MidReal Story
Chapter One Alex Alex stared out the window of his hotel room at the darkened city beyond. The room was neat and quiet, and it had all the things he needed, like a desk and a clean bed. But it wasn’t home. He’d only been in London for a few days, but he missed his own bed. He missed knowing where the grocery store was, and what the weather was going to be like. He missed not having to worry about getting lost. He heard the sound of running water and turned around to see Max coming out of the bathroom, toweling his hair dry. Alex looked up at him, not sure what to say. All he knew was that Max was a lot more than he’d bargained for. “Are you going to come with me?” Max asked, tossing the towel onto the bed. “Are you sure we’re allowed to leave?” Max nodded. “The desk clerk said we just have to be back by nine.” “Okay.” Alex wasn’t sure if that meant they had to be back in their hotel room by nine, or if they had to be back in the hotel itself by nine, but he didn’t really care, either. All he knew was that he had no intention of going back into the city after dark. Max smiled as he sat down on the edge of the bed and started putting on his socks. “What’s wrong? You sound nervous.” “I’m not used to big cities,” Alex admitted. “Where do you live?” “Greenville.” It was a small town about an hour outside of Columbus. “Oh,” Max said. “I’ve heard of it. I think there’s a pizza place there.” “You mean Antonio’s?” Max nodded. “Yeah, that’s the one.” “It’s not bad.” Max laughed. “That’s high praise.” Alex didn’t know what to say. He’d already told Max that he grew up on a farm, so it wasn’t like he was trying to pretend he knew more about city life than he actually did. But from the way Max was looking at him, he felt like maybe there was something else going on that he wasn’t getting. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I don’t mean to be rude.” Max shrugged. “It’s no big deal. I’m sorry if I gave you a hard time about it.” He gave Alex a playful grin as he stood up and started putting on his shoes. “I’m just used to being around people who don’t have a lot of experience with…well, anything. They never seem to know what’s going on, and it gets kind of annoying after a while.” Alex had a feeling that Max wasn’t just talking about people who lived in small towns. He had a feeling that Max wasn’t just talking about people, period. But there was no way for him to know for sure, so he didn’t say anything. Max stood up and looked out the window at the cityscape beyond. “The desk clerk said there’s a park across the street from here,” he said. “Do you want to check it out?” Alex had been in a park before, but it hadn’t been anything like what Max was describing. “What’s so special about it?” “There are lots of parks in London, but this one has something none of the others do.” “What’s that?” Max turned around and grinned at Alex. “Adventure.” Alex wasn’t sure what Max meant by that, but he followed him out of the room anyway.
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Chapter One
Alex
Alex stared out the window of his hotel room at the darkened city beyond. The room was neat and quiet, and it had all the things he needed, like a desk and a clean bed. But it wasn’t home. He’d only been in London for a few days, but he missed his own bed. He missed knowing where the grocery store was, and what the weather was going to be like. He missed not having to worry about getting lost.
He heard the sound of running water and turned around to see Max coming out of the bathroom, toweling his hair dry. Alex looked up at him, not sure what to say. All he knew was that Max was a lot more than he’d bargained for.
“Are you going to come with me?” Max asked, tossing the towel onto the bed.
“Are you sure we’re allowed to leave?”
Max nodded. “The desk clerk said we just have to be back by nine.”
“Okay.” Alex wasn’t sure if that meant they had to be back in their hotel room by nine, or if they had to be back in the hotel itself by nine, but he didn’t really care, either. All he knew was that he had no intention of going back into the city after dark.
Max smiled as he sat down on the edge of the bed and started putting on his socks. “What’s wrong? You sound nervous.”
“I’m not used to big cities,” Alex admitted.
“Where do you live?”
“Greenville.” It was a small town about an hour outside of Columbus.
“Oh,” Max said. “I’ve heard of it. I think there’s a pizza place there.”
“You mean Antonio’s?”
Max nodded. “Yeah, that’s the one.”
“It’s not bad.”
Max laughed. “That’s high praise.”
Alex didn’t know what to say. He’d already told Max that he grew up on a farm, so it wasn’t like he was trying to pretend he knew more about city life than he actually did. But from the way Max was looking at him, he felt like maybe there was something else going on that he wasn’t getting.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I don’t mean to be rude.”
Max shrugged. “It’s no big deal. I’m sorry if I gave you a hard time about it.” He gave Alex a playful grin as he stood up and started putting on his shoes. “I’m just used to being around people who don’t have a lot of experience with…well, anything. They never seem to know what’s going on, and it gets kind of annoying after a while.”
Alex had a feeling that Max wasn’t just talking about people who lived in small towns. He had a feeling that Max wasn’t just talking about people, period. But there was no way for him to know for sure, so he didn’t say anything.
Max stood up and looked out the window at the cityscape beyond. “The desk clerk said there’s a park across the street from here,” he said. “Do you want to check it out?”
Alex had been in a park before, but it hadn’t been anything like what Max was describing. “What’s so special about it?”
“There are lots of parks in London, but this one has something none of the others do.”
“What’s that?”
Max turned around and grinned at Alex. “Adventure.”
Alex wasn’t sure what Max meant by that, but he followed him out of the room anyway.
Max was right. The park across the street from their hotel was like nothing Alex had ever seen before. It was huge, and it was filled with all kinds of trees and flowers. But what really made it special was all of the stuff to look at. There were statues and fountains and signs telling people about the history of the place. All around them, there were people walking and laughing and talking to each other, and the air was filled with all kinds of music from people playing guitars and trumpets and violins.
“This is really something,” Alex said. “It’s nothing like the park in my town.”
Max smiled. “There’s no place like London.”
Alex had to agree. It was amazing how different everything was here. He’d never been out of Ohio before, so he didn’t have a lot to compare it to, but he knew that this place was special.
Max started walking deeper into the park, and Alex hurried to catch up with him.
“Where are we going?” he asked.
“On an adventure,” Max replied.
“An adventure?”
Max nodded. “Yeah. When I was little, my parents used to take me on adventures all the time. We’d go places we’d never been before, and we’d explore everything we could find.”
“Like what?”
Alex asked.
“One time, we took a boat ride down the Amazon River,” Max said.
“We saw monkeys and alligators and even some people who were living in huts right along the shore.”
“Really?”
Alex asked.
Max nodded.
“It was amazing.”
“That sounds pretty cool,” Alex said.
“It was.” Max turned around and smiled at him.
“That’s why I like taking people on adventures now.
