Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

I guess it’s mostly women who do it. But sometimes you meet a girl who is just, like, your soulmate. Not in a romantic way, but in a friend way. Which can almost be more intense.

Men don’t protect us, not really. They only protect themselves, or each other. The only thing men ever protected me from was happiness.”

I was the same way when I was her age. Stars in my eyes. Thinking about my pretty white dress and the chubby little babies who would look up at me adoringly. In the end, life is just sweatpants and children who resent you and all your choices. But no one wants to hear that.