When we were children, we all had a group of girlfriends, the rules of the small group we set together, and the encouragement of each other to learn and progress together, which have become very precious memories when we grow up. Although I am not in the same city now, I will occasionally talk on the phone to see how everyone has been lately and laugh at each other.
But sometimes, the friendship between girlfriends is not always so beautiful.
"The Lying Game" is a suspenseful story set in a small group of girls in the upper school days, and the author Ruth Will very cleverly sets the way this small group is cohesive---- a lying game. How will the friendship of trust and lies develop?
On their way to the remote town of Sarde Boarding School, Aisha and Fatima meet Kate and Thea, and the four of them become good friends by mistake. They use the rules of the lying game to form teams, prank in this boarding school, to tease the students they don't like, to find a little fun in boring boarding life.
The game of lying has five rules:
1 Learn to lie: People who enter small groups learn to lie in front of people without missing a word, and let the deceived person be tricked to rate the degree of ridicule.
2 Keep your mouth shut: Never bring up or admit a lie you have told.
3 Beware of leaks: Don't let others know what you've told.
4 Be honest with yourself: You can't lie to your own people.
5 Cliffhanger: When the lie cannot control the situation, it is necessary to tell the truth in time, admit the mistake, and avoid the situation from deteriorating.
The code between the teams: "I need you", no matter who sends this signal, everyone has to put aside what they have at hand to accompany and help the person who is needed.
Kate's home is in the tide mill in the town of Saader, and every weekend, three other girls who are not accepted by the family come to Kate's house to play with Kate's family. He regards Kate's father, Ambrose, as his relative, and Kate's half-brother Luke as his brother and friend.
The friendship that comes with the game of lying makes them no longer lonely in their boarding school days, and their relationship has become more and more close. Later, Kate is in big trouble, and her father, Ambrose, left a suicide note to commit suicide, but did not want to be made public, so Kate sent a text message to her friends asking for help, "I need you". It was about a human life and the secret disposal of the body, but they did not flinch and chose to help Kate without hesitation. Because of their friendship and trust, this matter became a secret hidden by four people.
Even if they were later expelled from school, they were on one front, using unified lies to defend the facts of what happened. Despite how clumsy these lies are in the eyes of the teachers, they are still using their own rules to maintain friendship.
After being expelled from school, everyone was taken away from the town of Söde by their respective parents, and everyone chose to forget this time, grow up in their respective cities, and have their own lives. There is no mention of this secret, but everyone's heart is full of fear, afraid that the secret will be turned over one day.
Seventeen years later, the body was accidentally discovered and the secret was turned over. When Kate utters "I need you" again, the three girls immediately return to The Town of Sarde, back to the place where the nightmare began, overcoming their fears to work together to solve what had happened.
Elsa was the first to return to Sarde, and the fact that they had encountered a lot of strange things at the TideMill, coupled with the unfriendly words of the old friends they had been teased, made Elsa a little uneasy.
When lying to others becomes a habit, can you really be honest with your friends? Girls when they were younger didn't realize it. But as Aisha reasoned and recalled, there were signs that someone in the small group had taken advantage of the group's rules and lied to them, and those lies could have been one of the triggers for their expulsion.
When you discover that the friend who has always trusted, kept promises together, and maintained each other is actually the one who deceives you, she applies the rules of the lying game that the group has been playing to her own people. How would you feel? Emotional breakdown? Suspicious of each other? Or do you blame each other?
Everyone chose to believe, and still believe that the friendship of childhood was sincere. They continue to pursue the truth, hoping to find some clues from it to prove that their judgment is wrong. The more facts that can be uncovered, the more they point these lies to their good friend, Kate.
Everything started because of her, but she still maintained their former rules, kept her mouth shut and never leaked secrets, but also violated the principle of honesty between them. When all the truth is about to be revealed, Kate ends all the secrets by pulling off the cliff in the special way of [death].
But what about friendship? Will it still be there?
Several people hugged each other and looked back at the days they had walked together over the years. Although we don't see each other much, whenever someone says the code of "I need you" at a major event, everyone else will go and accompany that person until the suffering has passed.
During the investigation, Aisha was questioned and misunderstood by her partner, but she still kept her agreement and was silent about the past; Fatima missed the day of fasting, but she still chose her friends to stay with her; Thea lost her job, but she did not regret it, and went to the appointment in time to help her friend in need.
Everyone regrets Kate's insistence more than blame. Her original intention was because of love, but such love was too selfish and contained her lies, which all her friends could not bear. Perhaps this "cliff stop" approach is too intense, and the friends who remain still want to defend her and solve the secrets of the past seventeen years in the unique way of their group.
But that can't be said to have no effect on the other three, the filter of trust and sincerity shattered, leaving behind lies and betrayals. Honesty and trust are exchanged for seventeen years of fear of being exposed as a secret, a confession of the wrong things that have been done, and a desire to forget and paralyze their lives.
Let everyone have doubts about this friendship, to rethink whether it is a mistake to pay trust, is it worth cherishing?
Maybe after the separation of things, a few people will not want to meet again. For Elsa, her partner's attention and apologies have not been able to make her more trusting and emotional, and her father, who lives alone in another city, can make her feel the family affection that never betrays her.
After reading such a story, the ending made me sigh.
Sincerity and lies are two sides of the contradiction, but they exist between their friendships at the same time, casting an imperceptible shadow on this friendship itself. Kate exchanges the love and trust of her friends for her own love, which is a selfish use for her friends, and may have no choice for her, she only has girlfriends who can help her with this.
The result, of course, is tragic. Her friends were expelled and scattered around the world, and she also lost the pillar of love in her heart, and could only use the secret to support herself for the rest of her life, and finally paid the price of her life.
"I can't take off my mask after a long time."
When we are young, we may not understand that a lie needs a series of lies to fill, and this lie will snowball like a snowball. The day the lie is finally punctured, the cost of harm and regurgitation is not something that everyone can bear.
Human emotions are complex and simple, fragile and strong. Friendship may not stand up to hurt and deception, but love and trust can get a group of friends through life together. I hope that each of us can get along with each other with sincerity in friendship, and use sincerity to care for hard-won trust and emotion.
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