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.

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

Right.

'Coincidence."

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

Beckett. That is no way to treat a lady.

mom I get it. Can you please help me now?"

She 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 trust each other."

time to move on with things?" I

You're a smart boy."

Great.

She was so useful just a while ago.

mom." I

Don't her knocked up. Use a condom!

told you I believe in marriage before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and she laughs loudly,

too," I say before she

rumors, I am still a virgin.

#

Party." My new friend Lauren says as we discuss songs from Melanie

her eyes amused, her black curls bounce

"Quensilla."

I know that

I keep

towards you." I shut my

do, don't turn around again." She nods looking

hear me?" Theodore asks and I act confused shaking my head.

look convinced but he

to you after school?"  He asks and

to force you into anything." He says and I eye him

cafe just two blocks from here."

and I can't help

and I almost forgot she was behind me.

#

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. I

not totally and utterly disgusted with me?"

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 pudding.

to forgive but. . . we all do some