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.

in the same college?" She asks surprised. "What a

Right.

'Coincidence."

out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time

"Theodore Anthony Beckett. That is no way to treat a

I get it. Can you please help me

sighs.

start from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs to learn to trust you. Most importantly you need to learn to

the right time to move on with things?" I ask her

a smart boy."

Great.

so useful just a while ago.

"Thanks, mom." I murmur.

love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When the time is right of

I told you I believe in marriage before sex." I yell feeling

you too," I say before

rumors, I am

#

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

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

"Quensilla."

that voice.

keep walking.

towards you."

don't turn around again." She nods looking

Theodore asks and

convinced but he brushes it off.

talk to you after school?"  He asks and I

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

me at the cafe just two blocks from

I'll see you then." He walks off and I can't help but

and I almost forgot she

#

So he actually did that? And now he wants you? I call b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what happened that night.

disgusted with me?" I ask her and she

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

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 later. It's the cycle of life."