On Teenage Love

By JJ on 13 Jan 2012

WICKED COOL RILEY: When I was a teenager declaring my love there was a lot of mumbling and short, declarative sentences.
WICKED COOL RILEY: And idiotic grinning.
JJ: I never declared love to anyone as a teenager.
JJ: I didn’t believe teenagers had the capacity to declare love.
JJ: Even when I was 16.
WICKED COOL RILEY: I did, to one boyfriend, but only like, two months after he’d first said it to me.
WICKED COOL RILEY: And I can recognize now that what I felt wasn’t love, and I think I knew it then, too. But I couldn’t think of another word that encompassed what I felt.
WICKED COOL RILEY: Which was something along the lines of delusional obsession.
JJ: HAHAHAHA. “I am delusionally obsessed with you.”
WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED about him a great deal, and that part was genuine. But I care in this mix of maternal and like, dog walker.
WICKED COOL RILEY: And was mostly just very swept up in the drama of it all.
JJ: OMG. BEST DESCRIPTION EVER.
WICKED COOL RILEY: IT’S TRUE THOUGH.
WICKED COOL RILEY: I CARED ABOUT JOE CLARK LIKE I WAS HIS DOG WALKER.
WICKED COOL RILEY: Which I pretty much was.
JJ: I less than three you SO MUCH, Kelly Riley.
JJ: SO MUCH.
WICKED COOL RILEY: Is this going on your blog?
JJ: YOU BET IT IS.