Chapter 5 – A big fat lie

In the evening when three of them were watching TV, there was president’s speech on.
- “Get ready to hear some lies.” Christina said.
- “You’re lying.” Pete told her.
- “Yes I am. Get ready to hear lots of lies.” She corrected herself.
- “Oh God, I wonder what kind of crap he is going to say.” Vince wondered.
- “He gives speeches 3 times a week.” Christina mentioned.
All three of them began carefully listening to president’s speech. The president looked like he was in his early 40s. He seemed to cough a lot, pretty much after every sentence. He also did weird eye movements as he spoke.
- “I am sure many of you are wondering where the world is heading right now. Well it still looks good, so don’t worry…” the president was saying.
- “Ah, I’m through with his bullshit.” Christina said and left to the kitchen.
- “Our shops are still in business, the buildings are standing, we’ve got everything under control…” the president kept on saying.
- “No, nothing is in control anymore.” Pete said.
- “What’s his name again?” Vince asked.
- “His name is Gar McKin.”
As president’s speech continued, there were a few ‘boos’ heard in the crowd. Nevertheless he continued speaking:
- “I know some of you might think that times are rough right now. But they really are not. Remember the first week since the accident? Do you remember the riots on the street, the smoke encasing the city, the lack of food and water? Well this is not happening right now. ‘Why?’ you might ask if you’re stupid enough. Because I won’t let that happen. I care for my country and I promise that we will crawl out of this crisis very soon.”
Here Christina came back into the room with a snack.
- “What is he saying now?” she asked.
- “Just same old promises as he says every single time.” Pete answered.
- “Which makes him the biggest liar in this city.” She responded.
Vince continued listening to the president, and the stuff that he was saying was making Vincent angry.
- “Currently no-one knows what caused the accident on the first place, but we’re all looking very hard for some clues. Nevertheless, that accident is in the past. It is not affecting us anymore, so we shouldn’t really be thinking about it. The world moved on…” President McKin was saying.
- “Yeah I can see what you mean now.” Vince said.
- “He’s a lying scum.” Christina said and switched the TV off, “there’s no point listening to his lies, because everyday it’s just the same.”
- “It was different one day.” Pete said.
- “No, it really wasn’t.” Christina disagreed.
- “Well, is someone going to do anything about the whole lying problem?” Vince asked.
- “People don’t care. They are fine like this. Except for us truthful ones of course.” Christina explained.
- “And is this the whole world that is affected?”
- “No, just several states of US. But the thing is, the rest of the world is now calling these states ‘The liars united’ and so no-one wants to fly here anymore.”
- “What about people flying out?”
- “They do not bother, because the few that did, ended up doing something so stupid and offensive that were put in jail or even executed.”
- “What about the truthful ones, like you? Why aren’t you getting out of here?”
- “Can’t afford it, unfortunately. Besides, it’s even worse. The more truthful people leave, the more outnumbered the remaining truthful people are by liars.”
- “That sucks. Well we must do something about it then.”
- “What CAN we do?”
- “I’ll try to think of something.” Vince reassured her.
- “Thanks. Maybe you truly were sent here by God.” She said.
- “Oh please, save me all the destiny talk.” Pete said negatively and got up to leave the room.
- “He doesn’t like it when I talk about God and destiny.” Christina explained to Vince.
Vince understood.