*insert groovy elevator music here* [chap/nora]
Jun 10, 2021 17:12:05 GMT -5
Post by brad bradford ★ d5b [arx] on Jun 10, 2021 17:12:05 GMT -5
chad chapman.
It always looked so easy on television. They walk in, they press a button, and they get off exactly where they're meant to be. Something tells me I've made it far more difficult for myself than it actually is—I tend to do that sort of thing without realizing. I'm sure Gav could've figured this out. I miss him.
I push another button because I'm pretty sure I'm not moving. And maybe I'm a little impatient when it only glows and dings at me, so I press another. And maybe I get distracted by the music they've got playing and press a bunch more to match the beat, but I mean, why make a button and expect no one to push it, right? So there's no way I can break it or anything- "Whoa!"
I latch onto the hand rail as the tiny metal box screeches and comes to a stop—no, yeah, it's definitely not moving now.
"Uh ohhh," I chuckle nervously to myself as everything goes silent.
I talk myself through my options—each of which includes Gav so I've gotta scrap them all. Okay, alright, well- I'm big. Er, I mean, the elevator feels like it's getting smaller and all I've got to offer it are thumbs big enough to fuck up elevator buttons and arms roughly the size of a- ohmygod, my arms! They've got beef, ha! Genius, duh.
It takes practically all I've got just to open the soors far enough for- well, Gav, to fit through if he were here. But all that fits through the space I've created is my head—so I smile real big when I see the tops of someone's shoes.
"Please! Hi, please, hi, can you help me? I um- I'm trying to get to Floor 5 and- wait, is this Floor 5?" I disappear for a moment to check if the elevator had told me where I was when I'd been freaking out. Twelve. Oh, am I at the top? Cool. "Nope! Sorry, anyway, I can just wait if you don't know how these things work, no big deal, but-" I try to find a way to make myself fit through the gap to no avail. "If you did know, and like could help," I make sure they can see the finger gun I offer by ducking my head out of the way to do it. "That would also be pret-ty cool."
"i wonder if you look both ways when you cross my mind."