My cousin, Amber, was my best friend. She was the only one I had ever confided in that I was gay. She loved me, just the same. The only thing was, that wasn't quite the truth. I knew even when I told her that I wasn't a man, not on the inside.

Just before our senior year, she moved away, leaving me on my own. After graduation, I decided to spend my last summer before college with her and hopped the first bus I could.

Once at her place, though, my secret came out and somehow she talked me into going dressed like the real me. Instead of being Carey, I would be Keri. I couldn't believe how I looked in the sexy outfit she loaned me and all made up.

We went to a party where I met a young man named Richard and it all was good... Very good. That is until a vengeful girl named Tonya exposed me as a biological male during a game of Truth or Dare and I found myself running from the pain and humiliation.

"I should have told him from the beginning," I chided myself. Now, I didn't know where to go or what to do or how to get my happiness back. And that's when I ran into Richard again.

"Truth or Dare?" he asked. What, I wondered, should my answer be?