When I was a kid, my family hosted an exchange student, and it turned out to be a phenomenal experience for me. He and I became best of friends and remain in contact today through the wonderful world of e-mail.
With that in mind, and having shared these experiences with my wife, I wanted us to serve as hosts and turn it into a family tradition of sorts. After all, Luis (the exchange student) attended our wedding, and has come to visit us with his wife and kids on two occasions. We wanted our daughter to enjoy the same experience.
Being Catholics, we decided a "catholic" exchange student service would be the most appropriate and trouble free. After months and months of paperwork back and forth, Gabriela came to us from Brazil. She was absolutely the sweetest girl I had ever met. Smart as a whip (during her semester here she got straight "A's" in all her classes including English. Very sociable, polite, basically, it could not have been a more pleasant experience. Our daughter Heather got along fabulously with her, and remain close friends to this date.
Gabriela left us in December and we stayed in touch through the internet. She finished high school in Sao Paolo and won a Fullbright Scholarship. All of us where elated for her.
As soon as she reached Tulane in August, we received her new e-address at school, as well as her cell number, and a desperate plea to go visit her as soon as we could. Seeing as how we would be dropping Heather off at Loyola two days later, we decided to surprise her.
After going through parent orientation, and moving everything into Heather's seventh floor room, my wife suggested that while she and Heather settle in, that I go pick up Gabriella. Done deal.
I got my bearings, and ventured to the other college campus. Once there, I finally located her dormitory and the front desk gave me her room number. When I made it to her room and knocked on the door, I heard "it's open", so I let myself in. There in front of me stood the absolutely most beautiful creature I had ever seen. Facing away from the door, about 5'9", with a deep, dark, rich tan, long black hair reaching the mid-back, an ass that just made you want to go and touch & squeeze it and play with it all day, I mean the globes were perfect, and legs, ahhhhh, legs to die for, long and perfectly sculpted, all en cased in nothing but the wee tiniest of g-strings, or more like thread. I was awestruck. After a few milliseconds, the creature turned around and when she saw me, covered her breasts, (which for the short glimpse I was allowed also looked marvelous), smirked, and asked who the hell I was.
Of course I stuttered.
"A a, umh, I'm Michael Grayson."
"Yeah, soooo?"
"Oh, uhh, I'm sorry, I was told Gabriella Pichao lived here."
"She's at the beach"
"Oh, OK, thanks," and turned around and exited just as dumbstruck as I had been moments earlier. When I got about twenty feet away…
"Hey Mike whatever your name is…."
"Yes"
"You know where the "beach" is?"
"Don't have the slightest"
She laughed and told me to wait.
She came out a minute later with shorts and something today's kids call t-shirts, but leave the whole midriff in plain sight.
"I'm Amanda, Gabriella's roommate," she said as she leaned over and kissed my cheek. "You look lost".
Lost of course was an understatement.
"You have no idea".
"You must be the family she tells me about all the time…the one she stayed with when she came last year."
"That's us, I mean we, uhh, I mean yes. Whatever."
She laughed.
"Look, I really am sorry I barged in on you like that, it's just that I'm certain I heard you say the door was open."
"It's OK, really. I thought it was my neighbor. DON'T WORRY, no big deal, OK???"
"You sure?"
"Positive"
With that, we grabbed the elevator downward and Amanda, told me her life story in the three minutes it took us to get to the "beach". She was from Costa Rica, and instead of rooming with an American, she decided a native Spanish speaker would ease the transition to college life. Unbeknownst to college housing, Brazilians speak Portuguese, never the less, both were getting along just fine. She had graduated from an American school where she had learned the very good English she was speaking to me. When I asked her if she too was on scholarship, she said her family was VERY wealthy and she didn't need one.
The "beach" was the dormitory terrace that looked out unto the campus. It was rather sizable, jammed with kids in different stages of undress. "There she is, right at the corner."
