"Sugar, Sugar" by: Victoria Lee -- Handler's Choice #2

“Ready with the confetti---Veronica and Betty are going steady!” —Veronica Lodge in “Verse Than Ever,” 1977.

Sugar. You’re saccharine, like apple pie filling. Sweeter than the milkshake I’m watching you drink. You lick the whipped cream off your cherry, and I pretend to look at Archie. Ah honey, honey. Your laugh is honey when he wipes a bit of chocolate from the side of your mouth, smearing the lipstick I picked out for you. You’re my candy girl. Bubblegum-pink. I imagine what it will look like on Archie’s jaw later, and suddenly I’m burning. The boy who brought me here says something as I leave, but I didn’t come here for him. I came because you’re sweet. Because you make my molars ache, Betty. And you got me wanting you.