A lie that got out of hand.
It was such a stupid thing to lie about.
Really, who would have thought that one little fib would grow into such a huge
incident. You see it all started last summer. Halley decided that she wanted to
see and help the world and what better way to do that than missionary work, and
she could get some footage for her documentary if she was persuasive. The
problem was that most of the applications wanted you to speak a foreign language.
The better you were at the language the more preference your application got in
the agency. So, she checked “fluent” in Spanish, instead of “I speak it a
little”. How was she to know that they would make her a group leader in charge
of relations with the community leaders? All she wanted to do was help people
and travel and now the entire group was in trouble. Big trouble. Halley
confused the word for record “rodar” with the one for shoot, like a gun “disparar”.
Leading the community to think the group was coming to harm the locals. Now
they were all sitting in a circle surrounded by gunmen waiting for the
consulate to show up. All because she checked the box marked ‘fluent”.
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