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.

up in the same college?"

Right.

'Coincidence."

out the dirty parts, of

That is no way to treat a

"I know mom I get it. Can you please help me

She sighs.

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

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

a

Great.

just a while

I murmur.

"You're always welcome sweetie. I love you. Don't her knocked up. Use a condom! When the time is right of course."

in marriage before sex." I yell

I say before she hangs up and begins planning.

rumors, I am

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Pity Party." My

amused, her black curls

"Quensilla."

that

So I keep walking.

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

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

and I act confused shaking my

convinced but he

I talk to you after school?"  He asks and I immediately

force you into anything." He says

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

see you then." He walks off and I can't help but wonder

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

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into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what happened that night. I was surprised she

and utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and

. 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. As soon as I meet his eye, he leans forward and stares

all do some things that we're not supposed to and end up regretting it later.