Emma Moves In

Chapter Seven

After a week at her new school, Emma is exhausted. It’s hard being a new kid. Even though most of her classmates are friendly, it’s just tiring getting used to everything being so new.

After school, the girls and Tomás come home to their moms cooking breakfast foods in the kitchen. They tell Emma that it’s taking Harvest Moon even longer than anticipated to find a replacement for Dad, so he won’t be able to join them at Seaview House for a while. Emma is disappointed. She was expecting him to come home any day.

When Aunt Alison asks Emma how her first week went, she says that some kids are nice, but some aren’t so nice. Zoe unsubtly says that Emma’s talking about Caitlin. Natalia is surprised; she didn’t see Caitlin do or say anything mean. Natalia offers to talk to Caitlin about it, but that’s the opposite of what Emma wants. That will just draw attention to their issue.

Zoe suggests that Emma can come sit with her and her friends at lunch. Jokingly, Natalia tells Zoe to stop trying to steal Emma. Is Emma the reason Natalia and Zoe have been fighting so much?