Suspense+-+Spiderman

=Spiderman =

= =  Have you ever been in the shower then the lights go off? Like you are all alone and start panicking? Well, that was how I felt yesterday. It was 9:30 pm when I got into the elevator and after about fifty seconds, the electricity suddenly went off. One second it was on and then all of a sudden the lights just disappeared. I tried the emergency button on the elevator. Of course it didn't work. Then I tried my cell phone. Of course that didn't work either. I looked at my watch again. Now it was 9:40 pm. I was starting to get scared. What if nobody knew I was here? What if the elevator suddenly fell down the shaft? What if???

I was getting too carried away. I sat down and tried to calm down. It didn't work. I was now officially starting to hyperventilate. So much for calming down. I suddenly remembered a movie I saw a few days before, when a girl was stuck in an elevator and then saw a small door at the top of the elevator. I looked up. There was a door! Now there was another problem. I was too short. I jumped. I didn't even get close. I tried standing on my toes. That didn't work either. Then, in the corner of the elevator, where I never had never seen anything before, I saw a box.

When I put it under the small door and stood on it, I could reach it. I opened the door and climbed up and out of the elevator. I looked up. There was not another elevator door in sight. It was also very dark. I pushed the button on my watch to make the watch light up. It only gave a feeble ray and it reminded me to look at the time. It was 9:45 pm. Then I surveyed my surroundings. There was nothing at all that could help me. I decided to look down instead of up.

That wasn't a very smart thing to do. Below me was a vast, dark, never-ending, hole. It was like an open mouth ready to swallow me if the elevator dropped or if I accidentally fell down. I backed up to the center of the elevator surface. Then, out of nowhere, I heard loud and heavy footsteps. Cliched footsteps; footsteps that I was used to hearing in a movie.

I froze like a deer caught in headlights. I didn't know what to do. I wracked my brain to think of what the heroine would do in the movie. I came up with nothing. The one time that I couldn't think of anything had to be at that moment when I was in possible danger of ending up in bloody scraps all over the floor for cockroaches to eat. Great. Just Great.

I groped around in the darkness to see if there was anything that I could use to climb up the elevator shaft. Then I felt something hard and metallic. I tried to grab the whole thing with my hand. It worked. I tried pulling it. It seemed sturdy enough. I tried to put my weight on it. It didn't snap. So I threw my purse onto my shoulder and I started climbing. Then I heard the same footsteps, this time they sounded even closer.

The footsteps echoed like they were on a ladder. I looked to my left. Oh. There was a ladder. I slid down the rope, and then walked as softly as I could to the ladder so the 'footsteps' wouldn't hear me. Now I had another difficulty. My heels were going to make noise. So I sadly took off my heels and left them on the elevator top. I swore that if I survived this, I would come back for my favorite heels.

I climbed up. Exercising at the gym was good for something after all. I climbed up the ladder rungs. I knew how Spiderman felt when he walked on the side of a building. It was fun. Then, all of a sudden, I saw a light coming from above. Had I gone to heaven without knowing it? Did I fall down the ladder without realizing it? Maybe not. I saw my mom's head peek through the light.

Relief flooded through me like a giant wave. I was saved! I climbed up the ladder faster than 5piderman could have and poked my head through the elevator door.

"There you are! Where have you been for the last 27 minutes and 47 seconds?" my mom asked.

"In the elevator. It was stuck," I answered.

"It was never stuck. It was working fine all along. I just used it a minute I ago," she replied.

"Really? I also heard footsteps behind me when I was climbing up the elevator." I said, beginning to feel dazed.

"Yes. Now, don't ever try a stunt like that ever again. Let's go back to the condo."

"Ok."

Now, I am sitting in front of my computer, writing about yesterday. I still wonder what happened in that elevator and who made it happen. If I was lucky, it would never happen to me again. If I was not, well, I'd better learn more about elevators, just in case.