Day 15 of the February daily challenge

Here is another short story!

"I got a pocket ace!" ha. Said a guy overjoyed with almost certainty that he was going to win. 

"Guess you were, wrong loser, I got a royal flush! Guess you shouldn't be praising yourself to early, son!"

"Look who's talking, I got all aces!" Guess ya'll shouldn't have put all in." I was looking around just making sure no one had spotted me cheating. It seems suspicious when you get all aces, although I have an obsession of lying, I am the king of lying. I know how to fool someone of think that I am telling the truth to lie about the truth but really telling a lie for the truth, making it seem like the truth is a lie, by fooling the guy who thinks they read faces. You see, I am a people person, I study people's behavior and learn about deep secrets that they hide or personal things that are never told even to friends. A people person knows others and how they act and behave. They would know from the behavior whether they are good at basketball or not. Even when it seems irrelevant.

"Someday, you won't be so lucky!" said the guy with the pocket ace. He pushed the money to me and said, "You ain't worth my time cheater!"

"I'm not a cheater!" I said. No one really cared. I mean they only bring ten gran to bet and most guys here at the casino own three hundred gran. I went home with twenty five gran because there were five of us playing. 

I opened the door to my apartment with excitement and said, "I'm home honey!" I put my win on the counter top in the kitchen and said, "Remember the lottery that you let me sign up for? well I won the 25 gran!" 

"That's great sweety!" She said "I told you we'd win!" She seemed to have believed me, of course I did sign up for a lottery that was 25 gran but I did not win the lottery. 

"Let's have a movie night, my dear!" I said, changing the subject. I could tell she needed some relaxation from all the stress of working all day. She is a business woman and she is a perfectionist. 

"I would love to Drake! You seem to be in a good mood!" She said smiling, her smile widened as she saw me take out ice cream from the freezer. I told her we should do it the right way. 

We sat on the couch as we watched the movie and ate the ice cream. She leaned her self on me and had one leg on the couch and the other crossing over her leg playing footsie with me. After we got more into the movie, I laid my head on her lap. I started fading away. 

During this time I had some kind of dream, but I forgot what the dream looked like, all I remember is the words I thought about. "I thought about my lies I made. I even lied go my boss today. I thought about what would happen if they would find out any of my lies. Though I was good at making a lie to cover another lie and so on, my wife is smart too and she reads faces. There is something about her that makes her lose that ability when she talks to me, or when I talk to her.  What would happen if she would find out about me playing poker, out of all things. My worst fear is if she wants to leave me. I wouldn't bare to leave her.

The next morning I woke up in my bed and I realized she was cuddling me, she had put her arms around my waist like I was a teddy bear. I was in a comfortable position so I went back to sleep. 

I woke up and realized my wife was out of bed. I got out of bed and went to the living room. She was sitting on the couch with her arms crossed and a note on a paper.

"What is it honey?" I asked her.

"Did you lie about winning the lottery?" She asked with sadness in her eyes, she already new that I lied. There is something about these situations that make me lie anyways.

"No, I didn't!" The thing is that I said it in the correct tone and everything, she knows how to spot lies, but even though I had no evidence from my body language, my face and my tone, she still knew I lied. She started crying.

"I ask you a question I know the answer to, yet you still lie to me, why is that? The winner of the lottery was even announced this morning on TV. Unless you can explain to me what is going on, I am leaving you!" She said as she stiffened up and got serious.

At this moment I broke. What I mean by broke is that my whole personality and self wasn't normal, it wasn't the usual me. She noticed that but still was looking for an answer. 

"I'm sorry Kim that I lied to you, yes I didn't win the lottery. I'm sorry, so, so, sorry, but I went to play poker at a casino last night. I won 25 gran. I kept everything about my self a secret from you. That I read people, that I am the king of lies, that I knew how to keep you from reading my face until now. The thing is that I am obsessed with lies. Ever since I experienced my uncle's death of a murderer, I studied about reading people's faces and expressions, I started lying my self even but with the right form, I never lied anymore since then the way a typical liar would. I fooled my boss, I fooled you. I basically controlled you. But the truth is, I love you Kim. My deepest fear is you leaving me. I would give up my obsession just for you if I had to. Do you understand? and I am so, sorry for hearting you."

"Thank you for telling me the truth." I've decided not to leave you, but you will have to make up for it by spending evenings with me. We could start our own investigation agency and we could still use your talent for use. Please don't lie to me anymore!" She said, as her frown became a smile.

From that moment on, my fears were gone and I had put my love in her not in pathological lies.