What you are about to read is a true story.

Imagine that you are a young teen-aged girl and that, through no fault of your own, you have been HIV-positive since birth. You were born with a condition for which there is no cure, for which you have to take medicine every day of your life.

Imagine also that you have a caring mother who was also HIV-positive through no fault of her own. And that your dad had died of AIDs. No one outside of your mother and your medical team knows that you are HIV-positive. Now it's time for you to enter middle school.