.
Mr. Gavin did not trust daddy. So this time, I told daddy after Mr. Gavin left.
Daddy told me that he knew. He wasn’t lying when he said that.
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell when people are lying, but when it’s as big as that, it’s hard to miss.
Many years later, I meet Polly for the first time. He’s smart and familiar for some reason. I do a card trick for him and give him evidence that daddy got from the scene, at least that’s what he told me. I can’t tell if he’s lying or not.
As the months go by, I’m working with Polly again. I now know that whenever he lies, he swallows to clear his throat. It’s just like granddaddy.
When we go out to the Gavineers concert, nobody expected it to end the way it did. In the courtroom, Lamiroir swallows. It’s the same swallow as granddaddy and Polly.
I know who Lamiroir is now. I guess mommy did come back.
Sometime after that, Kristoph is on the stand trying to profess his innocence. Polly sees the demon inside of Kristoph, and that’s the last time I ever have to see him.
When I met Athena, I was second guessing everything. Was she Apollo’s best friend? I remember asking her some questions and I found out that her nose scrunches up when she lies.
I’ve noticed other things as well, whenever daddy told me that everything was gonna be alright when I was younger, he would almost point his pointer finger.
Old habits die hard, at least that’s what the world said about him.
I guess everyone lies, it doesn’t feel amazing when it’s directed at me, or if it’s directed at my family or those who I care about. I’m just content to know that the lies have stopped in my agency.
After all, I can’t handle loosing another family member to the idiocy of a death defying stunt.