A couple of weeks went by and Mimi continued to successfully hide her secret from Roger. She felt bad hiding things from him because they always talked about how they wanted no secrets between them but if he knew then he wouldn't want to be with her anymore. She made it her priority to keep her secret from him because she didn't want to lose him. She couldn't lose him. He was all she had. Him and his friends. And if her broke up with her then his friends wouldn't be her friends anymore. That's just how relationships worked.

She was sitting on the couch in her small living room thinking about all of this and then door bell rang and startled her. She quickly collected her thoughts before standing up and going to answer the door. She smiled when she saw her amazing boyfriend, Roger standing there. The one she was keeping a secret from.

She hugged him and gave him a quick kiss on the lips before letting him come inside.

"Do you want anything to eat or drink, Rog?" She asked as she looked for something for herself.

Just when she opened the fridge she heard a beeping sound go off. Shit, shit, shit. What was she supposed to do? This was the first time her beeper had gone off in front of Roger. She hadn't intended for it to happen either so she didn't even have a fake story made up in her mind yet. She had to think fast.

"I'll be right back," she said so quickly that her words just got all slurred together.

She ran to the bathroom and detached her beeper, trying to calm herself down. She quickly swallowed her AZT pill and left the beeper and the pills in the bathroom before going back to the living room to talk to Roger. She was hoping he wouldn't ask any questions about why she had ran to the bathroom so quickly because she didn't know how she would answer that question. She didn't even know how she could keep up this lie anymore.

"Mimi? Baby, what's wrong?" He asked, seeing the distress on her face.

She just shook her head, still not wanting him to find out although it would be easier if she just told him. She wouldn't have to lie anymore and she could just go back to being a nobody with no one to care about her. She already knew what it was like and had survived it for 16 years before she met Roger so maybe she would be able to handle it for the two years she had left in high school.

"It's nothing," she murmured. "Nothing for you to worry about anyway. Now was there something you wanted to eat or drink?"

"Mimi, no, I don't want anything to eat or drink. I want you to tell me the truth. You're hiding something right now and I can see that. What happened to no secrets? Don't you want to be honest with me?"

Mimi felt tears springing to her eyes when he played the honesty card. Tons of guilt washed over her and she knew she had to just tell him. Even though it would end their relationship at least she had been honest.

She slowly got up and grabbed her beeper and her pills and handed them to Roger.

"This is what I've been hiding from you, Roger. I've been hiding it ever since the day we met. I know it's not the greatest thing to find out your girlfriend has HIV so I didn't want to tell you. I didn't want to lose you…"

Roger was so shocked to find that Mimi was HIV positive. His jaw almost dropped because he was so shocked. It made him wonder how she contracted the disease. The only way he would be angry with her about it was if she got it by sleeping with someone while they were dating but he really didn't think that was the case. She was crazy about him or at least she made it seem that way.

"How…how did you contract it, Meems?" He asked her gently, not wanting to upset her more than she already was.

"Before I came here I was very into drugs. It helped me escape my sucky life and at the time it was my solution to all of my problems. Long story short, I shared a needle with the wrong person at the wrong time and now I have this wonderful disease. Fantastic girlfriend you've got, huh?"

It broke Roger's heart to hear Mimi talking like that about herself. Didn't she know he cared about her enough to stay with her whether she had this disease or not? It was something she had done in her past. Everyone does bad things in the past but that doesn't make them bad people. It really didn't make him think anything differently of her besides the fact that they couldn't have sex without him contracting the disease of death. And it made him worry about losing her but he didn't think she was a bad person and he definitely didn't want to break up with her.

"Mimi, don't talk about yourself like that. You are amazing and I'm not going to leave you because you've got a disease. That would be stupid of me. You're the same person and I don't think badly of you now. I want to be with you forever."

Mimi looked up at him, surprised by his words. She had been expecting the complete opposite.

"Really? You still want to be with me even though we can't have sex and I could die soon?"

Roger nodded without giving it a second thought.

"You're special to me Mimi. I want to be with you no matter what. I care about more than just sex and lifetime guarantees."