Chapter 17
Darren was a liar.
He knew he was a liar, and he was mostly okay with it. He’d lied for years: ‘fine’, ‘okay’, and ‘nothing’s up, I’m just tired’ were his particular areas of expertise. He’d lied about music and he’d lied about school and he’d lied about what he wanted to do ever since Father had given him the violin. He’d been lying to Scott since he was about twelve, once or twice to Mother and Father in the intervening period, to Paul and Ethan since they’d met, and to Jayden since…well, since the end of the school, really.
That was the slightly jarring part, he supposed. He’d never made a habit of lying to Jayden, mostly because Jayden was smarter than that and would catch him out in about half an hour. And it had been…maybe not nice, but anchoring, to have someone who wo
