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.

same college?" She asks

Right.

'Coincidence."

parts, of course, and by the time I was

no way

get it. Can you please help me

sighs.

from scratch. Try being friends first before just jumping into something that both you and her aren't ready for. She needs

move on with things?" I

"You'll know. You're a smart

Great.

She was so useful just

I

I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When the time is right

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

before she hangs

despite all the rumors, I am

#

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

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

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep walking.

"Um, Silla. There's a boy like literally running towards you." I

again." She nods looking confused and soon I am spun

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

He doesn't look convinced but he brushes it off.

to you after school?"  He asks and

into anything." He

just two blocks from here." I

I can't help but wonder what I just got myself into.

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

#

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 what happened that

not totally and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and she raises an eyebrow.

from them. . . 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.

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