<span style="color: #0000FF">The scrawny boy sat down next to her and started writing in a notebook. "What did your note say?" She attempted to be as clear as she could, but her thick Jamaican accent was sometimes hard to understand. Smiling, she made eye contact with the boy and awaited his response. He was very different than the other two, who looked like a couple out of one of those American high school movies. Shalonna hated those movies. Coming to America was one of the hardest things she had ever done, and discovering that it was nothing like the movies said it was had made the change even more difficult on her.</span><br/><br/><br/><span style="color: #FF00FF">Annaleigh nodded towards the other girl in agreement with Letterman boy. She looked around then and took in the three people she had been brought to. None of them looked fit to be together. The dark skinned girl barely spoke English. However, Anna was determined to make the best with what she had. She looked at the house carefully, analyzing whether or not it appeared empty. The area outside the house was severely unkempt and the paint job looked to be several years without repair. Even the steps where the other two were sitting looked as though no one had touched them in several seasons. </span>