Please Don't Touch

9. To New Beginnings.

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.

college?" She asks surprised. "What a coincidence!"

Right.

'Coincidence."

"Right so. ." I began explaining everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was

"Theodore Anthony Beckett. That is no way to treat a lady. I have-"

get it. Can you please

sighs.

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

things?" I ask her and I can already

a

Great.

She was so useful just a

"Thanks, mom." I murmur.

always welcome sweetie. I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When the time

before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat

I say before she

true, despite all the rumors, I am still a

#

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

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

"Quensilla."

that

I keep walking.

towards

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

Theodore asks and I

but

asks and I immediately open

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

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

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

asks and I almost

#

"Woah. 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

me?" I ask

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

all do some things that we're

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