Lies

[ZeldaQueen]

Remember that girl I told you about? The one who I suspected was moving in on my bf? Yeah, she totally fit that. Over the course of the four or so years I've known her, she's told me or someone in my family:

1.) When she lived in Russia, she was forced to take ballet despite not wanting to (first thing she said, most believable)

2.) She was cast as Gavroche in the Russian production of Les Miserables, only because they apparently forgot to cast the part and she happened to be there visiting a distant relative who was the orchestra conductor. While cast, she was apparently forced to listen to records of dying people to get a better dying scene.

3.) She woke up at four in the morning to make breakfast for herself, mother, and grandmother, walked the dogs, fixed her grandmother's medication, helped her mother translate her medical documents (her mother is a doctor), went to school, and did all of her homework, which leads us to her claim of

4.) That she took every possible available AP and Honors course and found them all incredibly easy. She also seemed totally convinced that it was easy - even common - for people to get 100% on the SATs and that everyone at her lunch table thought so. When I told her I didn't get 100%, she asked if I missed one question.

5.) She used to be a famous model and sent the money back home to her village in Russia. I say "famous" because she told some story about how a friend told her that she had a good face that should be "used" while said friend was flipping through a magazine she modeled for (without the friend recognizing her).

6.) She used to be a famous child star in Russia, so famous that - when smuggling family jewelry out of the country on the trip to America - she got by when the guards recognized her from their child's favorite show.

7.) She was accepted to both Yale and Harvard, but chose to attend Pitt. She was granted a Pitt scholarship which she said paid for all of the classes, got her free room and board, and she then considered asking for the school to provide her with a wardrobe.

8.) She continually insisted that it was out of character for students in books to make fun of their teachers and refused to believe that people had sex for any reason other than reproduction.

9.) She knew an incredibly gorgeous guy in college who she claimed was infatuated with her. I think the guy was real, but I don't know much more about it than that.

10.) After she learned that I loved acting and was trying to get my writing published, she insisted that she had lots of connections to talent scouts and publishing agents who she could hook me up with.

11.) Her dad was the boss of a company so whenever she visited, everyone offered her candy and was nice to her.

I think that's most of it. It got to the point where, every time she opened her mouth, I got the urge to smack my head on a wall. Technically no one could prove the stuff she said wasn't real (although one would think a Google search would bring up some of those famous modeling and acting things) but it was crazy.