On this breezy and snowing Sunday after coming back from church, I decided to lay on my sofa and watch MTV cribs. As I was watching television I heard a doorbell, and since I was so comfortable I told my sister to go see who it was. When she came back she told me that it was for me.
"who can this be", I muttered.
As I was walking to the door I heard cries and as I was getting closer and closer to the door these cries was getting louder. When I arrived at the door, I saw that it was my friend Gina crying. Her eyes were puffy and her face was wet from all the tears that were coming from her eyes.
Gina was a young, pretty, intelligent, and very flirtatious girl that I had met through my best friend Johns. At the time I met Gina, John was going with her. As I saw Gina crying it made me sad and wonder why was she crying.
"would you like to come upstairs to my room and talk about it?" I ask
"can we please," she replied
when we got upstairs I told Gina to hold on, so I could go downstairs and get her some tissues to wipe her face and some water to cool her down. When I came back I sat next to her and asked her what was wrong.
"I'm scared to die," she said
"Why would you be scared?" I ask
"because I am HIV positive," she answered
Hearing this news made me shock, my eye's were all wide and my mouth was open and for a minute or two I didn't breath. After catching my breath I asked her how she got it.
"A year ago when I was still going with John, my friends and I had went to a club. As we was dancing and having fun, I met and became attracted to this boy named Chris. Since John still had feelings for me, I didn't feel like breaking his heart, so I decided to go out with both of them" she replied
Hearing this made me a little mad at her because instead of her telling my best friend that she didn't like him any more she decided to go out with both of them" She replied
Hearing this made me a little mad at her because instead of her telling my best friend that she didn't like him any more she decided to cheat on him.
She then explained that as time went on, her feeling for Chris continued to expand and eventually she had sexual intercourse with him. She also explained to me that when they were about to have sex she begged Chris to used protection but Chris told her that he doesn't like the way it feel's. He also told her that she doesn't have to worry about anything because he's sterile.
"That liar, I shouldn't have believed him" she said
"So how did you know that you was HIV positive?" I asked
"Three month later after having sex with Chris, I was very sick. I kept throwing up and kept feeling these strange feeling inside my body. Thinking I was pregnant I decided to go to a clinic and take a pregnancy test. At the clinic they offered me an HIV test. At first I didn't want to take the HIV test because I thought that I wouldn't be HIV positive, but then I decided to take it anyway just to be sure. Three weeks later, when the results came it said that I wasn't pregnant but I was HIV positive.
At first didn't believed it, I though that the result was an error and decided to take the test over. When the second results came in it told me again that I tested positive for HIV. As I saw these results, I fell ti my knees and began to cry because I couldn't believed that I had caught this virus. I don't know what to do now, I'm scared to tell my parents because I don't know what their reaction will be, especially my father."she said
"Calm down, everything is going to be okay" I replied. You should first inform your parents about this news because even if they will be mad at you, they're your parent and they are the one that could get you the best advice and treatment for this virus. You should hurry up to go see a doctor so he can give you some medication that will treat the virus before it develops in to AIDS.
"I dont think that u should tell your friends because they might try to put you aside because you have this virus. They also might spread rumors about you."
After having a long conversation with Gina, I walked her home because it was very late. As we were walking she thank me for giving her the time and the advice. Later on that night I couldn't sleep because I still couldn't believed that Gina had caught this virus. I kept telling myself how it's mess up for a persom to spread such a deadly disease. Gina catching this virus made me promise myself that I will always use protection and always be less sexual active.
