The Lift Incident

Jeremy stood in one corner of the lift chewing his chewing gum and wearing a denim jacket, unzipped and a white shirt which was almost transparent under that fashionable jacket. I admit, he looked handsome but a lot scarier than a man handsome. I stood in another corner of the lift to prevent any kind of conversation with him.

I took out my phone started to look into it and Suddenly the lights of the lift started to flicker on about the 14th floor and suddenly the lift stopped on the fifteenth floor. But to my amusement, the door didn't open. I looked at Jeremy but he doesn't seem to be bothered by it. He was just listening to the songs which were being played on his earphones. I thought that might be for a second until suddenly, the lift started to go down recklessly at a very high speed. Due to the trembling of the lift as it started to go down I screamed my lungs out and got a tight grip on the handle of the lift. The lights were still flickering. I got a glimpse of Jeremy for some seconds, he was all calm like he was not scared or he didn't even bother to be scared. I thought this might end somewhere and the lift will stop but God was having his own fun, suddenly the lights went off. 

I knew my trauma was healed but not that perfectly. I still have those dreams out of nowhere and I still was afraid of violence and darkness. As the lights went off I squat down and closed my eyes tightly keeping both hands-on my ears, the lift was still falling down.

****

Here everyone panicked as just after Sarah and Jeremy went in two electricians came with an employee,

'So this is the lift you were talking about?' Asked the employee pointing on the same lift in which Sarah and Jeremy just now went up. 

'Yes, sir this is that lift.' Said the electrician.

'Then why is it still in order!!?' Screamed the employee, 'Don't you think it could be harmful to the people who might get in without knowing the issues about this lift.' Said the employee.

Just after that the receptionist came and said that a girl just went in and gradually the whole office gathered in front of the lift.

After a while when people were still discussing what to do, Mr. Niall arrived. He saw hundreds of people standing in front of the lift.

'What are you all doing here?!!' He said in his apoplexy.

All the staff got scared because no one knew what Mr. Niall could do when he is angry. Everyone, almost everyone hated him and those who supported him were just buttering him and Mr. Niall knew that. So, he kept a distance from everyone.

'Answer Me!!' He screamed again when he got no response.

'Sir, there is one girl stuck in this lift and one knows where this lift has stuck.' Said the employee in a quavering voice.

'Who's stuck in there?' Asked Mr. Niall and they all said they don't know who the person was.

'We got it!' Came the electricians screaming and running out of a room towards the lift.

'We found it!' One of them said and as soon as they saw Mr. CEO standing they all lowered their voice.

'The...lift...is on..the minus two floors.' He said and lowered his eyes.

'Oh! now I remember, who was it. The girl who came yesterday too for the interview. The one with dark brown hair.' Said the receptionist standing somewhere in the crowd.

As soon as Niall heard this voice he didn't even bother to see who said and ran towards the stairs. He ran like a mad man and no one knew why he did so, but almost all the people ran after him towards the staircase and the electricians ran towards the lift's control room.

**** 

After almost thirty minutes the electricians were finally successful to open the lift and as soon as the gate opened everyone saw the lift was pitch dark because it was on minus two floors. But everyone stood in shock when they saw inside the lift.

There were obviously two people Sarah and Jeremy but what all the people standing outside the lift saw, no one had a word to say about it.

Jeremy was sitting beside Sarah, hugging her tightly and Sarah just sat there in the arms of Jeremy closing her eyes. Her hands were still on her ears. What was this scenario? Everyone thought. As soon as Jeremy saw the liftgate has opened he stood up and gave Sarah his hand to stand up. She stood up holding his hand and after they stood far away from each other.

Everyone especially ladies started gossiping and some were smirking. Sarah got out of the lift feeling ashamed and scared of what just happened.

'Ms. Brown, in my cabin.' Said Niall looking at her holding a deadly gaze and Sarah looked down.

'Now!!' He screamed and her body shivered in fear again.

****

'Come in.' He said with blank expressions.

I came in and stood in front of him looking down towards the floor in fear.

'So, I thought you came here to work.' He said again with blank expressions and a dead voice.

'Yes, sir but..' I said

'Shut up!!' He interrupted me screaming and took a deep breath. I looked up a bit, he was standing in front of me leaning on his desk. His eyes were red in anger. He looked very scary.

'No ifs and buts Ms. Brown. This is a working place and not your house. If you want to do such stuff then you can leave, the doors are open.' He said.

I stood there still looking down. No one ever scolded me like that, never. My eyes got filled and I felt so ashamed of myself for the first time. I never thought that my first day would be the worst day of my life. I never thought that one day people will think that I'm such a low living woman. On the way to this cabin, I heard many whispers and many people laughing at me. What should I do now? How will resolve this? I was all messed up.

'Ms. Brown!' He screamed and broke my meditation. 

'Are you even listening?' He said further. I looked up and he was looking at me. 

'You may leave now, and please try not to come in front of me all day as much as possible. I don't want to ruin my mood again and again.' He said and took the phone and went outside.

I, not knowing what to do just went outside and sat on my table just in front of Mr. Niall's cabin on which my nameplate was already kept.

And then Emma came to me...