My BFF is an Alien

Arthur Rhodes knows hes different. Severely OCD he dreams of popularity and Ashley Green a girl who wont even look at him. His older brother Keith was in the Army. Hes currently at home taking out all his PTSD-induced rage on Arthur. Arthurs mother is rarely home. She donates all her time to veterans organizations. His father an anally-retentive Major in the Marine Corps is currently head of security at Ames Research Center. Between his OCD and his family life Arthurs only friend is Emilio Luna who has Tourette Syndrome. Emilios symptoms are twitching and inappropriate outbursts. Arthur barely notices his friends idiosyncrasies. As a pair theyve suffered torture bullying and ostracizing through every level of school since Arthurs family moved to the Silicon Valley. When Arthurs military father forces him to go camping Emilio accompanies him. A space pod crashes in the deep woods on Mt. Shasta and the two sixteen-year-old boys discover Tonigen Dweezil Emyris a cryonically preserved young Nysian from the Cygnus system. They take the alien home and defrost him and thats when their entire lives begin to change.