Seeing the topics for this week made me remember one of the biggest lies I told while growing up due to peer pressure and wanting to be among the big girls' cliques in school. I couldn't stop laughing, although it's something I can laugh over now, but when it happened, I couldn't because I had to look serious to avoid suspicions. Sometimes we do things that we don't think of their consequences before doing them; only after they have boomeranged do we realize how foolish we have been.
In my second year in college, I wanted to have a boyfriend just as my friend does. I wanted to go into a relationship and experience what my friends were talking about, but unfortunately, this is not allowed in my house. My parents are so strict that they frown at me even when they see me talking with a man. Knowing fully well that my parents are against this, I don't know how to go about keeping my relationship because I won't be allowed to go out if he demands we see him and to worsen the situation, I don't have a mobile phone for communication.
I had a crush, though, or should I say someone is crushing on me? I'm a shy type, so I don't show my feelings; it's not something I do, so this made me play hard to get roles very well. To cut a long story short, I got a boyfriend. I should be happy, right? Well, I was, but it was partial happiness because it was going to be a boring relationship, and that was my first ever relationship as a teenager. Being in love is a good feeling, and being the first was overwhelming. Now I had to deploy a means of seeing him, and luckily his house isn't far from mine; it was just a stone's throw away, and it was on the same street, but communication was a big challenge. Sometimes I do use my mom's phone to text him and delete it immediately, just not to get caught.
I remembered that Jehovah's Witnesses do visit our house every two days to preach, and most of the time my mom did ask me to attend to them, so I guess that's a good one to use. We made a plan for him to come as a Jehovah's Witness with his sister and also a friend of mine in the neighborhood, and that was the craziest thing I've ever done. And voila, our plan worked. He does come around every two days with others posing as a Jehovah's Witness preacher, and I didn't think of anything else but being happy that my plan worked. We did that for several weeks, but something huge was about to come, which would disrupt my whole plan.
One afternoon after my co-planners left, my mom asked why the same set of people kept coming over and over again. I knew my plan was about to be blown up, but I couldn't tell my parents that my boyfriend is the preacher, and that was the biggest lie I ever told them. She decided to answer them the next time they came around. Fortunately for me, I was sent out to get some things. I rushed to his house to inform him that that plan isn't going to work anymore and tell him about my mom's move whenever they come around. Then we had to come up with a new plan, and what was going to become the bone of contention? After lots of thinking, we couldn't come up with something reasonable, so we had to settle for seeing her once in a while when I'm being sent on an errand.
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