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.

guys ended up in the same college?" She asks surprised. "What a

Right.

'Coincidence."

so. ." I began explaining everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was done, she was already

"Theodore Anthony Beckett. That is no way to

I get it. Can you please

She sighs.

from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs to learn to trust you. Most importantly you need to learn to trust each other."

the right time to move on with things?" I ask her and I can already

a smart

Great.

so useful just a while

mom." I murmur.

knocked up. Use a condom! When the time is right of course."

sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and she laughs loudly, mumbling a

too," I say before she hangs

Yes. It's true, despite all the rumors, I am

#

Pity Party." My new friend Lauren

exclaim and she rolls her eyes amused, her black curls

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

keep walking.

"Um, Silla. There's a boy like literally running towards you." I shut my eyes and walk faster.

She nods looking confused and soon I

and

but he brushes it off.

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

going to force you into anything." He says and I eye

two blocks from here." I agree wearily and he

He walks off and I can't

asks and I almost forgot she was behind me.

#

 wants 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 judge me

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

when he apologizes." She tilts her head in his direction and I catch him looking

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