Problem.... What kind of damage control do I need??

[Claudia Zylindrias]

All I need some advice. Here is the situation. My cousin (female, 21yrs old, pretty southern conservative) has been staying with us for about 7 weeks or so and she is supoose to be here till the end of May. She does not know about "Claudia" even through I'm not in the closet. I go out dressed often maybe not allways completly fem but at least a skirt and some make-up, but have not done that while she has been here. Anyways she met a guy about a week or so at school. They have been going out since. Thursday morning she tells me that they are going up to Maine for the weekend. So I thought great I will get the kids to stay at a friends house for the weekend and I going to let my hair down.

So Friday night I take a long bath, do some pampering, etc. I slip into a baby doll and the SO and I watch some movies with wine etc. Saturday morning we went shopping then we both hit the salon and went to a club for drinks and dancing. Had a great time. We headed home at about 10ish just due to her working early tomorrow. We walk in the door and I head upstairs from the basement to the first floor. Lo and behold their is my cousin and her boyfriend and another young couple (early 20's) in my kitchen. I here I am in a black and silver party dress with wig and makeup the whole works.

You could have heard a pin drop, I tried to play it off as a fetish/costume club night with me and my SO. But unfortunetly my SO was only wearing a regular skirt and blouse. Nothing fetishistic or costume-like there. They all filed out pretty quickly from the house and my Cousin awkwardly said that she was going to his dorm room to "hang out" a bit with him....

What can I say that won't get back to my family, My dad would have a MI if he found out. Not to mention that a better chuck of my brothers and sisters doors would be closed to my kids and I over something like this. Being a CD in Massachusetts is easy, no big deal up here. But in a small city in south Texas were my family is well known well needless to say that it would be very problematic. Any ideas???