There is no way I could have stayed at school if I had let myself see what these lawyers, teachers, and priests had done. But I don’t think I could have figured it out even if I had been willing, because as far as I knew, the school had found out about my herpes only after my doctor had tested me for it at home. And by then the previous sixth formers had graduated, and everyone else had gone; there was no one left to gather and tell.
