The ten or so days left until Dan would get his HIV test results back passed. Those days were a mix of routine boredom at his work (grateful for the distraction), combined with sleepless nights worrying about the results of his test and what would happen to Adam.
Many nights, when Dan was able to manage getting to sleep, he would awaken from nightmares drenched in sweat and then immediately recall how night sweats were one of the signs of what they were calling seroconversion. Yes, Dan had been doing his reading on the subject, perhaps too much.
He would awake most mornings certain he was infected. He would fall asleep each night telling himself that just couldn’t be. He was a top, mostly, after all, and wasn’t it the guys who bottomed who were getting “it”? Sure, Dan, if thinking that w
