"Can you please get my meds from the counter?" requested Pam as she settled with her cup of tea.
"When you have no physical aches, why are you still consuming these pills?" asked a concerned Dave.
"It's the mental ache, and these pills keep me high," she said with a forced smile.
Dave frowned and was about to give his opinion.
Just then, the phone rang.
"Hi, Lisa!" said Pam while keeping eye contact with her beau.
"Life is super! I'm rocking it, my friend," said Pam with shrugged shoulders and a downward glance while fidgeting with the blanket.
In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes a lie. What is the lie? It can be subtle or blatant. Who tells the lie and why? Is it an unreliable narrator? Go where the prompt leads!
