“Are you okay Hazel? You seem a bit…stressed?” I smiled; Joel always knew when I was upset. I laid my head on his shoulder and sighed, “I’m just really tired is all.”

“Aww, is there anything else?”

I curled up closer to him as he wrapped his arms around me, “Liam got in trouble in school today too.”

“Oh? What did he do?”

I gulped. How am I suppose to tell him this? “He was just acting out is all.”

“And what are you worried about? Do you think he’s going to become a problem child or something?”

“Not really. Just…well I’m a mother. You’d understand if you were in my place.”

“Okay,” He agreed. I yawned, “Can you get me some water?”

“Sure.”

_{Little did Hazel know, that as Joel went searching for a glass, he came across a cabinet, finding bottles upon bottles of AZT with Liam and Hazel’s names written on the prescriptions. He understood.}

He learned.

But Hazel still did not know that Joel knew they had AIDS .