The Glass Elevator 
Autor: Carolina Fernandes | Publicado: 2012-08-16T12:52:00-07:00


It was twilight on a friday, when every office in the city
stops and the streets tends to empty out. Wearing cloaks and hiding myself in the
halls, I checked if there was anyone watching me, then I was ready to leave
that scaring tall building. I was so frightened that I didn’t see the elevator
arriving, as well as the people who was inside it. I just got in there
whispering &nbsp;to myself and praying not to be seen by anyone else.


A few minutes later, the
elevator suddenly stopped and the lights went off &nbsp;throughout the city. Luckily, it was a glass
elevator, so it wasn’t so dark at all. So, for the first time, I could see
other people faces.&nbsp;&nbsp;The first one I looked seemed familiar to
me. He was a handsome forty-year
old and he was carrying a suspicious black bag. There was another man, but he
looked younger and not so concerned about the elevator. In fact, he appeared to
be there by coincidence. Then, there was a pregnant woman who was very anxious,
but I didn’t know if she was apprehensive because of the elevator or if she did
something wrong or illegal on the top floors. Finally, there was me, a twenty
six-year-old single woman who received a call&nbsp;&nbsp;from my doctor to be
in his office at that time, but nobody answered the door.


&nbsp;Suddenly, a screen appeared in
the glass, and then it started to show a tape of a frightening ventricle doll
riding a bike. He said: “Good evening. Now, you are going to play some games. First
of all, I have the pleasure to say that Mr. Kyle is with us”. The
forty-year-old guy started to sweat. “You, Mr. Kyle, are so dumb and selfish that you came running after
received a business phone call. In fact, it wasn’t a very honest business at
all, was it? You are paid to seduce women and then&nbsp;&nbsp;take their money.
However, you don’t even know who are these women, you only go there and do your
job. So, I’m proud to present you one of them: Julie Cooper!”. The pregnant
woman almost passed out, but the younger man prevented her from falling. The
ventricle doll continued: “Julie Cooper was a perfect wife and mother. One day,
she was upset with her life and she started to remember that time when she had
all the men she wanted. Suddenly, a handsome blond man appeared in her way, so
she told her husband she was going to sleep in her mother’s
house.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nevertheless, we all know she spent the night with another
guy, and as a result he took all her money and until today her husband thinks
he’s going to be a father for the third time. Bad girl!”.&nbsp;

That story made no sense to me, but then I remembered everything. It was
the forty- year-old guy who I met in a party three months ago, but his hair was
so different at that moment that I would never recognize him. However, he was
so handsome and I was so drunk that it was no big deal for me when I woke up in
a smelly apartment without my purse. I thought I had lost it in the party, so I
returned to that place to try to find it. I never thought about that man anymore,
but two months later I discovered I was pregnant. I decided not to have that
baby, because my life was so in the fast lane that I didn’t even know who the
father was. I was going to see the doctor and that’s why I was wearing a loose
smock. Then, the doll started to talk about my life, saying I was so spoiled
that I didn’t know how to enjoy life.


In addiction, he said: “You are
so pathetic that there are people dying in front of you and you can’t see it
because you’re living in a fairy tale”. Finally, he said: “Mr. Kyle, you don’t
even know who your boss is, do you? So, there he is! George Gallagher, a
brilliant young mind behind the dirty business. Shame on you! You could be a
better person, but you decided to be rich and mean instead. Now, you have to pay your bills.”
The young man was so angry that he almost broke the screen, but the tape
continued: “So, Mr. Kyle, that’s why you’re so dumb: You think there is money
in the bag, but actually there is a bomb. So, you have to decide between explode
and break the glass, falling in the ground after.” There was panic and screams
everywhere. However, I was good in climbing, so I could make a rope of people
clothes and I went down to a height where other people could see
me.&nbsp;&nbsp;Luckily,&nbsp;a security guard saw me and called the police.
Thirty minutes later, Mr. Kyle and George Gallagher were arrested and I decided
to keep the baby. Nevertheless, the person behind that evil game was never
found.&nbsp;



* Written in 2007. A few erros in grammar may be found.&nbsp;