Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

Men are such babies. They’re too scared to actually break up with you, so they just get mean or fade away until you get mad and dump them.

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. You could tell that Savvy and Lucy were in one of those intense friend-soulmate relationships.

I mean … I don’t know. Would people say she had a temper if she was a man? They’d say she stood up for herself when it was needed. So that’s what I’m going with. Lucy wasn’t afraid to stand up for herself.

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