I was ready and as able bodied as any twenty-one year old.Spent many lonely nights dreaming of all those places in the world that were exotic.Enough o... the day dreaming, I had an interview for a day job on the following Monday morning.I had to live now, in a big reality, the reality that bites.As I was about to get up and walk to the bar, this handsome 6'3' guy walks up to me.His eyes were as dark as the night, his body was as rugged and strong as the tallest mountain. I wanted to resist this. Maybe she was really mad about the whole situation and was giving him the silent treatment. Conner walked into the bathroom. The scent of Gloria’s perfume still lingered in the air. He relieved himself in the toilet and walked back out to the front room. He picked up his cell phone. There was a text message waiting. How could he have missed it? Conner’s hands shook as he retrieved the message. It was short but got right to the point. Everything was abbreviated but Conner deciphered it. When it came time forme to leave Magnolia they gave me an open invitation to spend whatevertime I wished with them. Mrs. Greenwood hugged me crying and I did notknow how to react.She would playfully hit me with her apron and said, "Your just like Mr.Greenwood you don't know how to handle emotion."Headmaster Greenwood shook my hand hard and I gripped him just as hard.We look each other in the eye being almost the same stature and build.We look more like father and son than I did with my real. ”They started with an overview of the situation. Apparently there were at least four worlds with humans on it, although the place we were at, Crossroads, may or may not be a world as we knew it. All we knew of Crossroads was these few rooms and a belief that there were several other sets of rooms for other people like us. For all we knew Crossroads was just a cave under Kansas City. The big three, the three that mattered, were Earth, Cassandra, and Chaos. I knew all about Earth. Cassandra and.