"Guys." I said in shock. They all leaned in to see the message. Once they read it, their jaws dropped so hard, I think I saw Derek's hit the floor. "I can't believe this?!" Said Aaron. I replied with, "I can't either, and I'm the one who wrote the message!" I looked over to Gene, they had their hands on their head, looking like they were having a whole crisis. "My life is a lie." They said. We were all just standing there trying to wrap our heads around what I had just typed to the person that messaged me, profile name being "Conspirator4". Very cheesy name. As we were standing in shock, another message from Conspirator4 had been sent. "Does the moon even exist?" they asked. I mean, of course, after getting such an answer to a question Kim hat, one would wonder if the moon was fake. The message I had replied with reading, "the moon we see is nothing but a mere hologram projection that is made using extremely advanced technology." this made the fact sink even deeper, the U.S government has lied. They who have fed us information, such that has been false in the media on its own, twisted by others to fit their beliefs. But those conspiracies were right, at least the moon landing and existence of the moon at all. Gene had been reading over my shoulder as we walked along the hallway, Aaron and Derek were reading as well, when I looked I saw that their expressions were ones of surprise, my face probably looked about the same. To clarify, I don't have much control over my powers. Well, I do, it just so happens that I also get the strong urge to mostly blurt out the answer when it pops into my head. This has led me to conclude that I wouldn't be able to keep a secret, that is if someone had asked me a question about other people's secrets. This happened once in fifth grade. One of our classmates, whom I cannot remember the name of, being that they had moved shortly after this incident, had kept the secret that they were still wetting the bed due to issues involving a UTI. I couldn't help but overhear a group of our classmates, Max Bender had been amongst them, so that was a sign that this would end up bad given what I and said. They jokingly asked amongst themselves, "I wonder if Magison still wets her bed, haha." they laughed, and I, having absolutely no filter and my powers, replied with, "Yes, she does."
This had caused Magison to be bullied, and teased by Max and the other fifth grade bullies constantly, to the point where she would come home crying every day. This went on for the rest of the five months we had left of that school year, worst part was, she moved before I could apologize and explain why I said that, she figured out that I had said that, having no clue how knew. Every time I tried to talk to her, she would always run away from me. She avoided me constantly, and then she and her family moved out to the midwest. If you can't tell, this had been eating at me for a while, concluding that kids are stupid sometimes, including myself, plus I'm in high school now and I no longer hold a grudge over myself for that.
"What else has our government lied to people about? Did aliens land in Roswell, or was it a weather balloon as they had said?" Aaron ended up asking. This had been followed by me immediately thinking, and saying, "it was aliens, the weather balloon thing was a cover-up so people would stop questioning it." I said. This same question was asked by another conspiracy theory account, to which I replied with the same answer. All of this information had already begun to way heavily on my mind, so for my own good, as well that of my friends, a shut off my phone completely for the rest of the school day. But it knew when I got home, I had to tell Jace. "Tal, just answer a few more, please. Everyone needs to know about these things!" Gene said. "I know, I want them to know these things too, I have already posted my responses to those questions on all my accounts, the world will know the truth to at least those questions for now." I replied. The rest of the day I had spent being burdened with thoughts about those messages, I can't even begin to fathom why the government would lie to us like that. Maybe it was for our safety? Whatever the reason, my gut feeling is that the people deserve to know. But the more I thought about it, the more worried I got. There's a reason people keep secrets, not always to be mysterious, but to protect others, or themselves. "Maybe I'm starting to get into something that I shouldn't be getting into." I thought. I immediately shoved that thought out of the way as I heard the bell ring for lunch.
The cafeteria, a noisy, and pale-colored room, also served as our assembly hall, gym, and shelter when it was too rainy, or snowy for the bus kids to wait outside for their buses. I guess I failed to mention that Loterdale high school, despite being in California, cannot afford to add more rooms to the building. It also doesn't help that the school personnel spend more than half the school budget on the shitty sports program. I really wouldn't complain if the last sports game my school's teams had won had not been in 1942. The school had been established in the 1920s, getting its first football team established six years later. From what I've seen about the school's history, you cannot say that they dominated our district in the sports category, but they were better than they are now. It is a shame that the school's Fine Arts programs don't get as much money as sports do. I might be biased, but I would say that Loterdale high has some of the best, and most talented actors, musicians, and other artists that I've seen in my life. My sibling, Jace, had even won an award for "Best Actor" in our region. They were allowed to do theatre stuff in high school because my parents had said that once they became a scientist, they wouldn't have much time for hobbies like acting, so it's best to do it as much as they could while still in high school. Jace never had the heart to tell them that they had fallen in love with theatre, and acting, so that is is why they didn't choose to major in Acting. It reminds me of when Jace came out as Non-binary to them about three years ago. My parents were more accepting of that than some other parents would be, which is a good thing. But the thing is, my parents think most actors do nothing but "play pretend" as they would put it. They are adamant that Jace and I are to be Scientists and scientists only.
That may be where the part where Jace and I differ the most, they are more worried about disappointing our parents, more of a rule follower around them. I am not that way, sure I behave around my parents, but I have no intentions to become a scientist, I also haven't told my parents about this, but honestly, I don't think I need to because my dream isn't the same as the one they have for me, and if rather be exposing truths than becoming a scientist. I am not that interested in science either, Jace finds it a bit more interesting than I do, but often struggles with it. Of course I don't want to disappoint them, but at the end of the day I just wanna do what makes me happy, and that's telling people what they deserve to know, especially with the information I have just learned today.