Christian pulled his tie up around his neck and grabbed his blazer. He was ready for another grueling day at his company. Christian was about to leave the room but the telephone rang. He hurried up an answered it, not wanted the phone to wake up AJ.

"Hello."

"Hello, my I speak to AJ Reso."

Christian looked over at the bed. AJ was still asleep from last night's activities.

"He is asleep right now but I can take a message." Christian said.

"Oh, I'll just call back." The girl on the other line hung up. Christian looked at the phone. He knew that voice from somewhere. He shook it off. He knew AJ wasn't doing anything shady.

Christian kissed AJ on the forehead and left for work.

An hour later, AJ was up and ready to go. He was trying not to think about the events that happened at the doctors yesterday so he decided to clean up. AJ looked around the family room. The house was a mess.

Thirty minutes into cleaning, the phone rang.

AJ picked up the phone without looking at the caller ID. "Hello."

"Hello AJ This is Jamie."

"Oh Hi Jamie. What's up?" AJ asked nervously.

"Can you come to my office today?"

"Yes, what time?"

"As soon as you can come. All of my clients are done for today."

"Ok, I'll be there in thirty minutes."

Twenty-nine minutes later, AJ was walking into Dr. Jamie's office once again. Jamie looked up from her paperwork.

"AJ." Jamie smiled. "Have a seat."

AJ sat down in the chair on the other side of the desk. "What's up?"

"So I have read over all the results many times and my prediction was right."

"Which was?"

"You have early on set dementia." Jamie said.

A long silence filled the air as AJ's weak mind tried to process this information. Dementia.

"Dementia." AJ said out loud. "I thought Dementia was for old people, people over 65."

"In most cases it is but that is why we call this early on set." Jamie looked at AJ's face. She could see the panic forming.

"AJ don't panic."

"Don't panic. Don't Panic! I Have Dementia. This isn't curable. I can't panic all I want." AJ started to shake in his seat, fighting back the tears that threaten to fall from his eyes. Jamie got up and sat next to AJ, pulling him in his arms.

"I understand this is hard." Jamie said. "You are right dementia is not curable but there are medicines that will slow the progression the disease down. I know this is all hard to process and accept but this is real. You have dementia and you need to be able to deal with this. You mind is already weak; don't let this bring you down even more.

AJ stopped shaking and held back all his tears. He pulled himself back from Jamie.

"I know, sorry I flipped out on you."

"It's ok. Some people do more than that." Jamie looked AJ in his eyes. "I'm going to need you to tell Mr. Reso because I want to explain everything to the both of you at the same time. After that, I can begin the treatment process."

"Ok I can do that. I will call you when I tell him."

"Good." Jamie looked at AJ. She saw the distress in his eyes. "Do you want me to take you home or call a cab."

"No I can make it."

"Are you sure? I can follow you."

"No. You have done enough." AJ stood up and took a deep breath. "I'll call you."


AJ walked into the front door of his house. AJ looked at the clock. It read 1:30 p.m. AJ sighed. Christian would be home at 5:00. This would give him plenty of time to cope.

AJ took off his clothes and put on some sweat pants and a T-shirt and sat on the couch. AJ let the tears fall down his face. How was he going to tell his husband? How would Christian react to this? Would he leave him? Christian couldn't take care of him and run a company.

AJ lay back on the couch while the millions of thought ran through his head. AJ continued to cry until he cried himself to sleep.


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