I was talking to my best friend this afternoon. She met with a group of people last night to discuss our twenty year high school reunion. I can’t believe it’s already upon us but yes indeed it is. Gah that is crazy.

Anyway we gossiped about people of our past and she caught me up with a few. Then she mentioned someone we’d known, actually hung out with waay back in the day before we realized what a LIAR she was. Well we’d always assumed a certain something (we’d heard the rumor) had happened to her once we graduated school and now there was the possibility that maybe that thing hadn’t happened after all.

And that is kinda HUGE. I don’t want to get into any details but all I can think is, “Man what a lie that all was!”

So did any of you lie when you were younger?

Of course as writers we make up stuff all the time. And I still tell the occasional white lie. But have you ever told a grand ol’ whopper of a lie, especially when you were a kid?

I told my fair share but I shall confess the BIG one. I was ten. I’d been moved around a lot for a few years and I started a new school a few months into the year. I didn’t know anyone. They knew nothing about me. So I told one girl I had seven brothers and sisters.

Mind you I was an only child at the time (my lone brother came almost two years later) and I wanted those siblings so bad! Eight is Enough was my favorite TV show! I made up all kinds of stories about my “family,” I even had names. (I remember one of them – one of my sister’s names was Lindsay.)

I was living the dream – a big house full of wonderful brothers and sisters! It was all crap. I finally had to confess my stories to my friend and if I remember correctly she told me she really didn’t believe me anyway. She was still my friend, though!

Of course I moved that summer and went to yet another school the next year. Stayed with those kids all through junior high and beyond too. In fact that’s the school where I met my bestest friend.

So come on. I confessed my wanna-be Eight is Enough lie. Share a childhood lie with me.