Elijah and Luis: Pursuing Teenage Love

Know-Me: The App

(BY THE WAY: I came up with the name of this app off of the top of my head. I am hiding the name of the real app I used.)

Summer in 2019, I decided to get this app called "Know-Me." This is an app for teenagers where we can talk to other youth online and make friends (although many like starting relationships.) The way that we find other teenagers to talk to on this app is by doing live-streams, where anyone can join. 

Some of my friends had told me to get Know-Me because it seemed like fun and we were bored. I got it on my own without telling them and made an account where I posted pictures of me in my bio but you couldn't tell it was me(I just hid my face or most of it in the pictures). I changed my name to Jackson to help better hide my identity. I just didn't want anyone from my school finding and adding me. It was like my escape from being Elijah. I could pretend to be certain ways online because no one knew who I was.

After a few months, I've been making random friends. And school had started so I wasn't really on as much. Now one day, I went live with some of my Know-Me friends (or online friends) and we were just talking. Then this guy joined. He typed a simple "hi" in the chat so I clicked on his profile. He was this cute Hispanic guy, named Luis, that liked working out and he was bisexual. I usually wouldn't want to start relationships or anything with anyone from this app because it was on the internet but I couldn't help but be attracted to him. So I said, "Luis you are so cute. Do you wanna join the live?" I added him when he said yes and even his voice was cute. (Btw. The lives were very similar to Instagram lives so I could easily add him to it so we could all verbally talk.)

There were a few people on the live already talking so I kept trying to change the subject and get his attention. I thought he was trying to flirt with me. I don't remember exactly what he said but I just know that I was giving the same energy back. Then I decided to ask him, "Wait, do you have a boyfriend?" His response was, "Yes. Oh wait I wasn't flirting with you." He said it in a way that seemed like he genuinely didn't realize but that was stupid cause he flirted back. Anyways, the other people in the live and I got mad at him and one of them told me to kick him. Honestly, I didn't want to kick him because I still found him very attractive and I wanted to see his face a little bit longer. Then, one of the girls on the live kicked him and we all talked about how rude that was.

I was honestly so done with that live so we ended it. Then that was when the text came in...