I started fukking at 14. And at the time, I didn't have anyone really telling me about condoms. I knew, but I was always like "that ain't gone be me". So for the first 2 years of my active sex life I never used a condom. I was dating this girl *******. And I thought ******* was a good girl, turns out ******* was a hoe, and was fukking everyone in Brooklyn, but I DIDN'T KNOW. I found out because she had sex with one of my cousins in Coney Island. These are Myspace days too, so it was a little different. shyt wasn't all public. You could do your dirt on the low. Turns out she was fukking like crazy on the low, You know how you have those cousins that you never speak to? But you know that yall fam? One of those. So that's how I found out. My boy said he heard that she was cheating on me, and he did some research and found out mad shyt. So long story short, I find out when I turned 16 that she had that burn. Some dude she fukked had caught the shyt, and it turns out that she had it too. And for the longest, I always stalled on getting tested. I used to scare myself a lot. Looking in the mirror and seeing bumps, and assuming that I was sick, but too scared to go because I never wanted to find out I was sick even if I was. So eventually, I was like fukk it. I'd rather know. I went to get tested, but I had to pay for it out of pocket because I didnt' want my mom to know about it. I went and got tested. And I had to wait on the 48 hr results, because I didn't have enough $$$ for the rapid test . Bruh I waited the 2 days, scared as shyt everytime my phone rang. When she finally called, she went down the list, all she sad was that I had herpes 1. (the cold sore shyt that 95% of the population has) no STD's, no NOTHING. From then on I swore that I would NEVER HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX AGAIN.