Awake by Matthew Blake

Author:Matthew Blake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Matthew Blake
Published: 2016-02-28T23:00:00+00:00

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On the ferry ride back, Lee nodded off lightly, the drone of the boat’s engine relaxing him. Ivy sat at his side with her head resting on his shoulder, holding his hand. They barely said anything for the entire ride, but it felt like a fleeting perfect moment. As he sat there, half-asleep, he wished that it would last forever.

Nothing does last forever though, and soon they were back on the docks where they’d started. They got off the boat, made a short walk to the road, and flagged down another cab.

“Empire State building, please,” Lee told the young Latino driver when they were in.

“Sure thing boss,” the driver said in an educated western accent, surprising Lee.

Not being able to hear the others in the back, he chatted with the driver on the way, and found that the man was a former Seattleite who’d moved over a decade previously. The man was a wealth of information about the city, and by the time they got to the building, Lee knew exactly where to go to, as well as having some great tips for places to eat later.

The lobby level of the building was like a mall, filled with popular stores, restaurants, banks and the like. Following the cabbie’s directions, he led the group to the line to buy observation deck tickets.

They bought tickets for both the lower and upper observation decks, and were corralled into the elevators. No one could see much of a reason to go to the lower deck first, so they went directly up to the top floor of the building, the 102nd floor.

To everyone’s surprise, an older gentleman in an old-fashioned red uniform greeted them as the elevator doors opened. “Welcome to the tallest point in the city!” he said and gestured them onto the deck.

The deck was surprisingly small. Luckily there were only a dozen other people there; Lee thought that with thirty or so people the place would be uncomfortably cramped.

“Oh wow,” Ivy said when they looked out the windows at the city below them.

“It’s an amazing view,” Lee said. He knew that they weren’t as high up as they had been in Sears Tower, but he couldn’t tell, from where he was standing.

“Look, there’s Macy’s,” Stella said, as excited as Lee had ever heard her.

“Jesus, you can see everything,” Ben said. He pointed, “Look, there’s a bunch of people lying on blankets in that park over there.”

Sure enough Lee could see people sprawled out and relaxing in the park. “That’s cool, they’re so tiny looking,” he said. He pointed out over the water. “There’s the Statue of Liberty again.”

“It looks so much smaller from here. I can’t believe we were just in it a little bit ago,” Ivy said.

They enjoyed the view for another half an hour, and then got on the elevator to go down to the 86th floor, where the second observation deck was, figuring that they might as well check it out since it was included in their tickets. They

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