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.

"You guys ended up in the same college?" She

Right.

'Coincidence."

the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was done,

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

know mom I get it. Can you please

She sighs.

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

on with things?" I ask her and I can already

a smart

Great.

so useful just a

I murmur.

always welcome sweetie. I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use

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

love you too," I say before she hangs up and

all the rumors, I

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you think that Soap is better than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren says as we discuss songs from

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

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

keep

boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes

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

Theodore asks and I act confused shaking my head.

look convinced but he brushes it off.

asks and I immediately open my eyes to

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

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

can't help but wonder what I just got

"What and who was that?" Lauren asks and I almost forgot she was behind me.

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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

. .you're not totally and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and she raises an

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

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