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.

guys ended up in the same college?" She asks surprised. "What

Right.

'Coincidence."

." I began explaining everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course,

Beckett. That is no way to treat

I get it. Can you

sighs.

now you need to start from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't

time to move on with things?" I ask her

"You'll know. You're a

Great.

was so useful just a while

"Thanks, mom." I murmur.

"You're always welcome sweetie. I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When

in marriage before sex." I yell feeling

too," I say before she hangs up and begins planning.

despite all the rumors, I am still a

#

Party." My new friend Lauren

her black

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep walking.

like literally running towards

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

hear me?" Theodore asks and I act

He doesn't look convinced but

talk to you after school?"  He asks and I immediately open my

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

two blocks

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

that?" Lauren asks and

#

shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what

and utterly disgusted with me?" I

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

him okay? It may seem hard to forgive but. . . we all do some things that we're not supposed to and end up regretting it