I looked over to where Amanda was pointing and all I saw was the back of chaise lounge chair with a towel draped over it's back. As I made my way, I couldn't help but stare at the beauty that surrounded me. Not a one piece in sight. It was basically a smorgasbord for any taste. Big tits, small tits, short girls, tall girls even African American girls where sunbathing. Incredible.
There were guys, but they were outnumbered easily 10 to 1. After stepping over a few bodies, I reached my destination. This time, I wanted to make sure everything was copasetic, so I called out, "Gabbi?"
Nothing.
"Gabriella?" a little louder.
She slowly cocked her head sideways, lowered her sunglasses, and shouted, "Oh my God, Mr. Grayson!!!!!" and jumped up to hug me. As she held me tightly, she couldn't stop talking.
"I can't believe it! You're here! I've missed you so much. Thank you thank you thank you. This is the best surprise ever!"
Gabriella gathered her belongings and we started back to her room. She knew that Heather had applied to Loyola, but didn't know what she had finally decided. I told her that when we found out that she would be at Tulane, we decided to surprise her with Heather's college decision, and surprised she was.
"You mean you, Heather and Mrs. Grayson are here in New Orleans, right now?"
"Absolutely. And I was sent to pick you up so we could get something to eat, what do you say?
"What do I say???? Give me a break…..let me shower and let's get out of here."
As we walked I couldn't help but notice little Gabriella wasn't the little innocent high schooler I had last seen almost a year ago. Before we left the beach she put a skimpy little skirt over a miniscule g-string she was wearing "to get the best tan". I mean, an eye-patch has more material, capiche? And the top, ahhhhh. She didn't have huge breasts. After all, she was kind of short and big boobs would have been disproportionate, you know? I would say they were about a 32 or 34B, which, with that 5'5" body, was just fine. The top covered her areolas perfectly, and that was it. Her jet-black hair and gorgeous light brown eyes all combined to make her stunning. Her best feature, by far was her ass though. As she turned around to put the skirt on, she gave me a view I knew I would be beating off to for many many nights to come. Imagine a perky ass, no stretch marks, no cellulite, the color of copper, no jiggle to it, nothing. Just two perfect orbs. I immediately fell in lust.
We passed several students on the way up to her room, and while we caught up with each other's lives, she paused for a second, "Mr. Grayson, can I ask you a HUGE favor, PLEASE???"
"Sure Gabbi, what's up?"
"Can we take my roommate? She's really nice, really homesick, her boyfriend's already cheating on her back home, and I don't want to leave her alone, OK? I mean she can pay for her dinner, it's just that I feel sorry for her, you know?"
"Gabbi, any friends of yours are considered friends of ours as well. Plus, I already met Amanda."
I told her
part
of the story and agreed to take them both.
All three girls hit it off perfectly, laughing and carrying about like they had known each other for years. We had a great dinner, and afterwards the girls asked if we could just leave them in the French Quarter and catch up the following day.
Long story short, after two days in New Orleans, Patty and I headed back home thrilled that our daughter already had a mini-emotional support network.
Heather decided to stay in town for Thanksgiving, which trust me, broke Patty's and my heart. Of course after reviewing November's phone bill, I saw the collect call on Thanksgiving Day from Padre Island, Texas. Youth.
After Thanksgiving, my wife was going basically nuts climbing the walls counting the days 'till Heather came home from college. After a phone call with Heather in early December, my wife decided to invite Amanda and Gabriella to spend the holidays with us. Gabbi couldn't afford to go home for Christmas and Amanda had broken up with her boyfriend and didn't want to go back and bump into him, plus, she wanted to see snow.
I'm still not sure if my wife bounced the idea off my head, or just told me we would have two houseguests for a month, but regardless, I was thrilled to have my little girl back home.
Unlike many, I love Christmas. I mean, I was the kid who watched Perry Como and Bing Crosby Christmas specials religiously every December with my family. Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer were the first tapes I bought my daughter. I couldn't careless about the traffic, or the congestion at the malls. I just love Christmas.