Loyana's true lies.

Loyana took great pleasure in mixing reality with fiction. She'd effortlessly put across her own version of the truth without thinking about the consequences. The first of her true lies started off with a comment by Cody that he'd spent most of his life in army schools. That was it.
She started off on her then boyfriend who was also an army school product. The way she talked about him you would have thought that she was madly in love with him. Probably she was, but then you never knew with her.

This was the story she spun out that day--

I met him for the first time when I needed help with my computer. I had just broken up with my toyboy of the moment. He wanted to "make love" to me and I didn't want to. He left me standing in the middle of a forest clearing. At midnight. 20 kilometers from home. I walked home that night thinking that I'd never get entangled with anyone ever again and just my luck that I fell in love the very next day.

I'd gone home on foot in the dead of the night and by 8 a.m my mom shook me awake. I'd asked her to and it was one of those few times that she did. Not out of motherly concern but because she had found an old photograph of me. No, the photograph was rather flattering because it was taken at twilight but it was the background that did me in..........