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After that night I felt like a champ
I finally had a chance to get with this girl that I’ve been trying to get with ever since the 12th grade.
And even though my friends and family told me about her.
I just wanted to get with her since all I wanted was to take a chance…
I choose not to believe everyone’s gossip.
So, I played a game of chance.
Every time I lay down with this girl named Claire.
She made me feel good…like a real man should.
And I choose not to use protection every time we decided to do our deeds…
Dreams keep hunting me as I sleep at night…
The fear of not seeing my family and friends used to not scare me.
But it does now…
I thought that I had all the answers and that I didn’t need no one’s help with nothing.
And although my mind is wondering I wish now that there was a way that I could still change my ways…
Silence and darkness has surrounded me.
And I’m afraid…
I look for a way to escape but there is no way…
I hear a voice
A silent voice, so I follow I to another place…
I see a girl and I ask her.
“Why am I here?”
“Don’t you know?” she asks.
“Know what?”
“The night you had your first one-night stand…you contacted a virus that you could not keep away. And so, this is a sad, sad day for your family and your friends…”
And I quickly said that I still did not understand.
She told me that I had contracted AIDS during that one-night stand…and that I died from it on my mother’s 40th birthday…
So now I sit here in this new place hoping that my family and friends will understand.
It only took one night…just a one-night stand, for me to catch AIDS and let it take my life away…
I thought I knew everything.
But all I know now is that whatever I knew…
I lost it that day…
That day during my first one-night stand