"You need to know, I don't have friends because...well because I can't. I find it's hard to trust people, so I lie to them. So they think I'm something I'm not, therefore they can't hurt me- the real me. And they'll never know the real me.
Only those close to me know how I truly am. I lied to you so much, and I hate it. I do, however, I have to keep myself safe as well. I can't just go telling you everything about me when I barely know you. Who knows what you could do with that information," he explained slowly.
That meant, naturally, he wasn't a jerk or a liar. He was something else. How could he live like that? Having to be someone fake all the time, that was one heck of a job on top of being a prince. I still didn't understand though, he told me to trust him, the tone in his voice, th
