Growing up, Isabella lived a relatively normal life. Her father was the director Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, so she spent a lot of her life in art museums learning how to draw, and take pictures. Her first five years he taught her 2 languages including Japanese and Italian, and had plans to teach her french as well. However, when he tried to do so, she ended up speaking to him entirely in french, so he obviously found no reason for that lesson. She was naturally gifted at musical instruments, such as the piano and violin. He enrolled her into a private school, where she was fine until 8th grade. Her teachers had complained about her stealing things from other students, and then when they confronted her about it, they said she would lie to them, telling them that she merely asked for the things and the students gave them to her. A sign of a rare power she had inherited from her mother, Charm Speak, had begun to show itself. That's when Ashton first started to suspect that Isabella would soon be in danger. He immediately moved to New York, in hopes to protect her.
That summer, when she was 13 years old, Isabella was walking home with her best friend, Logan. They were talking and laughing with each other before a hell hound emerged from the shadows. Isabella of course screamed her lungs out, and tried to get away. Logan grabbed her and tried to calm her down (Well as calm as he could make her in this position), telling her to take out the tube of lipstick her dad had given her and to take off the cap. Once she took it off, it revealed it's true form of celestial bronze and Logan instructed her how to use it, helping Isabella slay the beast. She put the cap back on, and obviously shaken up, returned home to her father where Ashton finally explained what she was and that her mother was the Goddess, Aphrodite. Logan explained to Isabella that he was her protector, and that she was to come with him to Camp Half blood were she would be safe. Isabella lived that summer in denial, and Ashton had argued repeatedly with Logan that he was not sending her to camp.
It only got worse from there. On top of her problems at school, she now had to deal with annual monsters that attacked her due to her "scent" that had peaked since she learned she was a demi god. She fought hellhounds, even fire breathing horses! Luckily, Logan taught her how to protect herself from them and kill them as best he could, and he continually tried to convince Ashton that the best place for her to learn was at the camp. Ashton always said no, he didn't want their bond to break. Finally when she was sixteen, Ashton had finally been convinced that Camp Half Blood was indeed the best place for her to go, and agreed to take her there. Logan would show them the way and help Isabella get comfortable.
Once they got to camp under Logan's guidance, Ashton walked the two up as far as the barrier would let him. Once the barrier stopped him from getting through, he gave her a locket with a picture of him and her mother inside. After a long a tearful goodbye, Isabella walked into the camp with Logan, leaving her father to return home. Two weeks later, she's settled in nicely. Sometimes it feels like she's just in some sort of dream and that she's still home with her dad, but then she realizes how lucky she is to be who she is. She's still trying to find her way in camp, but luckily has made a few friends along the way.