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.

the same college?" She asks

Right.

'Coincidence."

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

no way to

get it. Can you

sighs.

something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs

time to move on with things?" I ask her and I can already

You're a smart

Great.

just a while ago.

I murmur.

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

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

before she hangs up and begins planning.

all the rumors, I am still a virgin.

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Soap is better than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren

is!" I exclaim and she rolls her eyes amused, her black curls

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep walking.

"Um, Silla. There's a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes and walk

around again." She nods looking confused and soon I am spun around.

Theodore asks and I

doesn't look convinced but he brushes it off.

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

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

just two blocks

off and I can't help but wonder what I just got myself

"What and who was that?" Lauren asks and I almost forgot she

#

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

and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and she raises an

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 gang. As soon as I meet his eye, he leans forward and stares at me even more. I avert my eyes back to my

may seem hard to forgive but. . . we all do some things that we're not supposed to and end