I got up. Piles of cloth were wrapped around me. Suddenly, light filled the room. "Sweetie? Are you up?" A voice said. A woman stood in front of a door. I tried to speak. I don't know you! Get away from me! I wanted to yell. But instead I said something completely different. "Yes mom! I'm going to get changed!" I said laughing. Huh? What did I just say? I don't know this lady! But I couldn't force myself to say anything mean or negative. I pulled out the first outfit I saw. Surprisingly it looked really good on me. It matched my figure and it made me look skinnier but not too skinny. I started to put on makeup. Just some mascara and lip gloss. I looked great! Perfect even!

I walked upstairs school bag in hand. My wavy black hair flew in front of my face because of the wind. I wasn't cold at all though. "Hey! Floral!" I heard a girl's voice yell. I whirled around. A pretty girl with black hair the same color as mine except it had caramel highlights ran up to me followed by a girl with chocolate colored hair. "Hey! What's up?" I asked smiling. I didn't recognize either of them, but my mind sent out two names to my head. Lucy and Joanna. "Lucy! Joanna! Good to see you!" I said smiling. "Can you believe it's the first day of school already? Like totes stupid!" The girl who I thought Joanna said. "Joanna is totally obsessed with talking in text language." Lucy said laughing. We hooked arms. "Follow the stupid school brick road?" Lucy asked. "To the Wizard of Math we go!" I yelled. We skipped down the hall as people called our names. Guess we're popular. To be honest I didn't even know what I was doing! It was as if something was programmed into me and was making me do everything! We started to walk into a math class.

ANOTHER FLASHBACK

"Bye Pai!" I said giving him a kiss on the cheek. "You know, even though everyone says you're the biggest liar, I know you love me!" He said returning the kiss. "Because-because-I-I-do." I said smiling. He looked shocked. "You defied your program?" He asked astonished. "For the boy I love: I'll do anything I can!" I said. "I know your stereotype is no one can lie all the time, and you do lie all the time, but the fact that you managed to fix the chip just to say that.... means so much to me." He said giving me a hug. I always lied. I couldn't help it! Unfortunately I was given the stereotype that involved lying. It was a curse. But I couldn't do anything about it. There was no possible way to take out the chip. And as we learned at the school here on our remote island, the only thing that could fix the chip was serious emotional feelings. I had fixed the chip because of Prince Pai! He had promised that we would get married one day. I would be Princess Floral! I was so happy! I was walking toward my room on the other side of campus. I had just passed a conference room and I was about to turn the corner. "Poison Pai?" I heard a voice say. I froze. I pressed my ear to the door. "It isn't just enough to kill him! We need to destroy the whole system! They need to see how corrupted the whole system is! Poison him so he will become crazy! He needs to have visions of pain to make him crazy!' Another voice said. Pai! No! I yelled in my head. I had just fallen in love and now my lover was going to die because of some stupid scheme? Correction: He wasn't just going to die. He would be poisoned and bedridden. He would be completely crazy. Seeing him like that might be even worse then seeing him at his funeral. At least then I would know he would rest in peace. I had to protect him.

I had to kill him.

*TIME WARP*

I gripped the kinfe in my hands. Pai was asleep. "Remember, I will always love you. This isn't a lie. I-I-I love you. I'm sorry." This time my stuttering wasn't because of my chip. It was because of my tears. Before I could say anything else I brought the knife to his chest and struck. He wasn't breathing. I dropped the knife. Horrified at what I'd done. My hands were covered with blood. "Pai! Pai! I'm so sorry!" I sobbed. The door opened. I gasped. "You! YOU KILLED THE PRINCE!" Screamed a man. "No! No! I didn't mean to! Someone else-" I tried to say. "Don't lie! We all know what your stereotype is! A liar? How about a prisoner?" He yelled yanking me by my shirt. "Killer!" He screamed out the door. People turned their heads. A group of men came running toward our room. They grabbed me and handcuffed me. "No! NO! PLEASE! LISTEN!" I yelled kicking and screaming. People were staring and pointing. Probably calling me a killer, a murderer, an assasin. "Pai! Pai! Please! LET ME GO! PAI!" I yelled. They dragged me away. "I love you Pai. Forever." I whispered.

*ANOTHER TIME WARP*

"Mom! Help me! Your on the high council! You can help me!" I said pleading with her. She looked at me. Ashamed. "Floral, you know that even though I'm on the high council I can't set you free! You murdered the prince of our island for pete sakes! There's no heir to the throne!" She said turning away. "I've told you the truth! I've told them all the truth!" I said tears flowing out of my eyes. "Sweetie! Your stereotype is lying! I loved you even though it was! But you've taken this too far! Blaming someone else for Prince Pai's death! YOUR LYING IS A CURSE AND A SHAME TO THIS FAMILY!" She yelled shoving me. I blinked. She had never said anything like that. I grabbed her wrist suddenly angry. She looked fearful. She should be. "I was beat up for 7 years. You let me leave when I was only 5 because you were ashamed. I was forced to lie. You did nothing about it!" I yelled. She looked guilty. I was released off the island when I was just 5. Most get deposited when they're 6 or 7. I thought nothing of it at the time. I was given a fake family like all stereos but I wasn't happy. At my school I was beat up for being a liar. Yelled at for being a liar. Punished for being a liar! And I couldn't even do anything about it! My dad died in the war. My mom moved here to start new. She should've known loss! But she sent me off and never visited me! But I didn't send a release form! I could have! I could've punished her and put her in jail for what she had done to me! I was through with the garbage she had given me. I used my momentum to flip her onto her back. I heard a siren go off. I didn't care. I kicked her and called her names. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU'RE THE SHAME!" I yelled as officers pulled me off her. "YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH A LIAR AS I AM!" I screamed. She looked at me. She smirked. "I know Floral." She said as they lead me off to my cell. All I heard after that was her say five words.

"And I'm proud of it."