Ixchel Park was, beyond the shadow of a doubt, completely done with living in Mexico.
An American through and through (at least, certainly by the end of her contract) all she wanted to do was board the plane, sleep through the flight, and wake up back in a land where drinking water from the tap didn't give you horrible diarrhea. She'd never felt more patriotic than when she gave the Mexican airport security her passport, dragging all of her luggage behind her.
This time abroad had been, quite literally, the most stressful time of her life.
All of her lab techs were total morons. How any of them had gotten as far as they had, Chel never could have guessed. She felt like the keeper of a bunch of suicidal lemurs, trying desperately to keep them all on track and away from the giant fucking cliff. Everyone was always hooking up, nobody filed their notes properly, and the responsibility of it all came down squarely on Ixchel's head.
By the end of it, when her bosses had asked her if she wanted to stay in Mexico for another year, she had actually cried at the idea of spending another year in her teeny-tiny recámara.
She had refused the offer as graciously as possible, and lunged at the chance to get back to America without breaking her contract. She hadn't been home in more than a year, and she'd been working her butt off in a lab full of people who didn't respect her. Not only that, they were no closer in accomplishing what they had set out to do. The average chicken's embryo size would remain the same, as far as her team was concerned, and she was getting the hell out of dodge.
Now, all that being said, it had still been a year. A long enough time, for sure, to provide a shakeup to the routine in the Fordham Avenue household.
After all, life goes on. And in this barely-disguised attempt for a shakeup in the status quo of a chapter, plenty of things had changed, both for Chel and the rest of the girls in the townhouse that she was now happy to be returning to...
When Chel left, she had weighed just north of 160lbs. But when she returned home...
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