Step One: Finding Out
Isabelle
"Oh my God," I complained to my roommate Sarah, "can you believe my mom would just accept a new exchange student without asking me? I can't believe her!"
"Well how do you know it's a bad thing? You haven't even met the guy yet. Where did you say he was from again?" Sarah shot right back at me.
"I didn't. He's from Ohio, nothing interesting. His name is James and he's a senior just like us. He'll be here on Friday. Why does my dad have to go along with everything my mom says? He just said, 'It'll be good for the whole family.'"
"I guess we'll just have t wait and see then."
Alex and Brittany's daughter, Isabelle, had grown up in a very close-knit family. There were her parents, Alex and Brittany Fuentes, her aunts and uncles, Carlos and Kiara and Luis and Nikki, her four brothers, Paco, Sam, Adam, and AJ, and her cousins, which were too many to name. Brittany had decided many years ago to help out exchange students. They had enough money to do it, since they found a cure for Alzheimer's, and there family was stable enough as well. Sarah was the first exchange student. Alex and Brittany had adopted her when her parents died in a car accident, so she was as much a part of the family as the rest of them. After this, Brittany's plans for a new exchange student every year or so had changed, until now that is. James Scott was coming to Fairfield, Illinois from Cincinnati, Ohio. He was top of his class and looking to get into college in Illinois. If he could live in state, he would get lower tuition. Alex was not too happy about this student though. He didn't like the idea of a boy he didn't know living in the house with his only daughter. He eventually warmed up to the idea but only under special circumstances.