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.

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

Right.

'Coincidence."

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

no way to treat a

"I know mom I get it. Can

sighs.

both you and her aren't ready for. She needs to learn to trust you. Most importantly you need to learn to trust

move on with things?" I ask her and I can already sense her

know. You're a

Great.

just a while

I murmur.

knocked up. Use a condom! When

marriage before sex." I yell feeling my cheeks heat up and she

before she

the rumors,

#

Pity Party." My new friend Lauren says as we

her black curls bounce as we walk

"Quensilla."

that voice.

So I keep

towards you." I shut my eyes and walk

again." She nods looking confused

asks and I act confused shaking my head.

He doesn't look convinced but he brushes it

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

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

cafe just two blocks from

can't help but wonder what I

asks and I almost

#

 wants you? I call b.s." Lauren shrugs biting into her sandwich. It was lunchtime and I filled Lauren in at what

utterly disgusted with me?" I ask her and she

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

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