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.

college?" She asks surprised. "What a

Right.

'Coincidence."

everything to her leaving out the dirty parts, of course, and by the time I was

Beckett. That is no way to treat a

I get it. Can you please help me

She sighs.

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

I

"You'll know. You're a smart boy."

Great.

so useful just a while ago.

mom." I

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

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

before she

the rumors, I am

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

I exclaim and she rolls her eyes amused, her black

"Quensilla."

know that voice.

I keep walking.

towards you." I shut my

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

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

but he brushes it off.

to you after school?"  He asks

"Please, I promise I'm not going to force you into

two blocks from here." I

I can't

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

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call b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what happened that night.

not totally and utterly disgusted with me?" I

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 at me even

"Hey, don't be too 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 it later. It's the cycle of life."