If Rhyming Jenny can’t tell a lie, then Sophie is the exact opposite. Every word that comes out of her mouth is an invention, and while sometimes they’re true, they’re always designed to do as much damage as possible.

“Are they back together?  I saw them in a corner last night,” she’d say, knowing just how he’d react. I don’t know if she enjoyed watching things fall apart, or if she even thought about it, but she left waves of hurt behind her.

I wanted to fuck the truth out of her.  I hated myself for it, but I couldn’t walk into the same room as her without getting tongue tied and erect at the same time.  Her lips were luscious and soft and I was more interested in what might go between them than what might come out.  She wore tight sweaters and no makeup and I wanted her in the worst way.

She got drunk enough to come home with me one night and I don’t know what I expected. We kept drinking as we sat on the foot of the bed and I tried to woo her with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.  She sang along until I kissed her and we held each other close.  She told me to not to be gentle and I didn’t question her.  She told me to take her hard and quick and to let her struggle until I was exhausted.

We ended up on the floor with our clothes flung up onto the bed and the harder we fucked the more she let go.  At first it was fake moans turning real and later it was nails changing to soft caresses and I wasn’t sure what to do.  When she stopped biting me and I kissed her softly she tasted of salt tears and closed eyes.  I held her gently and she kissed my neck as she cried quietly into my shoulder. 

I didn’t let her go until she opened her eyes again and it was later than it should have been.  I brushed her cheek with my fingers as I ran them through her hair. She smiled for just a second before the Sophie I knew came back into the room. 

Later, as she smoked out the window, it was like it had never happened. She looked scornfully at me and I tried to be far cooler than I am. 

“Someone told me you like when girls cry,” she said firmly and I didn’t contradict her for a moment. 

—Guy New York