"Yeah it's cool," Brendan said, then shifted his knife and fork and sighed. "That thing about the hospice though. I - um - it was hard because it's too close to home. There were a lot of AIDs patient and ..." he sighed again. "I just freaked. I guess I finally admitted to myself that I could wind up like that one day." He looked up at Zack and lifted his shoulders a little. "Unless they find a cure for HIV."