Practical lessons (standard:other, 1653 words)
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Awareness about the real deal of encountering a person with AIDS

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“We'll find something else to do. I tell ya, let's go back to my small 
hide-out and watch a movie on the DVD and spend a quiet evening 
together. O.k.? And we can do some dancing too. I've a good music 
system at home. Are you coming, young chap?” She asked. 

He took one look at her disarming smile and said yes. 

He took a pillion ride on her scooter and as the vehicle sped past the
neon lights of the advertising boards, his face glowed with 
anticipation of an exciting evening. Myriad thoughts raced across his 
virile mind and he wondered what story he will have by the end of the 
evening to relate to his friends the next day. He had never ever been 
this close to a feminine body and her fragrance tickled his senses and 
sent a tingling sensation down his spine as he drank it from the cool 
air that blew across his face. He prepared to spend a fantasy filled 
evening, pregnant with exciting possibilities. 

They reached her small hide-out which was a one-bedroom flat in the
suburbs of the city. As he entered he saw a well-kept room that boasted 
of a show-case stacked with books, DVDs and CDs standing against the 
wall, opposite to which lay a single comfortable sofa in blazing red 
colour with a few cushions thrown on it, which were a contrast in 
virgin white. The walls of the room were painted in a pleasant lemon 
yellow and a single large painting adorned its wall, overhanging the 
sofa –‘a painting of a collection of red roses in a black vase against 
a window sill'. As soon as he entered she closed the door behind them 
and locked it. 

As he settled down on the cushioned sofa, she went to the showcase and
fished out a wine bottle from one of its drawers and set it down on the 
small round glassy top of the centre-table. She brought two wine 
glasses from the kitchen, screwed open the wine bottle and began to 
fill the delicate glasses with the red liquid. Then she handed one 
glass to him and he accepted it with shaking and sweaty hands. She 
glided gracefully across to the showcase again and chose a DVD to play 
on her music system. When the soft song wafted out from the music 
system she gave him an inviting glance and gestured him to come and 
dance with her. He rose to her command and joined her, swaying slowly 
to the rhythm of the music while his pulse raced and his heartbeats 
thumped in his chest in raw excitement. Being close to her body he 
realized that underneath those loose fitting hip hop clothes she had a 
petite and thin body that could be easily cocooned in his athletic 
arms. They danced for a while, in between, taking breaks to sip the 
wine. Words were not exchanged and the silence stoked the fire of 
excitement in his mind with each passing minute. Then she abruptly 
stopped the music and inserted a disc into the video system and sank 
down on the sofa gesturing him to join her at her side. He settled down 
beside her, their bodies barely touching each other. 

The heady effect of the wine and the romantic movie started giving him
ideas and he wanted to explore further the possibility of his chances 
at taking his physical closeness to her one step further. Gathering 
courage, he slowly picked up his hand and tremblingly placed it on her 
thigh feeling the warmth of her skin through the thick clothes. She 
turned to him and smiled sweetly. The boom of his heart-beats now 
echoed in his warm ears and he was flushed with excitement by her 
response. Then she slowly picked up his hand and lifted it towards her 
face and started stroking her cheeks with it. Finally she carefully 
placed his hand back on his thigh and looked at him with a strange look 
across her face. 

“I have a deep dark secret to tell ya”, she said. What if I tell you
that I am suffering from AIDS? She asked in a quiet tone. 

He froze as if bitten by a snake. His mind tried to assimilate the
significance of the information she had shared with him while his body 
withdrew from any contact with her body. He knew he wanted to get up 
and bolt through the door but he was stuck to his chair. 

“Are you telling me the truth?” He managed to blurt out. 

“Yes, I am a HIV positive person” she said in a tone of finality. “Now
you probably want to leave, eh? I know you are already running away 
from me in your mind.  Look, I had no intention of fooling you into any 
foolhardy act tonight. I just wanted to give you a practical lesson to 
show you the real danger of AIDS that exists in our society and the 
careless attitude that people in general possess about its dangers. So 
now you would work more effectively in spreading the word of awareness 
all through out your life, not just for the sake of some social service 
activity as part of your school curriculum. Forgive me for giving you 
such a rude shock but I am sure now you will never ever forget to use 
all the precautions for your own self too, if and when the need arises. 
Whatever you learn in classrooms is all very good but real life has a 
more effective way of making you sensitive towards such issues. So 
young man, you can pick up your bag and leave and work sincerely to 
spread the word. It is not only about distributing free condoms, it is 
basically about being responsibly aware of the dangers at every nook 
and corner of life. Take care”, so saying she unlocked the door and 
held it ajar for him to leave. 

And just as he was hurriedly leaving she called from behind and said,
“Hey! Yes, can you do something about the rotten attitude that people 
possess towards HIV positive people? Maybe you can change yours a bit 
too! You did not even thank me for the evening or mention a sweet 
goodbye. Anyways, Good night and sweet dreams! 


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