Chapter 17

'Tonight, I want everyone to take this seriously. What we are doing right now is part of our very long tradition.

Everyone looked at Sir Michael, we saw how he moved from his chair and put the blue cup facing down upwards.

'The truth is I hate teaching children, I only loved the high salary they paid me to teach.' He said with a smirk on his face, as a devil reincarnate. This is Sir Michael's other personality. When we became seniors, we called him a two-eyed monster.

He stood from his chair and someone came to take out the chair he sat on and he walked outside our circle. we can hear his footsteps.

'Now it's your turn, I don't care who goes first but one of those cups needs turning, if you can't do it, put the cups together and push it to the center of the circle, it means you are forfeiting to our game.' He said.

The atmosphere was serious and some don't know what to do until we saw two pairs of cups swiftly sliding to the center of the room, to the center of our circle. We looked at the people who did it.

'Marisa and Marine are out.' Sir Michael said, If I remember correctly, they are the girls that are usually with Keila. just like in the past, it was the same people who forfeited first.

'This is just a game' One of them reasons out.

I sighted.

Before anyone and slide their cups to the center, I put both of my cups in front of me upwards.

'Elisia, what does this means?' he asked

Everyone saw what I've done and I smiled.

This is the game of Truth and Lies. This is an old tradition of the school that will make oneself reflect. This is a game that will make bonds stronger. But this game has a great weakness.

Only a few know how the real game works, the only people who will know are those people that will complete the game at the end. The instructor will decide if everyone passes or not and if passed, he will explain the true history and story about the game.

I learned about this through a close senior after we graduate. He told me this secret and he knows about it because he and his classmates passed the game, the game of truth and Lies.

The game usually starts without the instructor saying how the game works. He will only give an example and few clues and it's in the class who will decide how it will work and that is the weakness.

The result will usually vary from each class and ended differently.

I heard there was this class that ended with everyone forfeiting, there was this class who made the game a joke, there's also this one who simplified it saying

'The truth is I love bags.' 'The truth is I hate mangoes.' 'I lied about wanting to be a doctor.' and such. They all failed.

'The truth is I'm an orphan.' And I saw how my classmate's eyes widen. I saw Alex looking at me with confusion.

I guess everything will change from now on.

It will start with the game they call Truth or Lies.

Actually, it has another term

My senior also called it

The game of Confessions.

And I Elisia Sapphira W. Martin, has lots of confessions to make.