Discovery_Of_AIDS

Discovery Of AIDS It seemed like it would make him die, just speaking it. So I didn’t tell anyone, not even my best friends. At school I would slip into a fantastical dreamland, nobody there knew that I should be troubled, pensive. I put on my best front and paraded around the school halls with some sort of smile plastered on my face. At lunchtime I’d stare at my food thinking that my friends should know. I thought of a million different ways to tell them. Each time that I came close to telling them, I would think about their potential reactions. There would be the normal lunchtime banter going on, complaints about the ranch dressing, and I would blurt out, Hey guys, my dad has AIDS. The whole cafeteria would turn silent and the plastic forks would drop from their hands, making a sad little clinking noise. Then I would stare at my food mentally kicking myself for having opened my mouth. I chose to say nothing. I remember very clearly the day that I went to go sit with him during a stay in the hospital. I only did this once because it was too hard for me. I walked together, friends, didn’t, think, over, out, myself, mom, long, lemons, it’s, during, dad, best, two, trying, tired, time, tell, strong, stare, should, school, room, normal, nice, made, lunchtime, look, just, iv, hey, having, hard, hands