Please Don't Touch

Theodore's POV

I sit in the room. . . .

Alone. . . . .

On a Saturday. . . . . .

Ever since Quen left and moved into a new apartment-

I have no idea how she did it so fast.

-I haven't been seeing her a lot around the school except for in classes but she would sit far away, and bolt as soon as the class ended.

Picking up my phone, I dial the only person I know that can help me.

"Woah, am I seeing the contact name correctly or. . ." I roll my eyes amused.

"Hello would be nicer, mom," I tell her and she chuckles.

"Hello sweetie, how are things?"

"Good. . . School wise."

"Oh, is something wrong?"

"Girl trouble." I sigh rubbing my forehead and she gasps.

"Girl trouble? That's a first." She mutters the last part my face goes flat at her response. "Who is this special girl?"

I take a deep breath before responding.

"Do you remember Quensilla?"

"Quensilla? Isn't she the one that you. . . . Oh... "

"Yup."

My mom was literally my best friend, I told her everything. Including what I did a few years ago.

"You guys ended up in the same college?" She asks surprised. "What a coincidence!"

Right.

'Coincidence."

dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was

no way to treat

it. Can

She sighs.

 you and her aren't ready for. She needs to learn to trust you. Most importantly you need to learn to trust each

on with things?" I ask her and I can already sense her smile.

a smart boy."

Great.

useful just a while ago.

mom." I

welcome sweetie. I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When the time is right of course."

I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and she laughs loudly, mumbling a 'sure'.

before

true, despite all the rumors, I am still a virgin.

#

bet you think that Soap is better than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren says as we discuss

her eyes amused, her black curls bounce as we walk down the hall.

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep walking.

a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my

nods looking

and I act confused shaking my

doesn't look convinced but he brushes it off.

talk to you after school?"  He asks

to force you into anything." He says and I eye him

me at the cafe just two blocks from here." I agree wearily and he

you then." He walks off and I can't help but wonder what I just got myself into.

was that?" Lauren asks and

#

b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled

.you're not totally and utterly disgusted with me?"

genuine when he apologizes." She tilts her head in his direction and I catch him looking at me, sitting at his usual table, with his usual gang. As soon as I meet his eye, he leans forward and stares at me even

. . we all do