Something was going on. Recently the across-the-street neighbor of Angel's family was doing a small renovation, at least that was what Angel thought. She got packages and even some furniture. The empty room with big windows that he could always see from the street suddenly wasn't full of boxes. There was a bed now and some new stuff, as Angel could see coming back from school. And then the curtains appeared.

One time Angel talked to her. The neighbor was super friendly. She was always talkative, so was Angel, so soon the teenager found out that the woman was getting an exchange student. Exciting, wasn't it?

He hadn't heard from her since, and forgot about it completely. Until that one day when he saw someone new in his maths class. I mean, it was NYC, there were a lot of new kids; besides, it was the beginning of the school year, but it was impossible for a freshman to be in Calculus. And he hasn't seen the girl around anymore. She also didn't act like a typical New Yorker.