The Lies They Told

<p>No one noticed me until the day I went missing. From that point on they couldn't stop seeing me. My face was plastered everywhere - in the news on social media and on fliers tacked up around the small Minnesota town of Cedar Point.</p><p><br></p><p>For my entire adult life I had been invisible. I wasn't an oops a child my parents would eventually grow to love. I was a dammit a baby no one would ever love. Lily and Laurel my identical twin sisters were my parents' dream. I was their mistake. Plain Jane is what they called me.</p><p><br></p><p>I had always lived in the shadow of others - until a terrifying call sent me on the run. Someone wanted me dead? Was it my prominent husband who was privately abusive? My estranged parents? the town drifter with whom I was closer to than my own family? Or the Chief of Police someone I had loved since I was twelve? Were some working together? I could trust no one.</p><p><br></p><p>All these years I thought no one saw me. But as the lies blossomed I realized everyone had from the very beginning. Like a marionette I had been forced to dance. I was a puppet with many masters each waiting for the perfect moment to use me and then cast me aside.</p><p><br></p><p>While some lies are small the lies they told had the potential to destroy me.</p>