November Writing Challenge Day 26

Liar. 

I know a whole bunch of ’em, don’t you? One in particular springs to mind that would have cost me my job if Co-op if there hadn’t been so much evidence to the contrary of what he was saying. 

You’re supposed to live your life so that if anyone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe them. Well, this guy did…so it didn’t look so good for the truth tellers (already enemies) when the chips began to fall until the truth came out. “The truth will stand when the world is on fire.” People who had known me for ten years shunned me. For months I was truly an outcast among friends and FAMILY. But I kept my head high and my eyes straight ahead as things got worse. I spoke the truth and I knew it and God knew it and that was all that mattered to me. 

I remember going to lunch by myself for weeks because no one would have anything to do with me and I just cried and cried. People thought I cost him his job. No, that was years in the making. A file an inch thick. 

 I’m sure there are people who still don’t believe what was proven but that’s fine. I threatened to have t-shirts printed once it finally broke but I never did ☺ I guess I have to have standards every now and then. The high road is a mighty boring place. I guess the restitution is finally paid but I haven’t asked. Hopefully the tarnish won’t disappear from his name for a long, long time. Because once a liar and a thief, always a liar and a thief.