[AGoDR] Lie To Me

Rory and Jude knew each other almost too well to be playing one lie, two truths with each other. That didn't stop Rory from issuing the challenge at lunch time. The prize was bragging rights (and fun).

She sat with Jude outside the main cafeteria, drumming her fingers in excitement. "You want to go first, soon-to-be-loser?"

Today, Rory had Joyous Waltz. Joy was a child, so she fit better at an academy setting, and sure, Rory could have brought along Quiet, but she brought him almost everywhere.

"Two guesses wrong seems good to me." Then Rory squinted at Jude. She knew Jude was Italian, and his father was a mobster. "Truth," she said to the first.

Technically the last was false. If they were counting his mother, which maybe he wasn't. Rory didn't know.

"I'm going to say the last one is the lie." It wasn't hard to believe Jude could run fast, she'd seen him fight.

"Okay! Uh. My favorite class in school was art. I was part of the debate team in junior high. And... I broke my wrist as a child when I tried to skateboard."

Rory laughed when he caught her lie. "Yeah. Art was far from my favorite class."

Rory listened closely to his questions. Fuck, those were harder than the last. Okay, they were getting into the heart of it. She considered him. Jude wasn't a fan of horror, but that was probably more from the gore. Maybe it bored him, even. S

he didn't know enough about guns to know which he was referencing, but he was passionate about guns...

Kids. Shit. Yikes. He couldn't have thought about that yet, could he? No to mention Jude wasn't exactly straight. Then again, his dad was Roman Catholic...

"I feel like the last one is a lie?"

After getting his reply, she went on with her own statements.

"I snagged Tabs and Tib off the street and after a long fight, mom gave in and let me keep 'em." She grinned. "I'm terrible at all card games. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a famous dancer."

"Shit!" But Rory giggled (legitimately giggled) and shook her head. "It was Tib and Tabs. I bought them at a store like a normal person. Mom would have never given in to letting me keep rats off the streets. Literally never."

And they were right back to it. Shit. She had to get this one right or she was going to lose. And he made it REAL hard. She groaned. Maybe if he got hers wrong too they could do a fatality round. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Rory bit her lip. Not gelato, right? Gelato was amazing. English or Italian... well he used English more. He'd wanted to change his name to something Italian at one point, so he couldn't have disliked it that much... right?

"I feel like the texting one is bullshit. If we both get these one's wrong, we have to do another round!"

She cleared her throat. "My favorite genre of movie is romantic comedy. I went by 'Lorelai' at school. Before I became a hero I had no strong opinions about any heroes or villains."

Rory wondered if she wanted to just give him this... She blushed and stared away from him, twiddling her thumbs. "It was the Lorelai one. I've always gone by Rory..."

Before he had a chance to respond, Rory rose her voice just a tad above average, high and defensive sounding. "No one ever thought I liked girly things! So, uh, I just kind of played up to that. Uugh. I used to have this girly magazine in common with Janelle too. Shit. Don't tell anyone or else!"