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 asks surprised.

Right.

'Coincidence."

everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was done, she

way to treat a

get it. Can you

sighs.

Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't ready

things?" I ask her and I can already sense her smile.

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

Great.

useful just a

"Thanks, mom." I

I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use

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

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

all the rumors, I

#

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

"It is!" I exclaim and she rolls her eyes amused, her black curls bounce as we walk down the hall.

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

So I keep walking.

towards you." I shut my eyes

turn around again." She nods looking confused and soon I

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

look convinced but

school?"  He asks and I immediately open my eyes to

you into anything." He says and

two blocks

walks off and I can't help but wonder what I just

asks and I

#

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 at

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

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

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