Keeping this secret should have been a good thing. Instead, it hurts/threatens to ruin them.
“You’ve been oddly secretive lately.”
To keep something from the other, they go to great lengths.
“I didn’t know how to tell you/how you’d react.”
“You need to trust me. Please.” “How can I when you kept this from me for years? Years, [name].”
Put a hand over the other’s mouth/Shoot the other a warning glare when they start to reveal the secret.
“I want to tell you. I really do. But I can’t.”
“Admit it. You secretly like it.”
“Tell me! Tell me, tell me, tell me. Pleeease.”
“Promise me that nothing will change [when you know]. Promise me.”
“Subtlety isn’t your strong suit, is it?”
“So you don’t trust me?” “No! … I mean, I do. I do trust you. It’s just that…”
“You’re making me nervous, being secretive like that.”
“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I wouldn’t tell you even if…”
“What are you doing?” “Nothing!”
They are good at sniffing out other people’s secrets. For some reason, however, they can’t figure the other out. What are they hiding?
“I’m tired of being your secret.”
“Were you hiding (that) from me?”
“Your secret is safe with me.”
“Wait. That’s it? That’s your big secret?”
“That’s no a secret. (Everyone knows.)”
“You had no right to tell them!”
“You’re my secret weapon.”
They already know the other’s secret but wait patiently for them to trust them with it.
“I can keep a secret. Sometimes.”
“That’s a secret. For now.”
“I’ve made no secret of the fact that…”
“I should have known you’d tell them.”
They try hard to keep the secret. They really do. (But now, they feel like they might burst if they don’t talk about it.)
“Thanks. I needed to get that off my chest.”
“Why did you feel the need to keep that to yourself?”
“You should/could have told me.”
“I’m glad we’re honest with each other.” “...Right. Same.”
“The secret to a great relationship/success/etc. is–” “No offense, but do you really think you are an expert in that field?”
The person they trust the least knows their darkest secret.
“I wouldn’t keep that from you.”
“Do you really think that - if it were true - they/I would have been able to keep it a secret for this long?”
“I want to unravel you and discover all your secrets.”
➔ Spill The Beans Prompts
