As a prom-going teenager myself, I absolutely love seeing guys and girls bringing their boyfriends and girlfriends, respectively, to prom looking like they don't have a care in the world. I am with your David one this one, and I absolutely love that you had him believe it, that labels really should be nonexistent. I'm a rather tolerable person, so I don't despise them, but I would love it if they didn't exist. I could go on a rant for days and make a numerous amount of essays to submit to my teacher if I knew she wouldn't be scandalized by them, but that's not the point of this whole thing.
I absolutely loved this. Shocker, right, since it's you and I love everything you write, but this really hit home for me because I can relate to it. I mean, I've never been attracted to the same gender, but I'm not against the idea either and I can see where your David was coming from, not feeling like he was a sexual person at all until that right person came along? I think David is like that completely, but I don't know, I could be ~bias.
I love the simplicity of the "coming out" part. That you didn't go any further than them walking in because it didn't matter to David or to Cook what happened during the prom, just that they were at prom and that they were together and in love and didn't feel compelled to hide it. It was absolutely perfect.
And your Lupe? Beautiful. In her reaction, in her words, I could practically embrace the motherly love that was there it was so spot-on.
And personally, I give the Disney references an A++ because I don't know, to me, they definitely fit in. Especially the Cinderella bit and Cook rolling with that because that seems like something he would do.
Anddddd, yeah, I'm going into one of my rambles again, so I am stopping at that, haha.
I would chant back the whole thing in quotes, but I specifically wanted to for this line, because it, well, it owned my heart.
He hears her whisper after them, "Go with God," very quietly, and his mom’s benediction surrounds them both, as they walk hand in hand out into the night.
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Date: 2009-10-16 12:52 am (UTC)As a prom-going teenager myself, I absolutely love seeing guys and girls bringing their boyfriends and girlfriends, respectively, to prom looking like they don't have a care in the world. I am with your David one this one, and I absolutely love that you had him believe it, that labels really should be nonexistent. I'm a rather tolerable person, so I don't despise them, but I would love it if they didn't exist. I could go on a rant for days and make a numerous amount of essays to submit to my teacher if I knew she wouldn't be scandalized by them, but that's not the point of this whole thing.
I absolutely loved this. Shocker, right, since it's you and I love everything you write, but this really hit home for me because I can relate to it. I mean, I've never been attracted to the same gender, but I'm not against the idea either and I can see where your David was coming from, not feeling like he was a sexual person at all until that right person came along? I think David is like that completely, but I don't know, I could be ~bias.
I love the simplicity of the "coming out" part. That you didn't go any further than them walking in because it didn't matter to David or to Cook what happened during the prom, just that they were at prom and that they were together and in love and didn't feel compelled to hide it. It was absolutely perfect.
And your Lupe? Beautiful. In her reaction, in her words, I could practically embrace the motherly love that was there it was so spot-on.
And personally, I give the Disney references an A++ because I don't know, to me, they definitely fit in. Especially the Cinderella bit and Cook rolling with that because that seems like something he would do.
Anddddd, yeah, I'm going into one of my rambles again, so I am stopping at that, haha.
I would chant back the whole thing in quotes, but I specifically wanted to for this line, because it, well, it owned my heart.
He hears her whisper after them, "Go with God," very quietly, and his mom’s benediction surrounds them both, as they walk hand in hand out into the night.
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