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.

college?" She asks

Right.

'Coincidence."

her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was done, she was already ranting.

That is no way to

get it. Can you please

sighs.

right now you need to 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.

I

"You'll know. You're a smart boy."

Great.

useful just a while ago.

mom." I murmur.

up. Use a condom! When

believe in marriage before sex." I yell

"I love you too," I say before she

rumors, I am still a

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

rolls her eyes amused, her black curls bounce as we

"Quensilla."

know that voice.

So I keep walking.

"Um, Silla. There's a boy like literally running towards

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

asks and I act confused

He doesn't look convinced but he brushes it off.

you after school?"  He asks and I immediately open

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

just two blocks

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

asks and I almost forgot she

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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

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

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 pudding.

too harsh on him okay? It may seem hard to forgive but. . . we all do some things that we're not supposed to and end