`If you need help,you should contact the appropriate person` Tylers mother always tells him. Tyler never takes anything his mother says serious and certainly not when she tries to help him out. Asking for help is for weak people and Tyler doesn't see himself as weak. Even more so, his mother works with disabled people and he thinks his mother gradually has gotten the feeling that everyone around her is disabled. Yet he dials the number of the STD helpline in December. He tells himself that it is the STD information line and that he only needs information. He repeats the word "information line" a few times to himself before he calls. He finally got the courageous to do so.

"Good afternoon, STD helpline, Sara ," It sounds on the other end of the line. Sara has the same smoky voice as his aunt. He feels uncomfortable because he doesn't want to feel like he is talking about STDs with his aunt. Still, He doesn't not hang up the phone.
"Good afternoon, It`s Tyler Gudanick." He says. His father had learned him, that you should always introduce yourself with first and last names, because then you will be taken more serious. Unlike anything his mother says, he always listens carefully to his dads words.
"What can I help you with?" Sara asks.
Tyler looks out of his window, he sees the street he lives in. His neighbor is taking the lock of her bicycle. He had whistled at her in a drunken slumber once. Since then, she ignores him.

"Are you ever afraid of dying?" Tyler whispers.
There was silence on the other end of the line. Sara was probably not expecting this question.
"Not that I know, but this is the STD helpline."
"I have been told that I have chlamydia today. First it chlamydia and soon it will be HIV. "
"You can get tested for HIV." Sara said. "That's very simple."
"Lucy, is the girl that gave me this STD," Tyler says. He didn't not know why he said that.

Tyler felt he had to tell her name to prove that he actually got an STD from someone. Furthermore, there was not much to prove, because she didn't leave anything in his room and there were no pictures of them together. She had only sat on top of him a few times, that was all.
"Did that Lucy already get tested?"
"I still need to tell her."
"I would do that right away if I were you."
"You know, she looks a lot like Princess Leia '
"I do not know who you mean.'

The longer he was on the phone with Sara, the less her voice began to sound like his aunt. Sara's voice was lower, less sharp. She sounded like someone who had a dog. A single woman with a dog.Tyler also imagined that she had sex with a lot of men. You do not just work at the STD helpline, right?
"Too bad." Tyler says. "You should search her on the Internet if you have the time. She is really nice. That's also why I took Lucy home i guess. Because she looked like her. "
"You should not have unsafe sex with girls straight away."
"My friends always say that I shouldn't take girls home that look like actresses, than it can only be a  disappointment, they say."

"Did they give you any antibiotics?"
"Yes. Azithromycin. Is it possible it will kill me? "I know that you should never just swallow something. Before you know it, the papers tell you that there is something wrong in the factory in China where the drug was manufactured and  suddenly you're at the doctor, who will push brochures of specialist hospitals into your arms.
'I do not think so.' Sara replies
"You think so, are you sure?"
"I'll just ask." Sara puts the phone down. Maybe it was her headset. I have no idea how things are going at the office of the STD helpline. In any case it sounds like murmuring in the background. Maybe it Sara`s first day and that was why she was not sure whether you could die of Azithromycin.
"Thanks for waiting." Sara says as she came back. "You can get some bowel complaints."
"But there are no known deaths?"
'No.'
'Okay thanks. Then I'm going to hang up now. "
"Fine, you can always call if you have any questions."
"See you later." Tyler says, even though that's a strange thing to say on the phone.
"Goodbye." says Sara.

After that phone call, Tyler went to the gym. He had to get rid of all his frustration . The people around him saw it too, because he was quite pounding down on the treadmill. Afterwards Tyler ordered some Chinese. It was delivered in those plastic containers with gray paper wrapped around it. On top of the container was a fortune cookie. In the middle of the cookie was a piece of paper with a message:

Save for yourself the rest of the day. That will do you good.

Tyler took that message very seriously. After he finished the container with noodles, he was therefore going to drink a few beers with Mark and Freddy. They talked a bit about music and he asked if they got laid recently. Mark said he did, Freddy said no. The days after Tyler was saving himself still. he did not go to his classes. Instead, he was watching series in bed the whole day. Until this day he is still saving himself, even if it is a month since he broke the cookie. He still hasn't called Lucy. Sometimes Tyler thinks about calling her, but then ends up not doing it in the end. At the mall, he sometimes sees a woman walking a dog. Every time he wonders, if it`s Sara.

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