For example, there wasonly one place in the entire "city" that sold cigarettes twenty-fourhours a day and it involved a ?10 taxi fare if you ran out o... cigarettesat two in the morning because the only place was a garage three milesaway.If there was one thing more than anything I hated about this so-calledcity, it was homophobia was generally acceptable and ripping on gays wasalways the "in" thing.I found it even harder as I got ripped on by other gays sometimes too. Iwent to a friendly bar. "Only if you are but I didn't bring anything," she added.I flashed a cheeky smile and said, "I am staying and you only need me." She leaned in and kissed under my ear being slightly shorter than me which made my knickers wet instantly. "You shouldn't have done that," I whispered. "Which one's your room?" she asked as she slowly backed away signalling me to follow her. I confidently walked past her leading the way upstairs and out of everyone's sight. I was confident we'd go unnoticed as this. THE reality, for it is inevitable you will accept the truth.”“Truth, what truth?”“That you belong to me, my dear, as my willing and eager maidservant.”A shock ran through me, I rang like a bell struck by the force of his words.“Non, Monsieur,” I said, “Je suis libre - Oh!”It had happened again. Somehow, without noticing it, I had slipped back into the body of a woman. More than that. I knew somehow that it had always been so. Not a transformation, a change, or an alteration, simply the true. "Rachel, it's getting late and I'm tired after that drive today," the drive really wasn't that far but I needed an excuse to get away and get my head back together, "so I'm going to bed, we'll finish this in the morning."*I went into my bedroom shutting the door behind me. I stripped off and took a shower hoping the hot water would work its magic and relieve me of the pain my heart was feeling.The hot shower and the whiskey worked in just a few minutes I was rapidly coming around to the fact.