Forty Five

I followed the nurse into her room deep inside the sexual health clinic.

“So,” she said, “is there anything we’re looking for, or…”

“Just a check up,” I said. “It’s been a couple of years…I probably need looking at.”

“Ok, so just a routine check-up?” She glanced at me but said nothing about the pause in my voice.

“Sure,” I said.

She read the screen of a laptop turned far enough away from me so I couldn’t see it.

“On the form you filled out you said you’ve had unprotected sex in...