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.

in the same college?" She asks surprised. "What a coincidence!"

Right.

'Coincidence."

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

no way to treat a

"I know mom I get it. Can you please help me

sighs.

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

is the right time to move on with things?" I

You're a smart

Great.

She was so useful just a while ago.

"Thanks, mom." I murmur.

knocked up. Use

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

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

all the rumors,

#

better than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren says as we discuss songs

her eyes amused, her black

"Quensilla."

that voice.

So I keep walking.

a boy like literally running towards you." I

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

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

doesn't look convinced but he brushes it

you after school?"  He asks and I immediately open my eyes to decline.

into anything." He says and

at the cafe just two blocks from here." I

He walks off and I can't help

"What and who was that?" Lauren asks and

#

It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what happened that night. I was surprised

totally and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and

which also goes for him 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 and stares at me even more. I avert my

seem hard to forgive but. . . we all do some things