Elliot and Julia have a complicated relationship. Since they met in the seventh grade, the only heart-to-heart conversations they've had have been strictly over text. But they don't mind this lack of intimacy. If anything, they enjoy it.
Don't thi...
Partway through our senior year, I started dating Mateo, one of my best friends. He was my first boyfriend and even though it was scary at first, it was really great. We started going out as a sort of fluke and somehow it lasted.
When I started dating Mateo, I was just so happy. It was so great, I had never had a boyfriend before and suddenly BAM, I had one and he was a friend, a great guy. It was better than I had imagined. The only thing I didn't like about Mateo, the only thing I had ever not liked, was how religious he was.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't the religion part. Just because I wasn't religious it didn't mean no one else could. Actually, I was a little jealous of their faith, I didn't understand it. The one thing that worried me a little was that there wouldn't be sex, like, ever. But I didn't think about it, we were only eighteen after all. It was a non-issue. I wasn't planning on having sex anytime soon, not right after we started dating.
Elliot, however, had a differing opinion.
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"So you're dating that kid?"
"That kid? Yes, I am dating Mateo."
"That's fucking weird."
"Gee thanks. Try not to be too excited about this whole thing."
"Hey, you can date whoever you want. I just don't get why you would want to go out with someone so..."
"So what?"
"Religious."
"You say it like it's a bad thing. It's really not."
"But it's not you."
"Oh so just because he's religious and I'm not means that I can't date him? That's ridiculous."
"I just feel like you're going to end up disappointed."
"And I just feel like that you saying that could be sweet except for the fact that your logic makes absolutely no sense."
