Secrets & Lies

Chapter Nine

"Alexander we have put you in everything available, but we need to make you more marketable. How far are you willing to go? Sam his agent asked.

"What do you mean?" Alex muttered confused.

"What I mean is that you have a natural ability and talent but what we need to do is hone these skills. Make you better! You could be a huge star Alexander." He explained.

"What will I have to do?" Alex sighed.

"Your English skills are good, but if they were better we could go international." Sam exclaimed.

"Are you telling me to take a break?" Alex asked confused.

"Not a complete break, but a short break from acting not modeling. I would like you to sign up for classes in English and acting. I will still get you modeling gigs so don't let yourself go you will need to stay in this muscular shape." Sam explained gesturing towards his chest.

"Where am I supposed to take these classes?" Alex asked.

"That is up to you, it doesn't really matter as long as you improve your skills." Sam explained.

Alex left his agents office and headed off to the pub to meet his friends.

"Alex how's it going?" Stefan hollered as Alex came into the bar.

"I need a beer!" Alex yelled back and headed to the bar. He returned to where they were sitting and joined in their football conversation.

"I'm signing up for college in the fall." Johan suddenly announced.

"Hey I was just thinking of doing the same thing." Alex said cheerily.

"I've decided to get away from Denmark and go to school in at Oxford." Johan explained.

"In England? Really? Why?" Alex asked.

"Exactly!  I just need to get away from here. Get out of my parent's house, besides there ought to be a ton of hot girls there." Johan explained.

"Sounds great sign me up!" Alex said excitedly.

"What about your job here?" Stefan asked.

"I'm going to take a break for a little while so I can work on my education." Alex explained.

"Really? I thought things where going so well for you?  I see your face everywhere I go these days." Johan said confused by this information.

"It was my agent's idea he thinks I need to make myself more marketable." Alex tried to make it sound easier than it was really going to be. "Plus I need to get away from my family for a while as well."

"Well here's to the two of you." Mats said raising his beer glass to his two friends who were going off to England without him.

It wasn't long before Alex was once again packing up his things to leave home. This time Alex was headed to England to study English land acting. It was an exciting yet sad time because he was leaving his family once again.

"Alexander no leave!" Lena cried as she held onto his leg.

"Lena baby I need to do this. I'm going to miss you very much but I will see you very soon." Alex tried to explain to her as she cried harder. Alex held her close and kissed the top of her pretty blond head before having to pass her back to their mother. Lena cried even harder making Alex feel bad for leaving his baby sister yet again.

Johan and Alex moved into a ground floor apartment near campus. It wasn't very nice but they each had a bedroom and their own bathroom. Other than the bedrooms there was a small main room and an even smaller kitchen. It came sparsely furnished which was helpful but because they were on the ground floor the apartment tended to be dark even during the day.

Classes were going well for Alex. His classes were very uneventful and they tended to be boring. Sam had kept his promise and set him up with several modeling jobs and a few commercials. Sam wanted to keep Alex in the main stream of things while he worked on his other skills. Johan had insisted on getting a car instead of taking the underground. He claimed he didn't trust the trains that traveled below the surface of the earth, that it just wasn't natural. Personally Alex thought he was afraid of the mice that roamed so freely in the Underground. It was nice in a way to have a car because it was convenient to get from one place to another, but totally unnecessary.