Prologue1: Ups and downs.

Life is not really something any one can guess before it actually happens. It is full of unwanted turns and unknown twists.

Life sometimes throw things we can not catch up with. It'd happen. With every one. For everyone.

Imagine a giant wheel, and Alexandra was at the very top of it and Logan was somewhere in the middle.

And then it happened. Someone said, spin. The switch was on and the giant wheel started with a loud screech.

It started to spin and spin and spin. Round and round and round and round, it went.

Head spinning, stomach twisting, they both came to a stop.

She looked down. She was at the very bottom. He looked up and the sky was closer to his hand.

And their life changed at that moment.

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(Logan - seven years ago)

Sweaty bodies. ✔

One too many people in a small dorm room. ✔

Cheap coffee. ✔

Mattress the texture of rock. And ✔

He stared at the laptop in front of him, the one that he had borrowed from Daniel. It was old, troublesome, and was on the verge of extinction. But it was the only one he could afford. For free.

As he typed an essay about cost effective ways to build a monument, he looked around himself and promised himself that one day or the other, he would live the life. The one Matt Evans and Daniel Anderson and Finley Collins lived.

Except Daniel, the other two always had a snooty look on their faces as if they were above Logan and Logan hated it, hated that look of superiority. He hated to be looked down.

One day... He wanted to look down. Not at people, but at the world.

And maybe, at Finley and Matt. He would give anything to do that. To be in that place.

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(Logan - four years ago)

"You are a newbie. How can we trust you to build our home with the same precision and quality as the other already established builders would do?" The man was tall, his voice stern.

Logan had heard these lines more than enough time to say it in his sleep. But he knew the answer to it, as well, one he sincerely believed in.

Ones he hoped this man would believe, too.

"Because I want to grow, to go far. They are already in a place they can't go up. Me, I want to go up and so I will work harder than anyone, to show you, to show everyone that I can. That I am good enough to be here. That I deserve to be here." Logan's voice was sincere.

"Hmm." The man looked at him, his eyes narrowed. "You will do. Go on, impress me." He said with a small nod.

Logan smiled at him. This here was his first opportunity and he wanted to put everything he have in it. This here was the starting point to all his dreams.

"Thank you." Logan said.

"Don't thank me yet. Thank me when I am completely amazed by what you did for me. I am only paying you if I am satisfied with the house, young man." The man said with a wink. "If you do impress me --and let me warn you, I am hard to impress-- I can promise you a place in this world."

"Yes sir." Logan said.

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