“This-is-SPARTA!”
Schoolhouse
Rock* #quote
Today CJ will
be coming over, and Jessica tommorrow, and since CJ is staying the
weekend on Sunday we'll all be together to hatch an evil scheme,
though we probably won't. I say probably won't to maintain plausible
deniability.
April Trues
Parallel
universes have various quirks here and there. One thirty-six and a
half degrees divided by zero on the quantum reality scale from ours
has a particular quirk in April. Ten days after April Fools they have
April Trues. This tradition often terrifies people, however anyone
whoever speaks against it was looked at as an extremely dishonest
person. In this reality April Trues came long before April Fools and
went under many names over many cultures and created April Fools as a
sort of contrasting day before. And the reason April Fools contrasted
April Trues was that on April Trues everyone must tell the truth.
This was also why it terrified everyone.
A near-ancient
tradition that permeated through various cultures April Trues became
so ingrained that people followed it religiously. People hid, and the
biggest way to get out of it was to refuse to speak. The most high
profile trials were held on April Trues and so were many treaty
signings. On our Earth treaties were signed with various dates. In
this reality most were dated April 11th, the day of April
Trues.
Congressman
Hughes was one of the many politicians who liked to take advantage of
April Trues. By using carefully worded speeches he could manage to
give statements without breaking the rule of not lying. Even a
politician found difficulty lying on April Trues, it'd be like
breaking a most Sacred Commandment. Some did, but the worst part was
that when someone lied on April Trues, you could always see it in
their face. Very few ever mastered the “April Bluff”, including
professional liars.
He gave his
speech smiling that'd he'd used the day to look even more honest with
his carefully crafted words. Never technically lying he managed to
paint his opposition in the worst light. He managed to enter his car
quickly enough to avoid anyone asking any compromising questions. Hughes smiled as started driving his car home. He didn't even trust
to have a driver in the vehicle.
His wife sat
next to him in the passenger seat turned to him and asked, “Are you
having an affair?” He almost froze, but at least driving instincts
prevented them from crashing. People didn't ask those kinds of
questions on April Trues. After all, if you asked your husband or
wife that it showed a complete lack of trust that you thought you
even needed April Trues to get the answer out of them.
“Yes,”
Hughes replied. However his wife was right. And the only reason the
politician brought her along in the car during the dangerous day of
April Trues was that he thought he had her fooled. When the
politician and his wife filed for divorce in March the media
naturally put two and two together and magazines speculated on what
kind of truth was revealed on April Trues.
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