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."

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

Beckett. That is no way to

it. Can you please

She sighs.

something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs to

move on with things?" I ask

a smart boy."

Great.

useful just

I

knocked up.

believe in marriage before sex." I yell

too," I say before she hangs up and begins

the rumors, I am still

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

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

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

So I keep walking.

There's a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes and

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

and I act confused shaking my head.

but he brushes

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

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

cafe just two blocks from here." I agree wearily and he smiles.

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

asks and I almost

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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

and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and

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

be 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 up regretting it later. It's the cycle