[Ben wouldn't recognize it as such, anyway. He's not familiar with high school, with teenagers, with cliques. Of course on the other hand, he also doesn't understand - not really, not in more than theory - why the one example she picks is the most important. No one, to his knowledge, has ever bothered to lie to him about that. He's not important enough for anyone to feel the need to convince him either way of their friendship for him.

He's heard the last thing she says before, though. That he doesn't lie. It's accurate and he sees no reason to deny it.]

I don't see the point in it. Very rarely have I been in a position to need to do so, or that the results of doing so would not be much, much worse than the consequences in the inevitable matter of when I would be caught doing so.

I am glad it is a positive point for you, however.