"Is it two or three," she asked calmly. "Because that makes a difference. After seventy two hours, they usually won't even give you PEP, because it's not generally beneficial after that. I assume the guy you slept with was Positive?" she continued. Zed was pretty openly gay, and it was common knowledge. She could only have assumed he slept with a guy. But she did know he was holding back a lot here, and she needed to know anything and everything that might somehow make a difference here in what was going on with him. Any detail may be useful, though she knew it couldn't be easy to tell your mom's best friend who was like an aunt to you about the unprotected sex you'd had in Vegas. "Anything you tell me in here, you tell me as your doctor, Zed. Not as your mom's friend. I am here to give you medical care right now. Not to report anything back to your mom or anyone else."

Karla hadn't quite expected that, but she tried not to let her surprise show. Ultimately, Zed was opening up to her because he clearly needed to be able to talk to someone... probably more than he realized if he was going out and having unprotected sex. She couldn't vouch for his life before he'd come to live with Heather and Joe, but she knew that they were both very open parents and had talked to Zed and the twins about protection. But then, when you weren't in the best place mentally, you often didn't make the best decisions. Karla knew that as well as anyone did. "Someone from your past? Is this someone who's part of the reason you ended up in foster care in the first place?" she asked gently. She didn't want to push him to talk if he didn't want to, but she also didn't want him to feel that she didn't care about this part of things, and was only trying to get to the clinical facts. He needed to talk, and there was so much more to this story than unprotected sex in Vegas.