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

Right.

'Coincidence."

began explaining everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and

no way to

it. Can

She sighs.

"Well, right now you need to start from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs

I ask her and

You're a

Great.

useful just a while ago.

"Thanks, mom." I murmur.

her knocked up. Use a condom! When

in marriage before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and she laughs loudly, mumbling a

you too," I say before she hangs

all the rumors, I

#

than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren says as we discuss songs from Melanie Martinez.

amused, her black

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep

a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes and walk faster.

Whatever you do, don't turn around again." She nods looking confused and soon I am spun around.

"You didn't hear me?" Theodore asks and I act confused shaking my head.

look convinced but he

to you after school?"  He asks and I

promise I'm not going to force you into anything." He says and

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

can't

and I almost forgot she was behind me.

#

you? I call b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what happened that night. I was

with me?" I ask her and she

learn from them. . . which also goes for him too. He made a mistake and I'm not saying that you have to go plunging into his arms, but don't be too harsh on him if he is 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

too harsh on him okay? It may seem hard to forgive but. . . we all do some things that we're