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"Does your partner have symptoms now of an STD?"

"Don't know"

Could he seriously bla conditions on hi these questions like this, made him afraid of himself If he were Mia he didn't think that he would want to sleep with hi to happen; he was far worse-to happen

"Do you currently have symptoms of an STD?"

"I'm not sure…"

"Do you think that you are at risk for HIV infection?"

Pause

That question n disease that got talked about in the media, in classrooms, anywhere and everywhere except around hi that happened to other people; it was a disease that other people worried about- not him

"Do you think that you are at risk for HIV infection?" She repeated again

Pause

To him HIV had always been somebody else's proble that it could be a real factor in his

"Of… Of… Yes…" finally he choked out It was hard for him to admit it but yes he was at risk for HIV

"Why?"

Her question surprised him What did she "

"Have you or your partners ever had a blood transfusion?"

"No… Don't know…"

"Do you or your partners use alcohol? IV drugs?"

"Yes to alcohol, no to IV drugs… Don't know about ed sex for s, or shelter?"

If Jayden had been traumatized before with his encounter with the hooker, than he was terrorized and suffering fro out of the doctor's office After the questionnaire, the assistant then took out what looked like extended Q-tips and swabbed down every orifice on his body leaving no hole unchecked, examined or swabbed She carefully placed each of those swabs into their own plastic bagging to prevent cross contamination and then she had hi for the doctor Jayden had wanted to forget that exa with his last sexual encounter However then the doctor entered and seely to Jayden he did a more detailed and extended but repeat performance of what his assistant had already done