Secret Confessions

I got it into my head that I wanted to hook up with an ex girlfriend on a trip to my home state with my current girlfriend. All I could think about was the great sex we use to have & if I could just get away for an afternoon no one would be the wiser. I called her house & her mother answered & said bluntly & with no emotion, "Sue is dead" WHAT? HOW? WHEN? "5 years ago, she had aids." OMG she got aids right after I left or even right before I left. I felt so awful, so many emotions, sadness & anger but you know what mostly I felt. It was relief. Relief that I did not have aids & relief that we could not hook up. I have been faithful to my girlfriend ever since. To this day it makes me shutter to think I came so close to contracting aids.