Loveless

Content Warning: Loveless depicts acephobia, sexuality-related identity crises, and the challenges of coming out. It also mentions emotional abuse in the Part 4, Chapter 14 Summary.

Eighteen-year-old Georgia watches couples make out at a prom afterparty, both jealous and repulsed. She finds her friend Pip in the kitchen, and they talk about how she wants to kiss somebody. Pip suggests Georgia confess to her longtime crush Tommy, their school’s most handsome, popular boy. Pip wants someone to sing a love song to her, and laments being alone. She dismisses Georgia’s idea to kiss a stranger because it would be out of character. Georgia wishes she could kiss Tommy because it would be the fulfillment of a teenage dream before she leaves for university.

Georgia has always loved the idea of love. Her parents have been in love for decades, so she’s been raised to value romantic love. Everyone she knows has kissed someone, even if it was in a silly situation. However, Georgia has never done so or even had a crush on a celebrity. She believes what other people say, that her time for love will come.