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."

everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of

no way to treat a lady. I have-"

Can you please help

She sighs.

"Well, right now you need to start 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

I

a smart boy."

Great.

was so useful just a while

mom." I murmur.

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

told you I believe in marriage before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and

love you too," I say before she

the rumors, I am still a

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Pity Party." My new friend Lauren

and she rolls her eyes amused, her black curls

"Quensilla."

I know that voice.

I keep walking.

literally running towards

don't turn around again." She nods looking

asks and

doesn't look convinced but he brushes it off.

talk to you after school?"  He asks and

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

cafe just two blocks

walks off and I can't help but wonder what

and who was that?" Lauren asks and I almost

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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 instead she

totally and utterly disgusted with me?"

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

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