"Wow," she started. "That had to have been hard. Leaving friends behind from school and stuff," she added. His narrow eyes made her wince a bit and she looked down again. Several moments had passed before she finally got herself together enough to reply to him.
"Must have been a culture shock," Chloe half-joked, but she understood where he was coming from. It was the same reason why she left Ojai, to get away from everything and everyone that she knew after her family left her behind.