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. "What

Right.

'Coincidence."

." I began explaining everything to her leaving out the dirty parts,

no way to

I get it. Can you please

She sighs.

right now you need to start from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and

right time to move on with things?" I ask her

You're a smart boy."

Great.

just a while

mom." I

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

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

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

true, despite all the rumors,

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think that Soap is better than Pity Party." My new friend Lauren

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

"Quensilla."

know that voice.

So I keep walking.

a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes and walk faster.

She nods looking confused and soon I am spun around.

asks and I act confused shaking my

look convinced but he

asks and I immediately open my eyes to decline.

going to force you into anything." He

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

I can't help but

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

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And now he wants you? I call b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and

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

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

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 of life."