@justsomeguy073: not a plan exactly.
more like a positioning.
being the person who seemed least likely.
who had the most convincing case for trustworthiness.
who had the most evidence in their favour.
who had been most thoroughly established as safe.
and i had contributed to that case.
had vouched.
had defended.
had used my own certainty as evidence when other people raised eyebrows.
i was the most convincing argument for someone's innocence.
because i believed it completely.
because i had been given every reason to.
found out and had to go back to every time i had defended.
every eyebrow i had dismissed.
every person i had reassured.
i had been the alibi.
the most believable one.
because i was the most genuinely convinced.
that's not stupidity.
that's just what a good performance does to an honest person. 🧍