Big lies we told friends in high school [Writer's contest 2]

' See that aeroplane going! My dad is the pilot' I remember that to be one of my fables I gave friends in High School. As you all know, a school is always one of the best gatherings of humans with different characters and attitudes. You get to meet some extra ordinary jovial people and some weirdoes you would wonder if they were humans. And for the fact that there are a lot of people claiming they are rich in their family, you wouldn't want to be caught off guard. You also want to belong and claim your family owns Computer Village, even. I had an imaginary uncle then in London that brought stuffs for me, I always told my friends. My uncle travelled every week to London. And when he came back, he made sure he came with a different car and a lot of goodies. I once told my friends my uncle brought a Chewing Gum that never lost its taste. You would chew and chew and it would always get sweetened the more it stayed in your mouth. I was telling Samuel the other day on how I chewed the gum for 3 days and later spat it out. He asked why I did that, since it doesn't lose its taste. I knew I had been caught off guard. But I still tried to cover up telling him I wanted to try the Macaroni flavour. I claimed my younger ones were given birth to in the States, Tulsa, Oklahoma to be precise. I wasn't there at their birth, but I once went with my dad to celebrate my younger brother’s birthday, when he was 3. We decided not to go by Flight. We took a speed boat instead and we spent 3 days on the Sea. I told them there were so many bus tops on the sea and what they basically sold were fishes. That there was a fish that looked like a Lion, people of that locality called it Fishion. I told them we saw Mermaids when we got to the American Sea. And they were waving at us. That mermaids are friendly beings and not evil. Mind you, I wasn’t the only involved in this. A guy came to join us then in Class 2. Abiola would tell us he spent his summers in Chicago. Michael Jordan was his next door neighbour. They practiced basketball together every morning and immediately after practice, they always had enough to eat. We all believed anyway since he looked so much like someone from the United States. I remember Toke, a girl like that. They had almost everything you mentioned that you had in your family, even the latest. There was a time a certain girl's parents bought a Mercedes Benz 200. Toke said her dad had 3 Mercedes Benz 2000 and it didn't run on petrol, but Olive Oil and it could recognize all of them in the family. Anytime they entered into the car, the car would mention their name and welcome them. Ramon was someone we all believed his fables should have been noticed by the Military as this guy could make you believe anything. His lies were not on 4G Networks , they ran on Optical Fibres. Ramon once told us his Dad Rode on Bicycle to Saudi Arabia and when we asked him how he crossed the sea, he said the bicycle was a special one and it could fly. I also remember him telling us they had a tree in their compound that bore different fruits. That his dad was presented with that by a in the desert, while he was travelling. Dimeji made us to understand  that his dad fought in the World War I. He fought alongside the Germans and was decorated with so much Awards for his gallantry. That after World War I, he came back to fight Africa War I and was later invited to assist China in the Asia War 3. He surely capitalised on the fact that we might not be able to unravel the truth since the event happened in way past. High school was fun anyway. Though we all later realized we were lying to one another in one way or the other, we got to know where every other person lived and we never saw anything we claimed to have. The girl that claimed they had Mercedes Benz 2000, actually happened to be the daughter of a Commercial Bus Driver. Dimeji’s dad was just a Neighborhood Watch Official of the LAGOS State Government. Yes Ramon's dad was an Alahaji, but he never rode to Mecca on a bicycle, and they only happened to have lots of fruits in their compound that his mum simply sold them at the market.