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 a coincidence!"

Right.

'Coincidence."

parts, of course, and

way to treat a

"I know mom I get it. Can

sighs.

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

I ask

a smart boy."

Great.

She was so useful just a

I murmur.

Don't her knocked up. Use a condom!

before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks

I say before she hangs up and

It's true, despite all the rumors, I am

#

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

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

"Quensilla."

that voice.

So I keep walking.

towards you." I shut my eyes and walk faster.

again." She nods

"You didn't hear me?" Theodore asks and I act confused

but he brushes it

school?"  He asks and I immediately open

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

"Alright. Meet me at the cafe just two blocks from

He walks off and I can't help

and I almost forgot she

#

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. I was surprised she didn't judge me instead she agreed with

me?" I ask her and she raises

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

but. . . we all do some things that we're not supposed to and end up regretting it later. It's the cycle of life."